Working in showbiz for more than two decades means that you will have some wild and wonderful stories. For Melanie Blake, she has decided to channel the drama that she witnessed as a soap star’s agent over the course of 20 years into a fictional novel — Ruthless Women. ‘I started as Beverly Callard’s stand-in and now I manage Beverly Callard.
She is the queen of the soap,’ Melanie told us of her rise to fame. Growing up, Melanie’s family lived off food banks in a house where ‘the handles were falling off the door’.
But by the time she was a teenager, she knew she was meant for the world of glitz and glamour. ‘My mother was a cleaner; one of her jobs was cleaning the floors in a dentist’s office.
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