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As Brits in LA go, former soap actress Judi Shekoni has more staying power than any other expat I know. So it came as no surprise to me when I opened up my Facebook this morning to find a lovely message from the aspiring star, saying, “Hope you’re well! Guess whose gonna be a vampire in Twilight!!!”
On Tuesday Summit Entertainment announced that Judi has been added to the cast of The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn in the role of Zafrina.
Zafrina has lived outside of civilization for centuries, making no attempt to keep up a human façade; her character is among the oldest vampires in the world, descendants of an ancient Amazonian tribe.
Amazonian Zafrina, and Judi have much in common it seems (apart from their long legs). It too feels like Shekoni’s been around forever, once a jobbing model in London, Judi finally got her break playing Precious on BBC TV’s hit soap Eastenders a little over 8 years ago.
From there Shekoni practically landed on every tabloid magazine cover that Britain had to offer – her PR people literally milked it. Then she hopped on a plane to Hollywood chasing her dream and like so many Brits who arrive expecting the earth it all went rather quiet for her apart from the odd telly appearance here and there, until now…
Congratulations Miss Shekoni, I can only imagine what Tinsletown has in store for you from here on, if 2002 is anything to go by.
Time to vacuum the red carpets and get them ready for Judi Shekoni, I say… As nobody knows your determination quite so well as me, I was the one putting you on all those magazine covers many moons ago, remember?!
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