Palmer worked on the first series of "OK TV" with Fiona Phillips in 1999. In the first episode of the series she was shown at a beauty salon where she got her hair shampooed and interviewed Lindsay Coulson, who played her fictional mother Carol Jackson in EastEnders. In 1999, Palmer made a cameo appearance as herself in an episode of Kathy Burke's sitcom, "Gimme Gimme Gimme"; it made light of her role as Bianca Jackson. She appeared as Clare in the detective series "McCready and Daughter", which aired for a pilot and one series between 2000 and 2001. She made an appearance in "He Knew He Was Right" for the BBC in 2004, and in 2001 she was seen in the television mini-series "Do or Die", which aired on Sky One.