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Ash Panesar
Ash Panesar (also Kaur) is a fictional character from the BBC soap opera ''EastEnders'', played by Gurlaine Kaur Garcha. Ash was introduced as the bisexual Punjabi Sikh girlfriend of established character Iqra Ahmed ( Priya Davdra) in episode 5980, broadcast on 29 August 2019. Garcha expressed excitement to be cast as a Sikh LGBT character due to the opportunity for representation that it presented. Later revealed to be an estranged member of the Panesar family, Ash's storylines have mainly focused on her complicated family relationships, especially her mother Suki Panesar (Balvinder Sopal) due to her sexual orientation, her romantic relationships with Iqra and Peter Beale ( Dayle Hudson), being a victim of racism at the hands of Aaron Monroe (Charlie Wernham), and her eventual exit from the soap after accepting a job in Canada. Across her time in the serial, Ash was depicted as one of the more morally upright members of her family, often characterised as being empathetic, resili ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gurlaine Kaur Garcha
Gurlaine Kaur Sidhu or Garcha (born 20 September 1993) is an English actress. On television, she is known for her role as Ash Panesar in the BBC One soap opera ''EastEnders'' (2019–2023). Early life Garcha was born in Luton to Kenyan-born parents of Punjabi Sikh heritage. Garcha attended St George's School, Harpenden. She was 6 years old when she took up taekwondo and later joined the Trenic TKD Academy in Yiewsley, West London. Career Garcha first began acting at the age of 15, appearing in the boxing short film ''Counter Punch'' and auditioning for the E4 teen drama '' Skins'', making it to the final 15 of 8 thousand who auditioned for a role. She made her television debut in 2012 with guest appearances in episodes of the BBC One medical soap operas ''Holby City'' and ''Doctors''. Garcha also auditioned for the ''Coronation Street'' role of Rana Habeeb. In 2019, Garcha made her feature film debut with a small role in the coming-of-age comedy-drama '' Days of the Bagnold Sum ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iqra Ahmed
Iqra Ahmed is a fictional character from the BBC soap opera ''EastEnders'', played by Priya Davdra. Davdra's casting as Iqra was announced on 20 December 2018, along with that of Habiba. Both characters were called feisty and the BBC stated that they would both make an impact on Walford. Iqra is the elder sister of Habiba, and is described as "no-nonsense, bold and intelligent". Iqra makes her first appearance in episode 5871, originally broadcast on 19 February 2019. Alongside sister Habiba Ahmed (Rukku Nahar), Iqra is introduced as a relative of established character Masood Ahmed (Nitin Ganatra). Iqra's final appearance aired on 3 January 2022. Iqra's initial storylines revolve around taking over the local restaurant with Habiba and exposing family friend Adam Bateman (Stephen Rahman-Hughes) for cheating on his partner, Honey Mitchell (Emma Barton) but as senior executive producer Kate Oates developed her character, her later storylines have involved coming out as a lesbian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rukku Nahar
Rukku Priya Nahar (born 28 February 1996) is a British actress, known for her roles as Selina Khan on the CBBC series ''Wolfblood'' and Habiba Ahmed on the BBC soap opera ''EastEnders''. Early life Nahar was born on 28 February 1996 in Bedford, England. Nahar is British of Indian people, Indian-Punjabis, Punjabi descent. Whilst growing up, Nahar attended Kempston Academy, Hastingsbury Upper School, and later trained at the Identity School of Acting. Career In 2014, Nahar made her professional acting debut in an episode of the YouTube comedy series ''Corner Shop Show'', as Meena. In 2016, she began portraying the role of Selina Khan in the CBBC drama series ''Wolfblood'', a role she played for two series. Later in 2016, she appeared in an episode of the BBC medical drama ''Casualty (TV series), Casualty''. In 2017, she made her film debut in the adventure film ''We Can Be Heroes'', as Zara Muhammed. In 2018, Nahar made an appearance in an episode of the BBC soap opera ''Doctors ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Habiba Ahmed
''EastEnders'' is a BBC soap opera that first aired on 19 February 1985. The following is a list of characters that first appeared in 2019, in order of first appearance. The characters are initially introduced by the show's executive consultant, John Yorke, or his successors, senior executive producer, Kate Oates, or executive producer, Jon Sen. The first character to be introduced is Bailey Baker (Kara-Leah Fernandes), the daughter of Mitch Baker (Roger Griffiths). She is followed by her mother Dinah Wilson (Anjela Lauren Smith) who is introduced the following month. Sisters Iqra Ahmed ( Priya Davdra) and Habiba Ahmed (Rukku Nahar), the granddaughters of Arshad Ahmed (Madhav Sharma) and Mariam Ahmed (Indira Joshi) are also introduced in February. Danny Hardcastle (Paul Usher) and Midge (Tom Colley), associates of Phil Mitchell (Steve McFadden), are introduced next, followed by Chantelle Atkins (Jessica Plummer), the daughter of Karen Taylor (Lorraine Stanley) and Mitc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daily Mirror
The ''Daily Mirror'' is a British national daily Tabloid journalism, tabloid newspaper. Founded in 1903, it is part of Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN), which is owned by parent company Reach plc. From 1985 to 1987, and from 1997 to 2002, the title on its Masthead (British publishing), masthead was simply ''The Mirror''. It had an average daily print circulation of 716,923 in December 2016, dropping to 587,803 the following year. Its Sunday sister paper is the ''Sunday Mirror''. Unlike other major British tabloids such as ''The Sun (United Kingdom), The Sun'' and the ''Daily Mail'', the ''Mirror'' has no separate Scottish edition; this function is performed by the ''Daily Record (Scotland), Daily Record'' and the ''Sunday Mail (Scotland), Sunday Mail'', which incorporate certain stories from the ''Mirror'' that are of Scottish significance. The ''Mirror'' publishes an Irish edition, the ''Irish Mirror''. Originally pitched to the middle-class reader, it was converted into a worki ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Inside Soap
''Inside Soap'' is a weekly soap opera and television listings magazine published in the United Kingdom. The magazine is currently released every Tuesday. It covers storylines featured in British and Australian soap operas that are broadcast in the United Kingdom, including ''Coronation Street'', '' Doctors'', ''EastEnders'', ''Emmerdale'', ''Hollyoaks'', ''Home and Away'' and ''Neighbours ''Neighbours'' is an Australian television soap opera that has aired since 18 March 1985. It was created by television executive Reg Watson. The Seven Network commissioned the show following the success of Watson's earlier soap '' Sons and ...'' as well as drama '' Casualty''. Since 1996, the magazine have hosted the ''Inside Soap'' Awards ceremony each year. History Profile and early years ''Inside Soap'' was launched in Australia in 1992, published by the Sydney-based Attic Futura. Attic Futura was sold to Pacific Magazines in 1993 by which time the magazine had been successfully l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Clenshaw
Christopher "Chris" Clenshaw (born 29 September 1986) is an English television producer, known for serving as the executive producer of the BBC soap opera ''EastEnders'' from 2022 to 2025. Life and career Early life and television production work Christopher "Chris" Clenshaw and his twin sister Georgia were born on 29 September 1986 in Gravesend, Kent to Greek-Cypriot mother Helen (''née'' Antoniou) and English father Alfred Clenshaw, a Woolwich market trader. Clenshaw began his career in television production working as an edit assistant on the BBC Three factual programme '' Freaky Eaters'', before becoming a runner and ultimately head researcher on ''Richard & Judy'' between 2008 and 2009. He then worked as a shooting researcher on various shows including '' Local Food Hero'', '' 3@Three'' and ''One Night Stand with Ne-Yo''. In 2010, Clenshaw joined the ITV daytime programme ''This Morning'', initially as a researcher before going on to hold an array of positions within th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canada
Canada is a country in North America. Its Provinces and territories of Canada, ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, making it the world's List of countries and dependencies by area, second-largest country by total area, with the List of countries by length of coastline, world's longest coastline. Its Canada–United States border, border with the United States is the world's longest international land border. The country is characterized by a wide range of both Temperature in Canada, meteorologic and Geography of Canada, geological regions. With Population of Canada, a population of over 41million people, it has widely varying population densities, with the majority residing in List of the largest population centres in Canada, urban areas and large areas of the country being sparsely populated. Canada's capital is Ottawa and List of census metropolitan areas and agglomerations in Canada, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlie Wernham
Charlie David Wernham (born 3 October 1994) is a British actor and comedian from Billericay, England. After auditioning for the second series of the ITV talent show ''Britain's Got Talent'', he went on to play Robbie Roscoe in the Channel 4 soap opera ''Hollyoaks'' between 2013 and 2016, and again from 2024. He also played Mitchell Harper in '' Bad Education'' between 2012 and 2014, and again from 2022 to 2024, as well as Aaron Monroe in the BBC soap opera ''EastEnders'' from 2021 to 2022. He has also appeared in ''The Inbetweeners'', ''School of Comedy'', and ''Some Girls''. Early life Charlie David Wernham was born on 3 October 1994 in Billericay. He started his stand-up comedy act at the age of eight, winning his first talent show at eight. He went on to win three more contests. His father, Dave, helped him write his jokes and structure the routine. Wernham's favourite comedians are Ed Byrne, Peter Kay and Lee Evans. Career ''Britain's Got Talent'' In 2008, Wernha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aaron Monroe
Aaron Monroe is a fictional character from the BBC soap opera ''EastEnders'', played by Charlie Wernham. Wernham auditioned for the role over Zoom (software), Zoom due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on television and was cast as Aaron, the son of estalished character Harvey Monroe (Ross Boatman) and older brother of Dana Monroe (Barbara Smith). He first appeared in episode 6363, broadcast on 21 October 2021. Wernham was open about his joy to be cast in ''EastEnders'', as it had been a childhood dream of his. Across his stint, Aaron's storylines have included his relationship with Tiffany Butcher (Maisie Smith), involvement with a far-right politics, far-right terrorist organisation, and his eventual arrest and struggles in prison. Initially billed as a suave, opinionated, and cocky businessman, Aaron was soon revealed to be involved in an Islamophobic hate group. The storyline required advisors on-set to ensure accuracy. Despite acknowledging the seriousness of the plot, W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Racism
Racism is the belief that groups of humans possess different behavioral traits corresponding to inherited attributes and can be divided based on the superiority of one Race (human categorization), race or ethnicity over another. It may also mean prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against other people because they are of a different ethnic background. Modern variants of racism are often based in social perceptions of biological differences between peoples. These views can take the form of social actions, practices or beliefs, or political systems in which different races are ranked as inherently superior or inferior to each other, based on presumed shared inheritable traits, abilities, or qualities. There have been attempts to legitimize racist beliefs through scientific means, such as scientific racism, which have been overwhelmingly shown to be unfounded. In terms of political systems (e.g. apartheid) that support the expression of prejudice or aversion in discri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dayle Hudson
Dayle Hudson is a British actor. He initially did an apprenticeship before attending Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts. After graduating, Hudson worked as a bricklayer and would audition. In 2019, Hudson was cast in the regular role of Peter Beale on the British soap opera ''EastEnders'', becoming the seventh actor in the role. Hudson's debut aired in February 2020, and he remained in the role until he was written out in 2022. Hudson has also performed in various theatre productions and in the 2017 short film ''Sleight''. Career Dayle Hudson comes from a family of bricklayers and would help his father on building sites. Hudson completed his apprenticeship before attending Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts. He also took part in several theatre productions. After graduating from the drama school in 2017, Hudson went back to working as a bricklayer and would audition during the week. In 2017, Hudson appeared in the short film ''Sleight''. In December 2019, it was announced tha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
