The Sun<\/a>,\u00a0she said: “Until I have steady work, I\u2019m not rich or comfortable\u2014I\u2019m just surviving.\n<\/p>\n\n “I\u2019ve been saying yes to everything for no money, but I need to start valuing my work and asking for fair pay. Even my agent insists on it.”\n<\/p>\n
\n After acting work dried up for a time, she was forced to perform in a local Chinese restaurant to make some money.\n<\/p>\n
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\n She said: “I\u2019ll never give in. I want to keep singing. If people criticise me for singing in small\u00a0restaurants, so be it.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cAt the end of the day, I\u2019m an entertainer. Community has always been important to me, and I\u2019ll perform no matter the crowd.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cIf only two people show up, I don\u2019t care\u2014I\u2019m still being paid, and I\u2019ll still give it my all.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cheryl Fergison, who played\u00a0the role of\u00a0Heather Trott on the BBC soap opera, faced the\u00a0medical emergency in May. EastEnders…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":369083,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3937],"tags":[77,382,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-369082","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-tv","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115082235912539795","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}