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
Monroe (TV series) Monroe (TV series) Monroe is a British medical drama television series created and written by Peter Bowker and produced by Mammoth Screen for the ITV network. The series follows a neurosurgeon named Gabriel Monroe, played by James Nesbitt. The six-part series was commissioned by ITV as one of a number of replacements for its long-running police drama series "The Bill", which was cancelled in 2010. Filming on "Monroe" began in Leeds in September 2010, with production based in the old Leeds Girls' High School in Headingley. The first episode was broadcast on ITV on 10 March 2011 to strong ratings.