Laila Rouass one of the presenters of "The Channel 4 TV Book Club". She participated in the seventh series of "Strictly Come Dancing", a BBC One reality show, paired with professional dancer Anton Du Beke, and alongside "Footballers' Wives" co-star Zöe Lucker. The pair made it to the last four before being voted off the show on 6 December. She failed to show up for the final on 19 December to reprise her partnership with Anton Du Beke. The show's host, Bruce Forsyth, offered no reason for her absence although he did do so for the other missing celebrity, Phil Tufnell, who
Adam Gates crews to ever wear a suit to work”. The projections can be seen on the live Primus DVD “Halluciogenetics”. Gates played the character of bass player Steve "Aiwass" Hampton Trouzdale in Claypool's film "Electric Apricot" Gates played Keyboards, Guitar and sang for the SF Bay Area band MIRV. The band (with line up Marc “MIRV” Haggard, Craig McFarland and Jeff Gomes) played local San Francisco shows to MIRV’s considerable home following and toured nationally with Les Claypool. The band would record one album with Gates (The Million Pound Bomb) which remains unreleased. Gates formally left MIRV in 2006. With bassist/engineer