EX-EASTENDERS actress Cheryl Fergison has embarked on a new career – a decade after leaving the soap.
The telly star, best known for playing Heather Trott from 2007 to 2012, took on the new challenge as her acting work dried up.
Cheryl is now a singing teacher and is giving lessons for £60 an hour.
She offers one-to-one Zoom courses on singing and also covers off songwriting and a variety of other disciplines.
She is advertising her classes on TikTok and in an email to interested students, she said: “You will have an hour with me where you can choose the subject/s that are of interest.
“It is important that these 1-2-1 sessions are tailor made just for you.”
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As well as musical help, she is offering her services in character building, script reading, script writing, screen acting, stage acting and confidence building.
But she said she is also willing to open up in a personal conversation about her experience on shows including EastEnders.
Cheryl said she would tell students “how a soap is put together for your viewing and how I developed the character of Heather Trott.”
She is also willing to answer any “questions you may have regarding my time at EastEnders, or any other roles on stage/TV that I have portrayed and worked on.”
In 2020 she said she had struggled to find further acting roles after leaving the BBC1 soap as she felt she was typecast in her role as loveable Heather.
She explained: “Heather is hard to shake. I got fairy parts when I left EastEnders in pantos because Heather was lovely and kind.
“I only ask for a little bit of imagination from casting directors.”
She previously said that she originally wanted to return to EastEnders as her character’s long lost twin after Heather was killed by Ben Mitchell.
But after moving out of London she would now prefer a role in Coronation Street or Emmerdale.
Cheryl previously said: “I had this idea when they took me out of it that they could bring back Heather’s long lost twin.
“It didn’t happen and you know what, I live up north now so it’s the cobbles or the dales.”
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Cheryl has recently landed a major new acting role though and will star in Catherine Tate’s upcoming comedy Hard Cell.
The prison series will launch on streaming service Netflix on April 12.
