Footballers' Wives (season 1)

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Footballers' Wives Season 1
DVD cover
Country	United Kingdom
Network	ITV
Original runs	January 8, 2002 – February 26, 2002
No. of episodes	8
DVD Release Date	January 27, 2003
DVD Format	Widescreen

This article contains a summary of the first season of the United Kingdom drama television series Footballers' Wives.

The season first premiered on January 8, 2002 and concluded on February 26, 2002 with a total of 8 episodes.

1 Cast
- 1.1 Starring
- 1.2 Notable guest stars
2 Ratings
3 Plot summary

[edit] Cast

[edit] Starring

[edit] Notable guest stars

Daniel Schutzmann - Salvatore Biagi
Lee-Anne Baker - Lara Bateman
Philip Bretherton - Stefan Hauser
Micaiah Dring - Marie Minshull
Sam Graham - Archie Malloch
Chad Shepherd - Ron Bateman
Paula Wilcox - Marguerite Laslett

[edit] Ratings

Approx 10 million viewers per episode, in the United Kingdom.

[edit] Plot summary

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

The series follows a group of footballers' wives whose husbands all play for the same team, Earls Park (nicknamed "Sparks"). Ian Warmsley, Sparks' latest signing, deals with his up-and-coming success. His wife Donna is more concerned with getting their son back from the woman who adopted him after her parents forced her to give him up when she was a mere teenager. Trouble crops up when their 8-year-old daughter is kidnapped from school in the final episode of the series.

Donna's younger sister Marie is staying with them, causing all the trouble she can. She has a secret fling with Sparks' mid-fielder and ruthless bad boy Jason Turner, who is married to the beautiful, yet vile, Tanya, TV's megabitch. Tanya is too busy to worry about the affair as she tries to save her husband's job when club owner Frank Laslett buys Italian stallion Sal Biagi, who takes Jason's job. Tanya and Jason take matters into their own hands on the way home from a club dinner, and in a drunken brawl, Tanya puts Frank into a coma. With the help of Jason, they push his car off the side of the road, making it look like a drunken accident.

Frank is in a coma, and it's Tanya's job to keep up appearances, trying to look like the innocent party whilst trying to befriend Nurse Dunkley, who is taking care of Frank. But looks can be deceiving, as Tanya walks in on Dunkley riding Frank's lifeless body. Tanya, who frequently visits Frank in hospital and is convinced he remembers what happened that night, surprises Nurse Dunkley when she walks in on the rape. Tanya keeps the information secret, but uses the information to manipulate Dunkley into switching off Frank's life support, telling her that she and Frank were having an affair, and that she can't bear to see him in pain.

With Frank's son convinced its for the best, Frank's family (plus Tanya and Dunkley) gather round as they bid farewell, but something goes wrong - Frank wakes up just before the switch-off goes ahead. Soon, Frank is on his feet again, convinced that he and Tanya are still an item. He lets Jason have his job back, and all is well again, apart from the affair. Jason isn't one bit happy about the fact his wife is shagging his boss, so he and Tanya hatch a plan to end the affair with the help of Hazel, a corrupt, fiery redhead and ruthless agent to the stars.

On the night of one of Tanya's and Frank's steamy rendezvous, Frank injures Tanya, who then locks herself away in the bathroom. Enter Jason, who sees what Frank has done to his wife and goes berserk. But one blow to Frank's head causes him to remember everything. Memories from the night he went into a coma come flooding back to Frank.

Meanwhile, things are far from perfect for Kyle and his wife Chardonnay. The soon-to-be-married couple's relationship goes downhill during page 3-pin-up Chardonnay's night out with the girls - some rowdy rival football hooligans set fire to her chest. Determined not to let this get in the way, they go ahead with their fairytale wedding, dwarves and all. They even get a phone call from the hospital, telling them that Chardonnay is pregnant. But the wrong woman received the call, and it is, in fact, Kyle's meddling mother Jackie who is pregnant. Jackie decides to give up her baby to a couple in need of their own: Kyle and Chardonnay. With a little convincing, Kyle soon warms up to the idea of having a son and agrees to the decision. But wait, who can the father be? Of course, it's Jason Turner.

Footballers' Wives
Episode list • Season 1 • Season 5 • Official site
Main Characters	Tanya Turner • Jason Turner • Chardonnay Lane-Pascoe • Jackie Pascoe-Webb Amber Gates • Conrad Gates • Lucy Milligan-Lochhart • Bruno Milligan Liberty Baker-Gidigbi • Tremaine Gidigbi • Urszula Rosen
Other	Footballers' Wives: Extra Time • Football Wives