article_snippet: The actress, 41, pictured earlier this year (right), has since fallen on harder times .
article_snippet: Describing her new vocation on Twitter, the out-of-work actress said: 'I help my mate at her @thebillnicn17 it makes me feel useful and I laugh all day.'
article_snippet: In recent years, the out-of-work actress has appeared on reality television and even had a stint in Los Angeles, but is now keeping the out-of-work actress busy in the Queen Vic pub in EastEnders, a stone's throw from the Spurs ground.
article_snippet: Eighties' television heroes who turned to alternative careers when the work dried up have included Tom Watt, who graced the screens as asthmatic Lofty in EastEnders, and is now a football writer and Zammo from Grange Hill, who keeps people secure with a locksmith and key-cutting shop in Surrey.
article_snippet: Lee McDonald aka Zammo, star of the hit '
article_snippet: No' teen drugs campaign in the Eighties, now runs a locksmith and key-cutting shop in Surrey .