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"Hollyoaks newcomer Lena Kaur has praised producers for not stereotyping Asians on the programme. The actress, who plays Leila Roy, revealed that she has been impressed with her character&amp;#039;s storylines since she joined the show alongside Stephen Uppal, better known as her on-screen brother Ravi, earlier this year. Kaur told Take 5 magazine: &amp;quot;The storylines for me and Stephen aren&amp;#039;t being dictated by the colour of our skin. We&amp;#039;re both British Asians in real life as well as in the show. We are both totally westernised. We&amp;#039;ve been brought up in Britain, so the storylines will reflect people like Stephen and me.&amp;quot; Lena also admitted that she was asked to pose in her underwear for the Hollyoaks calendar before she had even filmed a scene for the Channel 4 soap. &amp;quot;The calendar is a great tradition on the show and there are only 12 girls in it, so I was so flattered to be asked,&amp;quot; she said. &amp;quot;I think if you&amp;#039;re going to play a part on the show, you might as well do it properly and do all the promotional stuff for it as well.&amp;quot; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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