Oh no! That’s terrible…

It was just a little handbag, but she was going on saying I should be ashamed of myself.

Cringe! Now, you said you’d like Jennifer Aniston to come to your dinner party, which is interesting, because we all know Angelina Jolie is being branded a bit of a bitch, and you love to play bitchy, headstrong women, so are you definitely ‘team Aniston‘ or do you admire Ange too?

No not at all. I think that she’s beautiful and stunning and a good actress, it’s difficult to give an opinion on someone I don’t know, but from what I read, I would have to say that Jennifer Aniston, for me, gives off something that is more like myself and seems chilled out.

I go for personality more than looks, and don’t get me wrong Angelina Jolie is beautiful to look at, but each to their own and I would definitely have Jennifer Aniston over Angelina Jolie at my own dinner party.

If you could play any ‘baddie’ woman in a film about her life, who would you take on?

Oh my goodness, I don’t really know, but I’d like to do Thelma And Louise, not that they’re bad women but they’re running away aren’t they? We could do a new-age Thelma And Louise… I could be the blonde and someone like Megan Fox could be the brunette! That would be lovely!

The other half of our readers will know you as playing yet another Claire, this time Clare Bates from Eastenders… so which character did you enjoy playing most of all?

First of all, if there’s any Hollywood movies out there in need of a character called Claire, feel free to give me a call! I can’t really chose between them because they’re both different, in Hollyoaks the job was fantastic because I got to play such and evil role and got to attempt to kill people and stuff like that so it was so far fetched from reality that it was really fun to play. However, when I came back to Eastenders it was equally as fun because I got to work with people I hadn’t seen in ages and I was working near to where I’m from back in London and the character was really fun and the character was really un too, I mean come on, seducing Ian Beale….

Who wouldn’t want to do that?!

I know, I think it’s quite funny because he’s one of the iconic legends on the show, so for me it was a great honour in a really weird kind of way!

You’ve also been busy with other TV work, so are you going to settle with another long running soap any time soon?

Not at the moment, I’ve just signed for a play starting this month so I’m touring around the UK! It’s called The Game Of Murder and I’m playing a nice character for a change which should be quite good, I’m really excited to get into the theatre world and train a bit more and learn a bit more about my art because the theatre world is really respected in the acting industry and I haven’t done any theatre acting yet.

So, if you could cook me one meal to make me forgive you for being horrible to my beloved Max and O.B, what would you knock up?

Oh, I think we’d have to do a Fillet Steak with some Dauphinoise potatoes and some mixed green vegetables and for pudding I’d make a home made Banoffie pie! Any maybe some chilli prawns for starters.

Ooh, I’m hungry already, I’ll hold you to that! But for now, thanks for taking the time out to chat to us and best of luck in the theatre world!

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