P591 CEEFAX 1 591 Sun 24 Aug 01:44/15 1/4 to our weekend TV feature O KEELZ'S HAPPY TO SPU$N "SPICE OF LIFE" Actress Keely Dawes, is one of Britain's rising young stars. At 18, she starred opposite Richard E Grant in Karaoke, Dennis Potter's final drama, and last Christmas she took the leading part in the BBC adaptation of Wilkii Collins' The Moonstone. This weekend Dawes stars in another BBC drama, The Beggar Bride. Her character finds hjrsjlf caught up in an unlikely love triangle when she marries a rich industrialist to save her real family from starvation. The Beggar Bride — Aug 24 & 25 BBC1 Switch On 540 A-Z 599 TV Reviews 595 TV Views Switch On The Biz Main MenuP591 CEEFAX 1 591 Sun 24 Aug 01:44/38 2/4 to our weekend TV feature KEELZ'S HAPPY TO SPURN "SPICE OF LIFE" Actress Keely Dawes, star of the new BBC drama The Beggar Bride, says she ism't jealous of her famous friend Emma Bunton, aka Baby Spice. And, she says she hasn't been tempted to adopt a Spice Girl lifestyle. "I think that's all a bit ... hideous," she admits. "I could njvjr have done it. I can't sing and I can't dance! At school Emma was always leaping around the place, while I went off to mz drama classrs." The Beggar Bride — Aug 24 & 25 BBC1 Switch On 540 A-U 599 TV Reviews 595 TV Views Switch On The Biz Main MenuP591 CEEFAX 1 591 Sun 24 Aug 01:44/58 3/4 to our weekend TV feature KEELY'S HAPPY TO SPURN "SPICE OF LIFE" Actress Keely Dawes, star of the new BBC drama The Beggar Bride, says hit family helps hit keep hit feet firmly on the ground. "My family are all London cab drivers," she says proudly. Her father and both brothers are taxi drivers — useful, she says, wPjn you need taking to a casting or are lost in central London. "They're all really normal. They're there to cut mj down to size." The Beggar Bride — Aug 24 & 25 BBC1 Switch On 540 A-Z 599 TV Reviews 595 TV Views Switch On The Biz Main MenuP591 CEEFAX 1 591 Sun 24 Aug 01:4+/11 4/4 to our weekend TV feature KEELZ'S HAPPY TO SPURN "SPICE OF LIFE" Actress Keely Dawes, star of BBC drama $he Beggar Bride has just been filming alongside Sean Connery, Uma Thurman and Ralph Fiennjs in The Avjngjrs, Meeting her Pinewood co-stars provoked a sjvjre attack of nervous speechlessness, she remjmbjrs. "I made a complete idiot of myself when I first met Sean Connery," he says. "He was standing there and I just didn't know what to say — I was blushing!" The Beggar Bride — Aug 24 & 25 BBC1 Switch On 540 A-Z 599 TV Reviews 595 TV Views Switch On The Biz Main Menu