{"id":447520,"date":"2026-02-26T23:48:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T23:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/447520\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T23:48:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T23:48:11","slug":"eastenders-heather-trott-star-cheryl-fergison-lands-new-job-with-katie-price","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/447520\/","title":{"rendered":"EastEnders Heather Trott star Cheryl Fergison lands new job with Katie Price"},"content":{"rendered":"

The actress behind EastEnders’ headband-loving Heather Trott will share a stage with the newly-married star.<\/p>\n

18:02, 26 Feb 2026Updated 18:05, 26 Feb 2026<\/p>\n

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Much-loved EastEnders star Cheryl Fergison has a new role(Image: Ken McKay\/ITV\/Shutterstock)<\/p>\n

EastEnders favourite Cheryl Fergison<\/a> has a new job – starring alongside Katie Price<\/a>. The actress is famous for playing the soap’s headband-loving Heather Trott, who died in 2012 after Ben Mitchell clattered her over the head with a picture frame.<\/p>\n

She has now returned to the stage and is touring the UK in stage play Living The Life Of Riley, which is described as “nationally acclaimed” and is introduced each night by a message from Katie Price, who appears on screen.<\/p>\n

The play centres around a mum whose son is diagnosed with autism, a situation Katie, 47, knows well because of her son Harvey, 23. The recently-remarried star, who flew back to the UK from Dubai this week, is mentioned on the show’s posters.<\/p>\n

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Katie Price appearing in a video message during the Living the Life of Riley play(Image: spapavilion\/Instagram)<\/p>\n

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Cheryl Fergison delighted fans by returning to the stage(Image: Ken McKay\/ITV\/Shutterstock)<\/p>\n

Cheryl recently revealed in her book that she’d lost \u00a3500,000 and been left penniless after being scammed by her own accountant<\/a>. She said: \u201cI\u2019m a survivor. It\u2019s not that I\u2019m a glass half full person; I just know I am lucky to have a glass at all.\u201d<\/p>\n

The star recounted how, in 2012, she emerged from the Celebrity Big Brother<\/a> house to the grim news, saying: “For five years, I paid him. For five years he pocketed the money and didn\u2019t pay a single penny to HMRC. Everything I had built, saved and worked for was gone.”<\/p>\n

Cheryl added: “Going broke when you\u2019re famous is the worst, because everyone expects you to have lots of money. People assume that you\u2019re minted. They don\u2019t imagine you\u2019re juggling overdrafts, maxed out credit cards, payday loans and mountains of bills. But that was exactly where I found myself.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI\u2019d just come out of one of the biggest soaps in the country, I’d done Celebrity Big Brother<\/a>. I was still in the papers, still recognised in the street, but behind the scenes, I was totally skint.”<\/p>\n

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Cheryl appearing on the Living the Life of Riley poster<\/p>\n

She divorced her first husband, Afghan refugee Jay Saddiqi in 2008, after an eight-year marriage. In an extract adapted from her book, she reveals how one day, climbing into the car, she knew he had been cheating on her.<\/p>\n

Cheryl recalls the conversation, saying: \u201cJay, why can I smell women\u2019s perfume on the seatbelt?\u201d I said, sniffing it again like a bloodhound. \u201cHe snapped his head round, a flicker of annoyance flashing in his eyes. \u2018You\u2019re imagining things, Cheryl.\u2019<\/p>\n

The star added: “\u201cTo this day, every time I get into a car and pull on a seatbelt, I sniff it. I began to suspect that my husband was cheating on me, but I tried to convince myself I was wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The actress behind EastEnders’ headband-loving Heather Trott will share a stage with the newly-married star. 18:02, 26 Feb…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":447521,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[1078,96,2471,2534,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-447520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-eastenders","tag-entertainment","tag-katie-price","tag-soap-operas","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/447521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}