With the arrival of internationally famous actress Amanda Donahue in Emmerdale, we thought we’d take a look at which other famous actors and actresses have made appearances in the soaps. Granted, Amanda seems to be in it as a regular now, but you might be surprised to see which famous faces have made brief appearances in the soaps!
For instance, one of the most surprising very famous cameo appearances was by Prince Charles on Coronation Street. The Prince made his guest appearance in what the show’s producers described as “a near flawless” live episode of the Street which was part of the programme’s 40th anniversary celebrations. Read more & comment »
Classic soap opera, Brookside, will be back on our TV screens this later month to mark the 25th anniversary of Channel 4.
The show first aired in the UK in 1982, and the first ever episode will be shown on More 4 on the 30th September.
Also to be screened again are the films Walter starring Sir Ian McKellen as a mentally handicapped man and The Comic Strip Presents… Five Go Mad In Dorset with Adrian Edmondson, Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders.
Brookside has a lot to answer for…..without it we may have been spared the crooning of Ray Quinn! But in fairness, in it’s day Brookside was a great soap, daring to air storylines that other soaps only dreamt of (who remembers Anna Friels’ lesbian scenes?)
What I didn’t know was that unlike other soap operas, Brookside was not filmed on a set, but on a real life middle class cul-de-sac.
In 2003, after the show had gone down the pan, the houses were sold off to a property developer and although the houses have not been fully renovated as yet, some clever sod has taken their video camera down to the street and provided us with the eerie footage of the deserted close below………You see, this is where Sinbad belongs! Not on Coronation Street!
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