Gissa Job!
Mina Anwar who shot to fame as Constable Habib in The Thin Blue Line and can be seen in the new ITV drama The Lucky Ones later this summer is gagging for a part in EastEnders.

Mobile madness
Another Street star with a confession to make is Jonathan Wrather, who plays Mike Baldwin's hunky new sidekick Joe Carter.

Angela’s Embarrassment
Angela Lonsdale, who plays Curly Watts's police officer wife Emma in Coronation Street, has not always been an actress. Time was when she was selling dodgy jewellery.

Treacher Treat
Last seen dying a painful death while tending his allotment in EastEnders, Bill Treacher is back among the living in big-screen movie The Musketeer.

Goodyear tired
It looks as if Julie Goodyear's absence from the soap she went off sick suffering from exhaustion has a lot to do with the amazing changes that have occurred on Coronation Street since she was last in the show.

Not So Clever Trevor?
Is EastEnders star Alex Ferns inviting trouble, as his character Trevor continues to behave so appallingly?


Hang on a Mo, what's your name?
THE actress who plays 'Big' Mo Harris in EastEnders is really called Maureen Oldman, not Laila Morse.

Time flies
Although Coronation Street won't celebrate its 41st birthday until December, William Roache, who has played Ken Barlow from day one, is already celebrating 41 years under contract to the soap.


Trev's gay crimper past
IT'S become increasingly hard to believe that Alex Ferns, terrible Trevor in EastEnders, ever played a gay hairdresser in another TV soap. But he did.


Gary's big break
EASTENDER Gary Beadle has a hidden talent as a break dancer.

Tear we go
ONE man who needs no help from a tearstick is EastEnders' Derek Martin, alias taxi driving Charlie Slater.

It could be a long Night
The word from Night & Day is: don't write us off just yet. The game looked up when the ITV soap saw its three tea-time episodes axed.

Chris fears a part in Emmer-dole
HE plays one of soap opera's great pantomime baddies, a man as capable of raising a smile as he is of making the TV audience hiss and boo.

Close call
WHO says nothing dramatic ever happens in Aussie soap Home And Away?


No pain for Kat
Jessie Wallace was delighted to announce that the many years of migraine-strong headaches that had plagued her disappeared when she arrived to play Kat Slater in EastEnders.

Ladies man
Ken Barlow may have had most wives and lovers among soap characters, but there's one man determined to beat his record.

Anna digs herself into soap history
IT'S amazing what impact a really good soap opera storyline can make.

Real life drama
SIGHS of relief all round at the BBC following the horrifying snatch of a two-day-old baby from a hospital in the West Midlands.

Sweet sixteen
SIXTEEN years on a soap is a long time, especially when the actor in question was only hired for a brief spell initially!


Keeping mum
The Beeb are feeling pretty smug at the moment after successfully keeping the verdict in the Little Mo trial and the identity of Phil Mitchell's would-be assassin under wraps until the episodes in question were aired.