CHERYL Fergison sang for her old EastEnders job back after admitting to being left penniless and using
food banks.
The actress, 60, candidly opened up about her recent financial struggles and the devastating impact it had
had on her life.
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Cheryl Fergison sang a song asking for her old EastEnders job back
Cheryl admitted she turned to Citizens Advice in February of this year after being faced with crippling debts.
Having openly spoken about the struggle at landing acting work and other TV gigs, Cheryl has now been singing for her supper in order to get her old EastEnders job back in a new video.
The star crafted her own lyrics to the EastEnders theme tune in which she suggested a way that she could make a comeback to the BBC soap.
Cheryl suggested that she play Heather Trott’s twin after her original character was killed off in 2012.
She sang: “I want to be a twin.
“I would love to come back… in the programme.”
Cheryl then revealed her potential character would love to reconnect with Shirley Carter, played by Linda Henry, despite the fact she hasn’t been in EastEnders for the last two years.
Her song continued: “To see Shirley, she would be happy to see me!
“Of course, and my baby George, but I would not be Heather – I’d be a dead ender!
“I would come back as Heather’s twin.”
EastEnders’ Cheryl Fergison reveals she was CONNED out of ‘gigantic amount of money’ as she opens up on what led her to seek help from food bank
She then adopted a Scottish accent as she belted out: “She might be from Scotland and she might be called Leather Trott.
“You never know, what they may do! What I would like is to say goodnight to you!”
Hew new plea at another shot at soap stardom comes after she bravely opened up about how she had struggled so much she had been left without enough money to complete a weekly shop.
The 60-year-old told the Mirror: “I sat there and cried and cried. It was shameful. How could I have been on EastEnders?
“How could I have been earning that much money and now I am here?
“It was one of the hardest things I’ve had to do. I found it so difficult to be that vulnerable.
“But I didn’t have any money to do a weekly shop. I was trying to pay too many debts.
“Lots of people can relate to it. You’re trying to find a penny. You’re literally looking down your settee to see if you can find a quid.”
Cheryl recently revealed odd jobs she’s doing to help bring in some cash.
Last week she started flogging tickets for the £15 Cheryl’s Special a slap-up Chinese meal and performance at the restaurant.
Having been open about her financial woes, Cheryl told This Morning how she had been CONNED of thousands of pounds which had begun her downward spiral.
The actress said: “There is a circumstance that started this. which I can’t talk about at this moment in time, but it started to spiral.
“The only way I can say it is I was conned out of a humongous amount of money.
“That led to the cancer thing and everything spiralled. I was robbing Peter to pay Paul.
“I ended up having to sell my house. Now I am living up north and renting.
“When I got money, it would just go. It was frittered away. You think you’re going to be like the lovely Steve McFadden [Phil Mitchell] and be on EastEnders for ever and ever, but you’re not.
“If the jobs don’t come in as quick as they were then you start running low.”
