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Fantastic Footballer's Wive$
By Ninawa Butrus, TheWorldJournal.com

The new smash hit British drama -meets -soap series Footballers' Wive$ has captured millions of viewers worldwide. While some love the show and others hate it, most people will agree that it is downright entertaining, just ask Posh Spice. After a very successful first series, production on Series Two is said to have commenced and viewers are patiently awaiting the new frills and spills that come with the bold and flamboyant storylines.

Footballers' Wive$ revolves around three young but wealthy couples- the Pascoes, the Turners and the Walmsleys- where the men play for the fictious football club Earl's Park, dubbed The Sparks by fans, drive flashy sportscars, engage in peculiar habits and always smile for the cameras. The captain, Jason Turner (Cristian Solimeno) is facing a crisis as Italian superstar Slavatore Biagi (Daniel Schutszmann) is signed on to the club with the threat of taking his position. Jason and his wife Tanya (Zoe Lucker) don't like the idea of sitting in second place to fame and fortune and decide to take matters in their own hands resulting in disaster as the Chairman of Earl's Park Frank Laslett (John Forgeham) ends up in a coma.

The Pascoes are very different from the Turners, Chardonnay (Susie Amy) a glamour model whose chest gets set alight on her hen's night and Kyle (Gary Lucy) being the pretty little mummy's boy that all the girls scream for when The Sparks finish their practice sessions. After a false pregnancy ordeal Kyle and Chardonnay agree to adopt Kyle's mother's baby, the father remaining unknown to anybody except viewers, and raise it as their own, in preference to looking bad in the media.

Finally, the most down-to-earth couple, The Walmsleys represent the typically family unit- or do they? Ian (Nathan Constance) has been dreaming of becoming a professional footballer and playing for Earl's Park ever since he was a little boy and will let nothing get in his way to be on top. Donna (Katharine Monaghan) is the supportive, but very much neglected wife, who just wants to live a normal life and raise her kids, but Ian's ambitions of being the best always disrupt the orderly. With a cliffhanger finale in Series One, Ian and Donna's little daughter Holly is kidnapped, much to the fault of Donna's troublesome sister Marie (Micaiah Dring), who "forgot" to pick her up from school after continuing her affair with the womanising Spark's Captain, Jason Turner.

Series Two is set to glue viewers to their TV's as the revelations for the couples lash out in different ways. Will the Walmsley's get their daughter back? Will Frank Laslett identify that it was the Turners who put him into a coma? Can Kyle and Chardonnay pull off the baby stunt and raise it as their own? Viewer's will just have to stay tuned in and wait for the show to return to screens next year- it will be worth the wait.

© December 6, 2002

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