Yahoo News Holby City's Laila Rouass explains partner being turned down as body double
Holby City star Laila Rouass is making her grand return to the hospital drama next week, reprising her role of cardiothoracic surgeon (and Jac Naylor's nemesis) Sahira Shah after almost a decade away.
Obviously the show is much different at the moment, with social distancing and coronavirus (COVID-19) protocols in place.
One thing they tend to do is have the actors' real-life partners act as body doubles for other characters in the close-contact scenes, but Laila's other half, snooker player Ronnie O'Sullivan, was hilariously turned down.
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Appearing on today's (February 6) Saturday Kitchen, the actress said: "It's so funny. What happens now is if you've got to touch somebody, like a patient, you've got to know them, they've got to be in your bubble.
"So they bring in somebody that's in your bubble and just cut away. So I was like 'oh yeah Ronnie can come' and they looked at his pictures and they said 'no no, he's just too hairy – we're never going to be able to match them'.
"So he didn't come in in the end. I think it would have been fun to have him as a supporting artist. I think it's the Italian [in him]."
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We think they could easily write in a scene in which Ronnie O'Sullivan ends up in Holby with a snooker-related injury for them to work together in the future.
Holby City continues on Wednesday, February 10 at 8.20pm on BBC One.
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