Ex EastEnders actress Belinda dreams of Wickedness

Ex EastEnders actress Belinda dreams of Wickedness
Ex EastEnders actress Belinda dreams of Wickedness (Image credit: PA Archive/Press Association Ima)

EastEnders actress Belinda Owusu would love to star in the musical Wicked. The actress has finished filming the role of goody two-shoes Libby Fox after four years in the show, and now fancies a less wholesome part. She told Inside Soap magazine: "I'd love to play Elphaba in Wicked, so that I could sing Defying Gravity - it gives me goosebumps." However, she added: "I'd never be able to do it, though, because I can't sing that well!" The actress, who had an emotional final day on set, took a souvenir home from Albert Square. "I took Libby's glasses with me when I left - the really old ones she wore when I first started. "People keep asking me where they are when I meet them while out and about - so maybe I'll pop them on again one of these days." Click here to watch whatsontv.co.uk's weekly soaps video preview, the Soap Scoop Get EastEnders storylines first! Sign up to receive our EastEnders Extra newsletter

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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. 


An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.