Gemma Atkinson ‘devastated’ on losing out on Waterloo Road role after ‘back and forth’

Gemma Atkinson ‘devastated’ on losing out on Waterloo Road role after ‘back and forth’

06/30/2020

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Gemma Atkinson 35, best known for starring in long-running soap Hollyoaks, opened up in a candid talk with her former co-stars Kelly Condron and Alex Carer on YouTube about losing out on job opportunities. The former Strictly Come Dancing star revealed she had once been rejected for a role on Waterloo Road and had pinned her hopes on landing a part that was filmed locally.

At the time, I was devastated

Gemma Atkinson

Speaking on The Dog In The Pond YouTube channel, she explained: “I’ve gone for jobs where I’ve been so close to getting them, come on, and I’ve not got it, and then once it’s been aired I thought oh….

“But it’s worked out the right way. I went to be a regular in Waterloo Road. I went through a stage of saying to my agent; ‘I want a job where I can live at home, instead of commuting and living in a hotel’.

“And it was filmed up the road from me. It was between me and someone else, it was back and forth, back and forth and I didn’t get it.”

Gemma described the painful rejection as being hard at the time, but things began to look up shortly after. 

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She continued “At the time, I was devastated, I was like, ‘Oh my god’, but then a week later, a radio gig came up which was more convenient, better hours, everything was better for me.

“Had I got the Waterloo Road, I would have had to turn the radio down.”

Alex interjected: “Who got the acting job, tell me her name?”

Gemma joked: “I don’t even know her name!”

Alex replied: “Will you text it to me after?”

Gemma smirked: “Yeah, I will DM you!”

The actress appeared on daytime soap Hollyoaks as character Lisa Hunter for four years in the early 2000s.

She went on to star in hospital drama Casualty and Emmerdale before appearing on Strictly Come Dancing.

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Gemma is currently dating professional dancer Gorka Marquez, whom she met back in 2017 on Strictly.

They welcomed their first child, Mia, in July 2019, who is often featured in Gemma’s videos, as she balances being a working mum.

The actress recently admitted that although she and Gorka have been together a while, they won’t be getting married anytime soon.

She told Hello magazine: “People are always commenting on our Instagram photos with, ‘Put a ring on it’ and I think, shouldn’t you ask if I want to get married? No, I think how we are is perfect.

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Earlier on in the YouTube interview, Gemma admitted that it had not always been plain sailing with Gorka.

She spoke of an “embarrassing” dating rumour that began when the pair started to film Strictly.

Gemma said: “It was a bit embarrassing because it was in the paper that we were seeing each other before we were, and I remember thinking, ‘Christ I hope he doesn’t think I’m going round saying [it] to people’.”

She added: “I didn’t want it to look like it was me, and I didn’t know he was saying the same thing to his mates!” 

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