EastEnders Cheryl wants camel wedding like Heather

EastEnders Cheryl wants camel wedding like Heather
EastEnders Cheryl wants camel wedding like Heather (Image credit: PA Archive/Press Association Ima)

Cheryl Fergison has revealed her real-life dream wedding would include camels and a tent - much like her EastEnders character Heather Trott. The 46-year-old actress, who recently got engaged to Moroccan jeweller Yassine Al-Jermoni, hasn't set a date for the big day yet but has already thought about what she would like. "My dream wedding would be the same as Heather's probably - a few camels and a tent!" she told Woman's Own. Cheryl has no plans to be a bridezilla, adding: "I would rather just turn up and pray I hadn't woken up with curly hair, hope he is where he is meant to be and just do it." She said her co-stars Linda Henry (Shirley) and Steve McFadden (Phil) have been supportive of her long-distance romance. "Madam (Linda) has been hugely supportive. She was the one I told first," she continued. "Linda noticed I wasn't myself at work, not eating and losing weight, so I told her I'd met this bloke and I didn't know what to do. Linda said she could tell this was something different and she encouraged me all the way. They have chatted a few times on the webcam." Cheryl added: "Steve has been supportive too, but he's a bit more wary, like a brother would be, and Linda reassures him Yassine's alright."

Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 


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