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Best and worst child soap actors?

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MiaWallace · 20/02/2007 07:26

I love Belle from Emmerdale. She's very funny and natural, and always make me smile.

Ben from Eastenders on the other hand arrggghh I just wish Stella had used the superglue to glue is annoying little mouth up

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Quootiepie · 20/02/2007 07:27

I like the little boy from Hollyoaks... Tom

pinkchampagne · 20/02/2007 07:46

Best: Chesney from Coronation St

Wosrt: Rebecca from Eastenders, followed closly by Ben!

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MiaWallace · 20/02/2007 08:51

Yeah got to agree that Rebecca was awful

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MrsFish · 20/02/2007 17:15

Ben from Eastenders, god he is just awful, horrible little thing, otoh Chesney from Corrers is great.

suzycreamcheese · 20/02/2007 17:26

ches is great..and sophie too is good..from corrie..could give some of the adults (diredrie and ken for instance) a few lessons

treacletart · 20/02/2007 18:20

The guy who was runner up in X factor was fabulous when he was a lad in Brookside

Eddas · 20/02/2007 22:14

Tom in hollyoaks or Belle in emmerdale.

I too think Ben is really annoying in eastenders and that Rebecca was awful too.

Tinker · 20/02/2007 22:18

Cassie Carpenter (80s Eastenders) has to have been one of the best (worst)

Plibble · 20/02/2007 22:22

Tom in Hollyoaks is great.
Rebecca from Eastenders was awful - even the way she pronounced "paulINE" annoyed me...

pinkbubble · 20/02/2007 22:24

Im sorry to say but I absolutely loved Hayley Mills in The Parent Trap, after tat film everytime she was acting in a film i loved it! (the old Parent Trap)

puffling · 20/02/2007 22:25

Remember Bunny's girlfriend in El Dorado.
Also, Bet Lynch's charge who married Steve for a bit played by Chloe Newsome. She was a dreadful actor.

wheresthehamster · 20/02/2007 22:56

The worst one from Corrie was the girl who played Tracy when she was young.

themoon66 · 20/02/2007 23:15

Chesney is corrie is lovely.

suzycreamcheese · 20/02/2007 23:16

hamster..she was wooden..

and do you remember peter barlow from years and years ago w/ very large nose? he had woodworm and such a cringy accent..

Molesworth · 20/02/2007 23:23

Bert's grandson in enders - he rocks!

quietmouse · 23/02/2007 16:51

Ben from Eastenders.

Everything about him is awful. Phil (surprisingly) must have the patience of a saint. I would have sent back to South Africia by now! (on a one way ticket)

juicychops · 23/02/2007 17:18

god i agree. Ben in eastenders makes me cringe!

deaconblue · 24/02/2007 14:08

I like Tom from Holyoaks and Chesney but little Abby had me pmsl when she sang Bright Eyes on Eastenders last night.

HappyHeadache · 24/02/2007 15:25

if ben was bought up in south africa why does he have a cockny accent

pinkchampagne · 24/02/2007 15:29

I have to admit that Ben is a pretty poor actor. It seems Eastenders just pull random children off the streets, because none of the children on there can act!

quietmouse · 24/02/2007 21:49

I agree. They don't cast at all well. There seems to be no thought as to whether the children can actually act, what they look like etc etc....

even what race they are sometimes. Does anyone remember Ben as a baby? He started off bald and white and then as a toddler became Asian looking with jet black hair.

Surely it can't be that hard to actually find child actors who can act and look a little bit like the soap parent?

Moomin · 24/02/2007 23:31

LOVE Chesney. Generally Corrie kids beat Stenders ones hands-down, although Amy Barlow is a bit scary. She looks uncannily like her screen mum....

Worst ever child on screen was Christopher, Pam and Bobby's son in Dallas. God bless him, but a more gormless child there never was. Think has was one of the director's sons.

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MiaWallace · 25/02/2007 14:10

Amy is very cute, but she has got a vacant expression like she has just been dumped into the middle of the set and hasn't a clue what is going on.

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nappyaddict · 07/05/2007 21:10

best: sophie, chesney, belle and darren from EE.

worst: ben

most annoying: tom and ben

i wish they'd give beth more speaking to do in corrie. emmerdale have shown that soap children don't have to be locked in their bedrooms all the time as they seem to be on all the other soaps until they turn about 10.

mshadowsnumber1fan · 07/05/2007 21:35

best abbie in eastenders
worst ben and rebeca in east enders