The shock news about Kira is that some viewers found her irritating - all that relentless ebullience. Luisa Bradshaw-White insists her character is lovable, but concedes that she does go on: ' I admit, though, I would have punched her by now.'

Luisa cut her acting teeth in Grange Hill - and claims that the five years she spent there were responsible for all those dropped aitches. ' I used to speak real lovely.' From Grange Hill she graduated to roles in The Brittas Empire and The Bill - 'girlfriend of a rapist, daughter of a criminal, that sort of thing.' She claims she would have been prepared to kill for the role of Kira. 'It was me.' And she adds, it was a great laugh. We can imagine.