TV legend unable to find acting job after show axe reveals big change

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Former Holby City star Rosie Marcel has revealed a huge change to her life following the show’s axing.

Rosie portrayed the role of Jac Naylor in the BBC One medical drama, who died in the final ever episode back in 2022.

The sudden loss of a much-loved show meant cast and crew were forced to find work elsewhere. For Rosie, she told us earlier this year that while she’s enjoyed adapting to her new life and spending more time with her family post-Holby, she also was yet to return to the acting world:

‘I haven’t worked! It’s been incredibly quiet for me work front, but incredibly busy for me life front. I’m not entirely sure how I managed to do that job for so long because when you stop, you suddenly realise you’re exhausted and my day is just full! It’s been a very tough few years for us, I’m hoping by doing something positive and moving in a positive direction it’ll filter into the rest of our lives.

‘It took a lot from all of us, on a deep personal level we all loved our characters and we all loved each other like family, someone put a stop to that and it’s hard’, she added.

‘If it hadn’t ended, I would still be there and I probably wouldn’t be as happy as I am now. My life is so far away from what it was, and I am so grateful in some ways that it ended because I’ve had so much time with my family and my daughter and working out what I want to do. I can’t really go back, plus that last episode kills me!’.

Rosie is still keeping herself busy and recently, updated her social media with some pretty big life news.

Outside in the windy autumnal weather, Rosie spoke to camera and said:

‘A lot of you have been wondering what we’re up to now that I don’t seem to be able to get an acting job, and unfortunately Ben’s [her husband] other gym has closed down. We’ve found ourselves both unemployed, running out of money fast. What we did was, we put in planning permission for one of our barns at the stables, to build another house.’

She added: ‘We got the planning permission in July, and we were going to embark on building a house there to sell, but we had some lovely neighbours who came along and offered to buy the plot with the planning, which was great!’

‘The money we got from the sale of the land is going to pay for us to do our house up, finally, after three and a half years. We’re really looking forward to it. That’s what we’re up to, we’re unemployed, yay!’.

The post prompted many of Rosie’s followers to comment on her post, hoping she will return to our screens in a new role soon.

During our chat with the Holby star in March, Rosie also spoke about the change in the TV landscape.

‘I think it’s the end of an era’, she said, noting the axing of Doctors as well.

‘It’s been a long time coming and I think it started with The Bill, I think it will continue, I don’t think people watch continuing drama or serial as much as they used to.

‘I think the onset of being able to download whatever you want or binge watch whatever you want, it can be incredibly damaging. But also, I think big series have lost their way in terms of writing.

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She continued: ‘I don’t see the writing anymore – it happened to Holby apart from our last six months. I think that’s happening a lot, in a lot of TV shows. It’s very sad people aren’t being given a chance to hone their craft or being taught by their peers.

‘It’s a very saturated industry – I went up for a job recently for Netflix and it was 6000 people up for the same role. It’s a really changeable industry and I think people have fought against it too much, and they need to just go with the change.

‘If you want to save programmes like Emmerdale, Casualty or EastEnders, I think you have to really be more incredibly creative these days than you’ve ever been.’

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