July 19th, 2012 by Anna Howell.

Former Strictly Come Dancing contestant and Holby City actress Laila Rouass, is dating rising snooker hit sensation, ‘Rocket’ Ronnie O’Sullivan, The Sun newspaper has revealed.
According to the paper, the snooker champ has been seeing the actress for months, but were spotted for the first time out together earlier this week, having coffee in a cafe not far from O’Sullivan’s Chigwell home.
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December 10th, 2009 by Lisa McGarry.

Laila Rouass may have just been eliminated from BBC’s Strictly Come Dancing but she has been ordered back into rehearsals as bosses fear that Ali Bastian may not be able to perform this week.
Ali injured her ankle two weeks ago but after Saturday’s final had to keep her foot in an ice bucket for an hour as the pain became too much to bear.
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December 9th, 2009 by Lisa McGarry.

Strictly Come Dancing star Laila Rouass has admitted that it was right she and Anton Du Beke left the show on Saturday night.
Laila told The Sun that se would have been embarrassed if anyone else after her routines went ‘terribly wrong.’
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December 6th, 2009 by Lisa McGarry.

Actress Laila Rouass tonight became the twelfth celebrity to be voted off the seventh series of BBC One’s Strictly Come Dancing.
In week twelve and the quarter finals of the competition, the four remaining celebrity contestants and their professional dance partners took to the floor to perform both a Latin and a Ballroom dance. And with the competition hotting up, for the first time this series the couples had to perform and be judged on two individual dances.
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October 20th, 2009 by Lisa McGarry.

Disgraced Strictly Come Dancing star Anton Du Beke, has been rowing with his partner Laila Rouass again, just weeks after he called her a ‘p**i.’
The Sun reports that the pair first argued on Saturday. It was a row so fierce that the pair missed their rehearsal slot and a BBC executive had to be called to calm Laila down.
A source said: “She got so upset she ended up in tears in his office.”
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October 10th, 2009 by Lisa McGarry.

Strictly Come Dancing professional, Anon Du Beke, has apologised on live TV for calling his dance partner a ‘paki.’
Appearing on BBC Two’s ‘It Takes Two’, Anton said he felt “stupid, embarrassed and mortified.”
He added:
“I feel embarrassed. It was a stupid thing to do and a stupid thing to say.
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October 4th, 2009 by Lisa McGarry.

Strictly Come Dancing professional Anton du Beke, is said to have called his partner Laila Rouass a “Paki”.
Anton reportedly made the comment, during a training session and was referring to Laila’s recent spray tan. The Footballers Wives actress has a Moroccan father and an Indian mother.
Anton has since apologised saying: “I am not a racist and I do not use racist language. During our rehearsals, Laila and I have exchanged a great deal of banter – entirely in jest – and two weeks ago there was an occasion where this term was used between the two of us.
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September 2nd, 2009 by Lisa McGarry.

Anton du Beke thinks that his new partner Laila Rouass may help him get closer to this year’s final of Strictly Come Dancing.
“To be honest with you, if they’d said to me what sort of partner do you want this year, I’d say a fella, because they do so well!” Anton told the TV Times.
“But working with Laila this time is exciting, because she oozes potential.”
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August 25th, 2009 by Lisa McGarry.

Actress Laila Rouass first came to the public’s attention for portraying the Jimmy Choo-obsessed, serial schemer Amber Gates in the TV drama, Footballers’ Wives. She went on to star in Primeval, playing a character far removed from the reprehensible Amber: Sarah Page, a geeky Egyptologist.
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