Footballers' Wives (2002– )

Drama focusing on the players at Earls Park Football Club as well as the lives of their wives and girlfriends.

Stars:

Gillian Taylforth, Zoe Lucker, Alison Newman

2 wins & 3 nominations.

Cast

Series cast summary:
Gillian Taylforth	...	Jackie Pascoe (38 episodes, 2002-2006)
Zoe Lucker	...	Tanya Turner (35 episodes, 2002-2006)
Alison Newman	...	Hazel Bailey (28 episodes, 2002-2005)
Chad Shepherd	...	Ron Bateman (26 episodes, 2002-2006)
Gary Lucy	...	Kyle Pascoe (25 episodes, 2002-2004)
Jesse Birdsall	...	Roger Webb (24 episodes, 2004-2006)
Lewis Till	...	Swifty (24 episodes, 2002-2006)
Sarah Barrand	...	Shannon Lawson (23 episodes, 2004-2006)
Laila Rouass	...	Amber Gates (22 episodes, 2004-2006)
Greg Bennett	...	Team Coach (22 episodes, 2004-2006)
John Forgeham	...	Frank Laslett (21 episodes, 2002-2004)
Peter Ash	...	Darius Fry (21 episodes, 2003-2006)
Ben Price	...	Conrad Gates (18 episodes, 2004-2005)
Ben Richards	...	Bruno Milligan (17 episodes, 2005-2006)
Helen Latham	...	Lucy Milligan (17 episodes, 2005-2006)
Cristian Solimeno	...	Jason Turner (16 episodes, 2002-2003)
Susie Amy	...	Chardonnay Lane-Pascoe (16 episodes, 2002-2003)
Jamie Davis	...	Harley Lawson (16 episodes, 2004-2005)
Daniel Schutzmann	...	Salvatore Biagi (16 episodes, 2002-2003)
Philip Bretherton	...	Stefan Hauser (16 episodes, 2002-2003)

Storyline

Footballer$ Wives had changed a lot. It started with the Turners, Pascoes and Walmsleys, with a string of other characters too. Since then the Walmsleys have departed, as have Jason Turner and Chardonnay Lane-Pascoe.

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Plot Keywords:

kidnapping | drowning | lesbian | wedding ceremony | homosexual jock | 

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Taglines:

Where life can never be too rich or trashy...

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Genres:

Drama

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Certificate:

TV-14

Details

Official Sites:

Shed Productions

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Release Date:

8 January 2002 (UK)

Also Known As:

Femme$ de footballeurs

Filming Locations:

Chigwell, Essex, England, UK

Company Credits

Production Co:

Carlton Television, Shed Productions

Technical Specs

Runtime:

49 min 49 min (25 episodes)

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Trivia

Julie Legrand (Jeanette Dunkley) has said that she is never recognized in public as her character's appearance in the series is completely different from what she looks like in real life.

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Quotes

Tanya Turner: Just a friendly warning for the future, you go anywhere near my husband again and it'll take more than Botox to sort your face out!

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Connections

Spoofed in Still Game: Hard Nuts (2006)

User Reviews

So much fun!

This is one of the best shows to watch, you don't need to know everything that has happened beforehand to watch and the storyline's aren't very taxing after a long day at work.

The show follows (as you've probably guessed) Premiership footballers and their wives. There are Jason (seasons 1 & 2) and Tanya (season 1 - ), the constantly sparring, schemeing and cheating couple. He's a sex-mad, homophobic bad buy and captain of Earls Park Rangers while she's a cocaine addict, attempted murderer and TV's biggest bitch.

Next there's the dull Walmsley family, who only lasted 1 1/2 seasons on the show.

The Pascoes consist of Kyle (season 1 - )and his glamour model wife Chardonnay (seasons 1 & 2), as well as his mother Jackie. They are very Posh and Becks. In season 1 Jackie got pregnant with Jason Turner's baby, and then Char learned she couldn't have kids so they came up with the crazy idea that she and Kyle would bring up Jackie's baby. But as ever in FW things went wrong and it turned out that the baby had both male and female reproductive organs. At the end of season two, Jackie left with baby Paddy. Will she return?

There are also other characters, Salvitore Biagi (another footballer), who had an affair with Donna Walmsley, Freddie Hauser (his new love interest), Stefan (her father, manager of Earls Park) and Frank (who Tanya tried to kill and also works at Earls Park).

Overall this show is great!