Claire Goose

The actress told celebrity chef James Martin she had supposed to only feature in one episode of the show but ended up spending four series playing Amelia ...

She was like 'right, OK, well then you need to do drama', so they just found a local drama school and it just sort of went from there really." And then I think it was maybe a couple of weeks after I'd finished, I was asked to go read for the pilot of Waking The Dead with Trevor Eve and Sue Johnston and I just thought 'oh yeah, I'll go and do that'. Her and James then laughed when the latter mentioned the fact Mel was killed off a few years later instead. "Actually, to be fair, I did ask that," she explained. So I wasn't really aware that you could do that as a profession. The former Casualty star was appearing on [ITV1's](https://www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk/all-about/itv) James Martin's Saturday Morning during which the celebrity chef cooked her a chicken escalope dish. Speaking about the show, in which she played Amelia 'Mel' Silver, revealed she was actually only supposed to be in it for one episode. But Claire revealed to James - who runs The Lydon Arms in the "They (the producers) were like 'really, do we have to kill you off?' and I was like 'yeah, go on, just do it'." "Anyway, we shot the pilot and at the end of the pilot and then I found out at the end of the pilot my character Mel was actually supposed to die and they just loved what we were all doing as a team of five of us, so they rewrote it and kept me alive - and then killed me four years later." Speaking about her time on Waking The Dead, Claire told James: "I said to the producers of casualty I wanted to do three years and go and I had nothing to go on to. [Cotswolds](https://www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk/all-about/cotswolds) - her grizzly ending was her own doing.