Catfight between Jennifer Ellison and Adele Stevens
These two teenage soap opera actresses are regarded as being two of the hottest young things on British TV. Jennifer stars in the Channel 4 soap ‘Brookside’ set on a Liverpool housing estate. Her character, Emily Shadwell, is a blonde minx who specialises in house breaking, exacting revenge on the woman who had an affair with her father (later killed in a bomb explosion), and running away with her boyfriend all while wearing outrageously sexy outfits. (Shops at PVC trousers R us!)
Adele appears in the ITV rural soap opera ‘Emmerdale’ as a feisty Londoner Kelly Glover, who moved to Yorkshire with her family. Her character struts and pouts her way across the screen invariably wearing sexy outfit (usually short skirts and knee boots) which are certainly not the norm for rural England. Her character is also a cross between a minx and a bitch who was made pregnant by her step brother, married the village idiot and argues intermably with other characters in a grating London accent.
The fight
When Maxim magazine decided to spread featuring the 12 sexiest women in British soap operas they realised the size of the ego’s would be tantamount to lighting a stick of dynamite. Their solution was to limit the shoot to one or two women a day and keeping actresses from opposing shows apart. This went well until Adele couldn’t appear at her allotted time and an ignorant assistant re-scheduled her for the same day as Jennifer. Although the two young women only very rarely met and couldn’t be described as enemies, they had shared some bitchy words. Adele regarded herself as a serious actress marking her time and Jennifer as stupid blonde Britney Spears wannabe. Jennifer regarded Adele as an over paid under talented tramp. This rivalry was upped several notches when they appeared for the photo-shoot. Jennifer was chauffeured to the studio, but Adele got the better changing room and the pick of the outfits. Jennifer who was being photographed first insisted on several changes of outfits which kept Miss Silva waiting.