Wedding Belles
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Wedding Belles is a Scottish
-based British television
drama first broadcast on Channel 4
in 2007.
Amanda is the bride-to-be and the matriarch of the group. She is a successful business woman running her own beauty salon. She is set to marry an airline pilot, Joshua. He appears to be too good to be true but, unknown to Amanda, is hiding a dark secret.
Kelly is a troubled soul who, while battling personal demons, upsets all those around her and starts to lose her hair due to stress.
Rhona is an ex-fashion model, who is not coping well with the untimely death of her fiancé. She slips deeper into depression
and, through the haze of her furthering drug addiction, decides to seek revenge on her fiancé's killer.
Shaz works as a nurse in an old people's home, who almost gets into trouble for selling Viagra to the residents, while having an affair with the local Catholic preist, Father Henry.
Scotland
Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...
-based British television
British television
Public television broadcasting started in the United Kingdom in 1936, and now has a collection of free and subscription services over a variety of distribution media, through which there are over 480 channelsTaking the base Sky EPG TV Channels. A breakdown is impossible due to a) the number of...
drama first broadcast on Channel 4
Channel 4
Channel 4 is a British public-service television broadcaster which began working on 2 November 1982. Although largely commercially self-funded, it is ultimately publicly owned; originally a subsidiary of the Independent Broadcasting Authority , the station is now owned and operated by the Channel...
in 2007.
Plot
Wedding Belles centres around four young women struggling with personal issues, while preparing to throw one of their group the wedding of the year. As the wedding draws nearer, a series of revelations turn their lives into turmoil, and the impending celebration turns into hysterical carnage.Amanda is the bride-to-be and the matriarch of the group. She is a successful business woman running her own beauty salon. She is set to marry an airline pilot, Joshua. He appears to be too good to be true but, unknown to Amanda, is hiding a dark secret.
Kelly is a troubled soul who, while battling personal demons, upsets all those around her and starts to lose her hair due to stress.
Rhona is an ex-fashion model, who is not coping well with the untimely death of her fiancé. She slips deeper into depression
Clinical depression
Major depressive disorder is a mental disorder characterized by an all-encompassing low mood accompanied by low self-esteem, and by loss of interest or pleasure in normally enjoyable activities...
and, through the haze of her furthering drug addiction, decides to seek revenge on her fiancé's killer.
Shaz works as a nurse in an old people's home, who almost gets into trouble for selling Viagra to the residents, while having an affair with the local Catholic preist, Father Henry.
Cast
- Amanda - Michelle GomezMichelle GomezMichelle Gomez is a Scottish actress best known for her comedy roles in Green Wing and The Book Group.-Early life:Her father, originally from Montserrat, was a photographer, while her mother ran a modeling agency...
- Kelly - Shirley HendersonShirley HendersonShirley Henderson is a Scottish actress. She is perhaps best known for her role as Moaning Myrtle in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire .-Early life:...
- Rhona - Shauna MacdonaldShauna MacdonaldShauna Macdonald is a Scottish television and film actress.-Biography:Shauna Macdonald was born in Malaysia and shortly after moved back to her family's native Edinburgh, Scotland, before moving to Glasgow to train at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama.She and her husband, the actor Cal...
- Shaz - Kathleen McDermottKathleen McDermott-Biography:Kathleen is an experienced vocalist, who also enjoys martial arts and snowboarding. She was working as a hairdresser when spotted by the casting director for Morvern Callar. She is best known for her appearance as Shaz in Wedding Belles and Pippa in E4's 2008 series Dead Set...
- Father Henry - Brendan CoyleBrendan Coyle-Early life and family:Coyle was born in Corby, Northamptonshire, to an Irish father and Scottish mother; his parents moved to Corby from Strabane, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. Coyle holds Irish and British citizenship. He is the great nephew of football manager Sir Matt Busby...
- Barney - Michael FassbenderMichael FassbenderMichael Fassbender is an Irish-German actor. He is best known for playing Lt. Archie Hicox in Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds and Magneto in the superhero blockbuster X-Men: First Class...
- Joshua - Jonathan Lewis OwenJonathan Lewis OwenJonny Owen is a Welsh actor and producer. As a teenager he was a Welsh Boys Club Boxing champion. In his later teens he was in the 1990s indie band The Pocket Devils as bass player and lead singer/songwriter...
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