Soap star Charlie Brooks has been crowned "Queen of the Jungle" after winning ITV reality show I'm A Celebrity...

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Former Hollyoakes soap star Mikyla Dodd, who weighed 25 stone (159kg) and fitted a dress size of 28 when she appeared in the show as Chloe Bruce, defended overweight role models.

BBC: Fat stars 'make obesity normal'

Eighteen years ago, John Sayles might have boiled down this back-to-basics portrait of a paralyzed, bitter white soap star (Mary McDonnell) and her strong-willed black caretaker (Alfre Woodard) into a twenty-page short story.

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Actress Leleti Khumalo is best known as a soap star in her native South Africa, but in the late 1980s, she made a name for herself in this country with a Tony Award-winning performance in the Broadway musical "Sarafina!"

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Sedibe, who is married to top South African soap star Sonia Sedibe and will now stand down from his role as the LOC's legal expert, promised to devote his time in the job to building a post-World Cup legacy for South African football.

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Soap opera star Kelly Monaco was No. 3, rapper 'Lil Kim No. 7, and movie hottie Jessica Alba No. 10.

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Holmes, who became a star in the teen soap opera Dawson's Creek, made her Broadway debut in the 2008 production of Arthur Miller's All My Sons.

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Ms. Fisher has certainly emerged as the star of a reality TV soap opera far more gripping than any part she was offered in Hollywood.

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