IN more than two decades as a TV agent Melanie Blake masterminded the glittering careers of some of Britain’s best-loved soap stars, including Beverley Callard, Claire King and Gillian Taylforth.
But after years behind the scenes, she has now stepped into the spotlight as the author of a new bonkbuster novel, Ruthless Women, set at the studios of a fictional TV drama — which soon starts to look very familiar.
It is packed with X-rated sex, scandal, booze, drugs and abuse — but what will really titillate soap fans is that 44-year-old Melanie insists: “It’s all absolutely true.” She says: “The things in the book are absolutely real.
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