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BAD GIRLS REUNITED

It’s a teenage dream come true: I’m face to face with actors Simone Lahbib and Mandana Jones – better known as Larkhall wing governor Helen Stewart and lifer Nikki Wade. Their love story in ITV drama Bad Girls captured my baby gay heart and the hearts of a million other women-loving women in the late 90s and early noughties, and even today, 20 years since they left the show, we’re still utterly obsessed. Ahead of a third eagerly anticipated reunion event in September, raising much-needed funds for the Eilidh Brown Memorial Fund (eilidhbrown.co.uk), I had to know, what are Helen and Nikki doing now?

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