2011 Year Review
  
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January

  • Ruth loses a patient on the stroke of New Year.

  • Georgia appears in her 150th episode of Casualty

  • Ruth thinks she may have been raped after having flashbacks from a night of clubbing.

  • Ruth is sectioned after trying to perform cranial surgery in the On Call room.

  • Georgia describes her scenes as the "hardest I've ever had to do in my life"

February
  • Georgia appears in her dedicated Place of Safety Casualty episode - probably her greatest acting performance to date. Over  6 million tune in and Georgia trends on twitter.

  • Mental Heath charities MIND and SANE both praise Georgia's portrayal of psychotic breakdown.

  • Georgia jumps the sack for the Cafe Direct charity in Bristol!

  • Georgia celebrates her birthday!

March
  • Georgia says in a video interview that she's pleased to have her own dressing room back after 4 months of location filming!

  • Georgia is interviewed on the Graham Norton Radio show where she chooses "A Man Needs To Be Told" by the Charlatans as her special record.

  • Georgia's 1st Red Button Casualty, involving a horse, episode is shown.

April
  • Georgia gives a 2nd video interview about her 2nd Casualty Red Button episode.

  • Sarah Evans takes Ruth for cream tea in the snow and Ruth takes Charlie jogging.

  • Georgia's 2nd Red Button Casualty episode is shown in which she plays chess against a mysterious stranger.

  • Ruth has a day trip away from the secure psychiatric unit back to the ED.

May
  • Ruth returns to work in Holby's CDU department.

  • Georgia is nominated for the TV Choice Best Actress award.

June
  • Ruth passes her psychiatric assessment interview with Andrew Brookfield allowing her to work again as a doctor.

  • Toyah is given a big mention in Corrie as Leanne shows her new mum, Stella, photographs of the Battersbys on her fridge door.

July
  • Toyah misses her train to Leanne's 30th birthday on Corrie.

  • Ruth looks after Charlie's granddaughter Meagan on the first day of her probationary period returning as a doctor.

August
  • The Bristol exterior set is blown up in explosive pyrotechnic scenes which are to part of Georgia and Ben's exit storyline.

  • Casualty holds a huge party at a city restaurant to celebrate the end of 25 years of filming in Bristol and also to say goodbye to Georgia and Ben.

  • Georgia and Ben stay another week to finish filming their final ever Casualty scenes.

  • Ruth's scrubs are among many items of Casualty memorabilia auctioned off to raise over £2000 pounds for the Bristol Royal Infirmary Children's hospital.

 

September
  • Georgia's two big Casualty episodes, Before A Fall and Place of Safety are voted by viewers as their 2nd and 4th favourite ever episodes in an online poll to coincide with Casualty's 25th year. 
  • The ribbon is cut on the new Casualty studios in Cardiff. Curiously Georgia or Ben don't appear in the ribbon-cutting photo.
  • Georgia gives her support to Mental Health charity, Rethink
  • Ruth and Jay kiss passionately in the staff room.
  • Georgia and Casualty are nominated for the MIND Media Drama Award.
  • Georgia makes the NTA long list for Best Female Drama Performance.

October
  • Betty Driver, who played Corrie's Betty, sadly passed away aged 91.

  • Ruth and Jay try to keep their relationship a secret from work colleagues and its not the only thing they've been keeping secret...!

  • On Oct 20th the holby.tv website officially announces that Georgia and Ben Turner have left Casualty in an extremely dramatic exit to be shown in December.

  • Georgia starts filming for a guest appearance in Inspector Lewis, "a lovely little part and totally different from Ruth"

November
  • Georgia completes filming her guest appearance on Inspector Lewis.

  • Ruth finds out she's pregnant.

  • Georgia comes first and second in the Casualty Best Ever Acting Performance category in the holby.tv Awards.

  • Georgia and Casualty win the Mind Media Award for Drama for Place Of Safety.

December
  • Georgia lends her support to the Runaways charity.

  • Georgia and Ben's final episodes are shown as they escape a blaze of glory and leave Bristol in a camper van called Rosie over Clifton suspension bridge.

  • Georgia is one of Rethink charity's Heroes Of The Year.

  • Georgia, in various interviews about her future career, says she would like to either;

  1. Reinvent Toyah and return to Corrie

  2. Do some more theatre

  3. Do some comedy

  4. Work again with Ken Loach's son, Jim.

  5. Appear in Mad Men.


2011 was definitely a passionate year for Georgia's character Ruth!



Highlights of 2011 - A year in which Georgia decided to move on once again.
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