Revenge
star Ashley Madekwe. Source: Supplied
Debbie Schipp, The Sunday Telegraph, reports
She may not be familiar with the form guide or the Melbourne Cup field, but Revenge star Ashley Madekwe is set to kick it home in the fashion stakes at Flemington on Tuesday.
Madekwe, who plays scheming social climber Ashley Davenport on hit US drama Revenge, flies into Australia today as Channel 7's Melbourne Cup guest.
The British-born actress scored a couple of days off filming the second season of Revenge to make the trip, where she will indulge her love of fashion.
"I've never been to the races. The closest I've been is polo, but I'm excited," Madekwe says.
Madekwe started her own personal style blog, Ring My Bell, in 2008, and its popularity has gone through the roof since Revenge became a hit.
She is heavily involved in styling her character Ashley on the program.
"It's the perfect clothes horse show, and our costume director comes in with a huge rack, presents the items she thinks are great, and we decide together," Madekwe says. "On shooting days I have all my accessories and I style the final look."
Madekwe will frock up in an Australian designer's outfit for Cup day, but the jury is out on whether she'll wear a hat, a fascinator, or go without a headpiece.
"I know it's supposedly required, but I looked and Sarah Jessica Parker didn't, so maybe I can get away with it too," she says.
Madekwe shot episode nine of Revenge before heading to Melbourne and says viewers can expect to see a tougher Ashley - and learn more of her back story - in season two.
"I don't know that she's going to be more nasty or conniving - well, maybe a little - it's just she is going to be more out for herself," she says.
And expect fireworks between Ashley and one of the show's biggest personalities.
Revenge was Seven's biggest drama hit this year, averaging 1.8 million viewers, and season two will headline Seven's 2013 ratings assault following the network's Australian Open tennis coverage.
Madekwe married fellow actor Iddo Goldberg (the pair met as co-stars on Showtime series Secret Life of a Call Girl) in England in June, but he isn't coming to Melbourne with her.
Instead, she will have great mate Tolga Safer, who had a role in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, in tow, and plans to catch up with another pal, Mischa Barton, who is a guest of Emirates on Cup day.
"I haven't seen Mischa since our wedding. She's been in England and I've been in LA so we have swapped lives. I can't wait to surprise her," Madekwe says.
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