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A Week In The Life... Of A Production Secretary

Friday 20 March
Gemma Merna (Carmel) pops in to production to pick up a call sheet.

Wednesday

Jaki: Its been an exhausting day.

Becky: We had more artist sickness this morning. A scene that got dropped yesterday was put on today, so we booked the 18 extras again and then we had artist sickness again so all those extras that we've paid for twice have gone down the drain! Basically, we've just had to change things.

J: Ricky (Calvin) should be coming in tomorrow, but whether Ricky with his fat eye can perform remains to be seen. That's one shoot that may go up the swan tomorrow. We've had to change a shoot with Kieran Richardson because he was meant to be in two places at once. Now people who thought they had lovely a day off tomorrow have now unfortunately been brought in by myself - well, I'm only the messenger! The call sheets are just getting checked by the managers and hopefully they won't discover any more problems.

B: We've got our nice freelancer Tracy in tomorrow who comes in from time to time to cover sickness and holidays.

A Week In The Life continued...

The lovely ladies: Becky Pollock and Jaki Lucas AKA The Hollyoaks production secretaries.Jaki peruses over the shooting schedule.Cause of controversy: Holly Jay (Michaela) tucks into some carrots and cucumber... for breakfast!Gemma Merna (Carmel) pops in to production to pick up a call sheet.
Hanging with the resource department.Ricky Whittle (Calvin) returns with his A production secretary transcends various locations. Here they find Claire Cooper in make-up.Glen Wallace (Malachy) was as happy as Larry when anticipating his fanmail.
Nick Pickard's (Tony's) check out the schedule in the production office.Sometimes the production secretaries have to keep Andy Moss (Rhys) in line with a bit of brute force!The amount of phone calls that Becky and Jaki have to make on a Friday is so mammoth that Tony Hirst (Mike Barnes) occasionally pops round to lend a helping hand.




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