Biggest Post-Soap Successes?
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Great things are often expected of soap actors when they leave their street/square etc. Many have launched other careers and crashed and burned. No Adam Rickett jokes please! 
Now and then however we do witness the odd one or two who've made it big. With Bruno Langley seeking to spread his wings, I thought this would be pretty topical..
Ok, here's my list..
Martin Kemp (formerly Steve Owen), Tamzin Outhwaite (Mel Healy/Beale/Owen!), and of course Kylie Minogue, Holly Valance and maybe Amanda Barry (sort of..), I mean Bad Girls is a step-up really..
So who am I missing?
Now and then however we do witness the odd one or two who've made it big. With Bruno Langley seeking to spread his wings, I thought this would be pretty topical..
Ok, here's my list..
Martin Kemp (formerly Steve Owen), Tamzin Outhwaite (Mel Healy/Beale/Owen!), and of course Kylie Minogue, Holly Valance and maybe Amanda Barry (sort of..), I mean Bad Girls is a step-up really..
So who am I missing?
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Martin Kemp his gone down in my view apart from turning up to all of ITV award thingys his drama was moved to ITV2 it was that bad!
Ok, heres my real list!
Ross Kemp
Tamzin Outhwaite
Michelle Collins
The actor who played Matthew Rose in EE went on to do some films.
Yes nowhere lol
Ross Kemp - OK so some of his post EE stuff is shocking but he works a hell of alot
Nick Berry - Succesful in Heartbeat although has been quiet of late
Michele Collins - As mentioned already
Amanda Barrie - Yeah I would put her there simply because she didnt expect to do much after Corrie and didnt leave with the big "Im going to be a star" and yet is doing Bad Girls & Hells Kitchen
Tamzin Outhwaite - Red Cap etc although im not sure how long she will last!
Jack Ryder - Oh no sorry how did he get there!!!!
Lol.. yeah, I know. But she still probably made more from her brief spell in the pop scene limelight than she did in neighbours!
Yeah, Martin Kemp hasn't been around for a bit, but I reckon he could reappear at any moment.
I reckon Tamzin Outhwaite will last for ages.. She's stunning, she'll never be short of roles. No matter how many times Red Cap fails to get off the ground she'll always have something to fall back on..
How about the dreaded Martine McCutcheon? I guess she's come a long way..
I doubt it really.. Better looking, more talented actors have failed. He's not that special all in all. And I'm not having a go at him, I just don't see anything majorly promising in his future really.
Holly Valance has quit music altogether to concentrate on her acting.
Dani from H&A is the next soap bird to go into music.
Let's hope she sings better than when she first arrived on H&A (if anyone remembers she butchered Christine Anu's "Coz I'm Free" in an otherwise rather funny storyline).
Coz Im' freeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee,
coz I'm freeeeeeee !
The bloke who played Dave Glover in Emmerdale has also been in numerous things, and Samantha Giles (Bernice) is in "Where THe Heart Is".
Jane Danson (Leanne in Corrie). Yes she's comnig back, but she's had a few high profile roles...
All those others that moved to The Bill and Holby - Todd Carty, Daniel thingy (Neighbours), Roberta something (Irene in EE), Beth Cordingly (Family Affairs), the bloke who played the EE market inspector, several from Brookside, and Tina Hobley from Corrie now in Holby...
OMG have you seen her on hells kitchen, i thought she was going to lose her temper, her face was a picture, "yes chef yes chef yes chef"...it's her and that bloke that seem to get picked on.
Lol, yeah. I love her character in Bad Girls though. Too funny! Lol, how brilliant was it when the two of them were denying they knew anything about the rhubarb and next thing the toilet overflowed with gardening books.
Yeah, her hair is awful. But it really transforms her, you'd hardly believe it was the same person who played Alma Baldwin..
From EE, Michael French has done well. Daniella Westbrooke is still ligging it with best of them.
Kylie Minogue from Neighbours aint done too bad for herself either.
Really??? :eek: I never knew that!
I wasn't aware of him being Neighbours cast member.. since I never watch the show, I guess.
All in all Aussie soap stars seem to do best in their post soap-careers.. There's Kylie Minogue, Delta Goodrem, Holly Valance, Russell Crowe and heath Ledger to name a few. Pretty impressive really..
I don't think he was in that many episodes, a mate of Henry's if I remember correctly - just thought of another one, but my minds gone blank on his real name - Mike from Neighbours, he's gone on to star in major Hollywood stuff like LA Confidential
Guy Pearce - that's his name. Was Mike in Neighbours for ages (during the Scott and Charlene years), went out with Anne for quite a while, think he wanted to be a phtographer.