Laila Rouass

Laila Rouass

Laila Rouass was born in Stepney, London to a Moroccan father and an Indian mother. She is best known for her portrayals of Amber Gates in Footballers’ Wives and Sahira Shah in Holby City. She has also starred in Primeval and Spooks and been a contestant on Strictly Come Dancing.

About Laila Rouass in brief

Summary Laila RouassLaila Rouass was born in Stepney, London to a Moroccan father and an Indian mother. She is best known for her portrayals of Amber Gates in Footballers’ Wives and Sahira Shah in Holby City. She has also starred in Primeval and Spooks and been a contestant on Strictly Come Dancing. She was ranked No. 87 and No. 69 on FHM 100 Sexiest Women in the World 2004 and 2005 respectively. Rouass is currently one of the presenters of \”The Channel 4 TV Book Club\”.

She has been engaged to professional snooker player Ronnie O’Sullivan since February 2013, and they have a daughter, who she brought up by herself. In August 2017, she was caught up in the Barcelona terrorist attack, writing on Twitter that she was hiding in a restaurant freezer. She wrote that she is a Muslim and that she had been hiding in the freezer during the terrorist attack during the incident. The door has been left open for her to return.