Simone Articles & Scans Archive

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2007

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September

• Brisbane Times 21 September 2007 - Brief review of upcoming Wire in the Blood episode on the ABC (Australia). New promo pic of Simone with Robson

July

• Closer Magazine (UK) 7-13 July 2007 Wired Up! Robson Green and Simone Lahbib are back to solve more gory murders in this brilliant crime drama
• Press Release 13 July 2007 Press Release:  Wire In The Blood Ratings Success
  The fifth instalment of the popular crime franchise Wire In The Blood, premiered strongly for ITV1 United Kingdom on Wednesday 11th July at 9.00pm, delivering an outstanding 5.9 million viewers and a 26.9% market share....
• The Mirror 11 July 2007 - Preview of Wire in the Blood (has a pic of Simone as Alex)

June

• Daily Express Saturday Magazine 1 June 2007 Simone Lahbib loved working with bubbly Robson Green on the new series of Wire In The Blood. He made the whole studio sparkle, she tells Paula Kerr
• Sunday Express - 1 June 2007 - Life as I know it - Simone Lahbib. Wire in the Blood star Simone, 42, lives in London with her actor husband Raffaello Degruttola and daughter Skye, 22 months...
   

February

• AfterEllen.com 5 February 2007 Interview with Simone Lahbib. It took seven years, but Scottish actor Simone Lahbib and the rest of the cast of Bad Girls have finally arrived in the United States. Beginning this week, all eight seasons of the popular and award-winning British prison drama begin airing on cable channel Logo, AfterEllen.com's parent company...
• Official Wire In the Blood Simone Lahbib interview - Mother-of-one Simone Lahbib would find it hard to cope with the nightmarish lifestyle of Wire in the Blood cop DI Alex Fielding.
   

 

2006

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October

• The Journal (Newcastle, England) 11 October 2006 Simone Struggles With Baby Blues. SIMONE Lahbib couldn't have imagined how much help having a newborn baby would be when she took on the role of tough senior detective and single mum Alex Fielding.
• The People (newspaper) 8 October 2006 - Lesbians lusted after me in Bad Girls.. but all I want is more babies with the man I love EXCLUSIVE JOYS OF BEING A MUM AT 41 TV's Simone goes from being a gay icon to Robson Green's Wire In The Blood sidekick. GORGEOUS Simone Lahbib was as stunned as anyone when she became a gay pin-up after romping with a woman prisoner in TV's Bad Girls..

September

• Radio Times 16-22 September 2006 - No Glory In Gore - review of Wire in the Blood

August

• Sydney Morning Herald 10 August 2007 - Review of Wire In The Blood
• Daily Record - 2 August 2006 - Horror storylines hurt more now I'm a mum; Scots star Simone had baby blues in new role as tough cop. SCOTS actress Simone Lahbib plays a tough detective in her latest TV role - but has admitted the thought of leaving her baby reduced her to tears.
   

   

September

• Daily Record 16 September 2006 Skye kept baby blues at bay; Actress and mother Simone Lahbib tells PAUL ENGLISH about her fantastic double life WIRE IN THE BLOOD WEDNESDAY, STV,9pm.
  Simone Lahbib kept her head when people all around were losing theirs during her Wire In The Blood debut...
• The News Letter 13 September 2006 (Belfast, Northern Ireland)  TV cop Simone wants to be yummy mummy. WHEN actress Simone Lahbib first heard that she had landed a part in gritty detective series Wire In The Blood, there was just one thing that concerned her. It wasn't the dark, often gory subject matter - she was worried about how she would manage juggling a stressful filming schedule with looking after her new daughter Skye, born last October.
   

August

• The Times - 27 August 2006 My hols: Simone Lahbib - Furious elephants and Hollywood royalty make a holiday, says Simone Lahbib

   

 

2005

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November

• Daily Record 4 November 2005 SIMONE GETS WIRED IN AS A COP - Exclusive Star's new role SCOTS actress Simone Lahbib will replace Cold Feet star Hermione Norris in the new series of ITV thriller Wire In The Blood next year...

April

• Daily Record 19 April 2005 - Star feared she'd never have kids. MONARCH Of The Glen star Simone Lahbib has told how she learned she was pregnant the day before her husband was due to take a fertility test. The former Bad Girls actress feared she would never become a mum after 23 months of marriage to Italian actor Raffaello Degruttola, 34, and no sign of a baby.
   

March

• Mirror Newspaper 7 March 2005 - Why Simone Is Leaving Monarch Of The Glen. IT should be the happiest time of Simone Lahbib's life. The beautiful star of the BBC hit series Monarch Of The Glen is finally pregnant, at the age of 40...

February

• The Daily Mail 26 February 2005 - BADGIRL COMES GOOD; From lesbian kisses in a women's prison, to muddy boots and jumpers in Monarch Of The Glen, at 40 Simone Lahbib is preparing for her biggest role yet ... as a mother. SIMONE Lahbib is gleeful at the prospect of her next role, which she has craved more than any other - even though it will not see her grace the silver screen. The stunning Scottish actress is expecting her first child with Italian husband, Raffaello Degruttola, and could not be happier at the news, especially as motherhood is the one part she had begun to think might never come her way....
• Sunday Mirror - 20 February 2005 - Baby joy for Glen's Simone; TV WRITERS IN SCRIPT FLAP. MONARCH of the Glen beauty Simone Lahbib is pregnant with her first child. The sultry Scots actress and her Italian actor husband Raffaello Degruttola are set to become parents in September. They have been trying for a family for some time.
  
   

 

2004

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September

• Saturday Magazine (Daily Express) 18-24 September 2004 I'd love a clan of my own! She may be looking for a fling in Monarch Of The Glen, but off screen former Bad Girl Simone Lahbib can't wait to start a family

 

April

• The Sunday Times 25 April 2004 - Culture: Femme fatale with the masculine touch. Simone Lahbib is keeping her clothes on for her latest role as a tough female detective, she tells Anna Burnside

March

• Daily Record 13 March 2004 - I'll make it Glam-bogle; Sassy Scots Bad Girl Simone to take a little bit of bling to Monarch. SEXY Scots actress Simone Lahbib wants to bring some glamour to the sleepy Scottish Highlands and she'll not let the midges stop her.

 

2003

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April

• Daily Record 1 April 2003 - Bad Girl To Queen of Crimes. Simone reveals new gangland role at Scots film festival launch. FORMER Bad Girls babe Simone Lahbib will return to our TV screens after a two- year break to star in a new series dubbed Britain's answer to The Sopranos.

 

 

2002

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2001

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June

• The Mirror 30 June 2001 - Interview: Simone Lahbib - How my obsessive fans have freaked me out;
  Simone Lahbib found fame as a bisexual in Bad Girls, but it has led to her being harassed in real life.

March

• Sunday Mail 18 March 2001 - Simone Does A Runner; Scots Stunner Sets Sights on Film Career. TV Bad Girl Simone Lahbib has quit the popular prison drama just days before the launch of a new series. Scots beauty Simone, 30, who plays prison boss Helen Stewart, plans to concentrate on her film career. The news will stun the show's millions of viewers, who have bombarded Bad Girls' stars with mountains of fan mail.
• Evening Standard 16 March 2001 - Simone Interview: So, how does it feel being a lesbian icon? ... She's straight, but a role in Bad Girls has made Simone Lahbib a sex symbol with a gay following.

January

• Sunday Mail 21 January 2001 - That lesbian kiss didn't scare me; Bad Girls' Simone on why she thrives on controversy.

 

 

2000

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April

• The People (London, England) 30 April 2000 My sex attack hell by Bad Girls' Simone;
  Vile doorstep pervert who struck in the dark left TV star in fear of her life. TV BEAUTY Simone Lahbib has told how a terror sex attack on her doorstep left her fearing for her life....

March

• Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland) 25 March 2000 - I used my fists to silence bullying racists;
  HARD LESSONS: SCOTS ACTRESS SIMONE LAHBIB ON THE PLAYGROUND BATTLES SHE HAD TO FIGHT. STUNNING television star Simone Lahbib has revealed her family's torment at the hands of cruel Scots racists.
   

1997

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October

• Daily Record 18 October 1997 - Action girl is kept on her toes. Scots beauty Simone Lahbib's ballet training helped her put her best foot forward when she was transformed into TV's latest action girl.

September

• Sunday Mail - 21 September 1997 - Simone's the new long arm of the law. Despite appearances, Scots actress Simone Lahbib isn't hanging about. In fact, her fast-moving career doesn't even need scaffolding - it was built in Scotland from girders.
   

 

 

 

1996

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May

• Sunday Mail 19 May 1996 LADY AND THE VAMP. It's Lady Chatterley as you've never seen her... not the sex-starved English rose but a lusty Scots lass. "Not many people realise that Connie in Lady Chatterley's Lover is the daughter of a Scots aristocrat," says Simone Lahbib.

February

• Sunday Mirror 4 February 1996 - A drama out of a crisis; for Simone Lahbib, the star of London Bridge, art is uncomfortably mirroring life

 

 

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