Gemma Bissix

Away from soap opera, Bissix has appeared in various television programmes and she competed in the 2009 series of Dancing on Ice.

Bissix was born in St Peter's Hospital in Chertsey, Surrey, UK, the eldest of five siblings.

[3] She is a patron of the White Lodge Centre[4] for disabled adults and children in Chertsey, and hosts charity auctions at her father's bar, Reds, in Weybridge.

In April 2006, she joined the cast of the Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks, playing Clare Devine (later Cunningham).

[13] Bissix appeared in the fourth episode of ITV musical drama series, Britannia High, titled Fame.

[14] She toured in Victor Leigh's stage play The Game Of Murder for two months, beginning August 2009.

[18] Bissix toured the UK as Shirley Smith in Mike Stott's comedy play, Funny Peculiar, in 2012.

[19] On 14 March 2008, Bissix appeared on a Sport Relief special of Strictly Come Dancing, with cricketer Darren Gough, to raise money for the charity appeal.

She was partnered with Andrei Lipanov, but became the first female to be eliminated after failing to win the judges support in the skate-off with Melinda Messenger.

'[20] She later took part in the Sense City Ice Skate challenge in support of Sense-National Deafblind and Rubella Association.

Since 2009, Bissix has been a panellist on some editions of the Channel 5 talk show The Wright Stuff contributing to a newspaper review and topical debate.