Join host Andrew Keates for The Show People Podcast - the podcast that shines a spotlight on the performing arts and those dedicated to their craft - recorded live from The Two Brewers in Clapham.
Cheryl Fergison returns for Part Two: an intimate, funny and deeply moving conversation about EastEnders, George Michael and her extraordinary resilience.
Episode Highlights Include:
• From five episodes to five years: becoming Heather Trott
• Creating Heather and Shirley’s friendship with Linda Henry
• The moving story behind Heather’s headbands
• June Brown’s humour, kindness and fierce attention to character
• The Steve McFadden Cheryl knows away from Phil Mitchell
• Challenging jokes about Heather’s eating and sharing her own struggles with food
• George Michael’s gifts, their first meeting and remembering his kindness
• Performing through grief and the press confusing Cheryl with Heather
• Celebrity Big Brother, financial betrayal, tax debt and cancer
• Leaving abuse, finding community and her bond with her son, Alex
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Videography by Ned Wakeley of The Showreel Company
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Photography by Sean Lindsell
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Audio and Stage Management by Liam Chaplin
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Cheryl and Andrew’s Hair Styled by
Louis Wilson
Special Thanks
Oliver Blatherwick, Rhys Godfrey and the staff of The Two Brewers.
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Behind the Scenes by Cheryl Fergison is available now in print and audiobook editions.
