Dickens of a job as Isla takes A NEW TWIST.(Features)

From: Sunday Mail (Glasgow, Scotland) | Date: July 18, 1999| Author: | Copyright information

SCOTS stunner Isla Fisher was once voted high in a glossy magazine's list of the world top 100 sexiest women. She came out ahead of supermodels Caprice and Claudia Schiffer.

But right now, the 23-year-old redhead, who starred as Shannon in the Aussie TV soap Home and Away, isn't relying on her sex appeal or her glam image.

Instead Isla, who finished 11th in that poll of the hottest babes, is busy doing the unthinkable... looking ugly and undesirable. She's in Prague filming ITV's version of the Charles Dickens novel Oliver Twist and playing the most unglamorous role of ...

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