WHERE ARE THEY NOW? Samantha Janus – Talk About Pop Music

Actress Samantha Janus had “A Message To Your Coronary heart” for Eurovision in 1991 hoping for the primary win in a decade. Recreation on!

19 yr outdated wannabe actress and singer Samantha Janus was chosen out of all of the unknown’s to symbolize the UK on the Eurovision Tune Contest in 1991. She adopted Emma the earlier yr, who had come sixth with “Give A Little Love Again To The World“, with one more Paul Curtis written tune, “A Message To Your Coronary heart”. The ceremony was to be held in Rome, Italy and and not using a win for ten years, the UK was determined to get again within the recreation. Maybe of be aware was Samantha’s backing singers, or reasonably back-up singers for the present, being one Package Rolfe, Belle of Belle and The Devotions and 80’s chart star Hazell Dean! Sadly, the tune didn’t ignite any curiosity or get its message throughout and got here in tenth, the bottom performing entry since Rikki’s “Solely The Gentle” in 1987. When launched as a single, “A Message To Your Coronary heart” peaked at No.30 within the charts, slighly greater than her predecesor had accomplished a yr earlier.

Fortunately Samantha give up the music enterprise and centered on her appearing profession, which featured various bit elements on tv. She made her title and obtained her massive break in 1995 when she co-starred as Mandy within the BBC comedy sequence, Recreation On, which ran for 3 years. After that she mixed stage work together with movie roles earlier than touchdown the a part of Ronnie Mitchell within the cleaning soap opera, Eastenders. Her first run lasting from 2007-2011 and after a two yr break, she returned in 2013 for an additional 4 years price. Samantha performed Michelle Unwin, mom to ‘Eggsy’ within the so-far made two Kingsman movies, ‘The Secret Service’ in 2017 and its comply with up ‘The Golden Circle’ in 2019. She will principally be seen on stage lately however made her comeback to comedy in 2021’s Buffering.