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
Laila Rouass Feast" (2004), and in 2006 she was cast in Aditya Raj Kapoor's film "Don't Stop Dreaming". Rouass also appeared in the independent British film "Shoot on Sight" (2007) opposite Brian Cox, Om Puri and Sadie Frost. In 2008, she appeared in two films, "Freebird" and the New Zealand funded "Apron Strings". In 1990, Rouass married Abdeslam Rouass in Tower Hamlets, London. They divorced in 2003. She went through a religious ceremony in 2005 with Nasir Khan, a businessman, however the two never legally married. In October 2006, Rouass saw a doctor regarding back pains only to find she was six