Laila Rouass then creative head of the channel, Shamin Desai. After moving back to the UK, Rouass became famous for playing the role of Bollywood actress Amber Gates in the cult ITV1 series "Footballers' Wives" between 2004 and 2006 and, albeit briefly, on the ITV2 spin-off series "". She also played recurring roles on the British soaps "Family Affairs" and "Hollyoaks", as well as appearing in episodes of "I Dream", "Casualty" and "Meet the Magoons". She starred alongside Meera Syal in the television adaptation of Syal's novel, "Life Isn't All Ha Ha Hee Hee." Rouass was ranked No.87 and No.69 on FHM
Brian Wilde major television success was in 1970 as refuse depot manager "Bloody Delilah" in the ITV sitcom "The Dustbinmen". He showed his sinister side as the mischievous magician Mr Peacock in the children's drama series "Ace of Wands" between 1970 and 1972. That year he starred as a murderer in "The Uninvited", an episode of the BBC's supernatural thriller series "Out of the Unknown". Also in 1971, in the television drama "Elizabeth R", Wilde played the efficient, merciless 'rackmaster' Richard Topcliffe, who was charged with the torture of prisoners in the Tower of London. He played a character in the 1970s