Simon Rouse (born 24 June 1951) is an English actor, best known for playing the role of Detective Chief Inspector/Superintendent Jack Meadows in the long-running ITV police drama The Bill.
He first appeared on The Bill as Jack Meadows in a semi-regular role with two appearances in 1990 and twice again in 1991. The character of Jack Meadows became a regular between 1992 and 2010.
Rouse was born in Heaton, Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire. Prior to The Bill, he had a long career working mainly with the BBC, appearing twice in their Play for Tomorrow strand, a sci-fi offshoot of the Play for Today series. He also guest starred in the 1982 Doctor Who story Kinda and played an unnamed character simply credited as "Yizzel's mate" in Carla Lane's Bread in 1986.
He later played the role of another police officer, Detective Sergeant Vernon Cooper, in Operation Julie, a three-hour dramatisation (shown in three parts) of the real-life drugs investigation. Coincidentally, Robert Gwilym also appeared as Detective Constable Dan Richard: he would return opposite Rouse for a recurring role in The Bill in 2004.
He's so mean, he's like a girl
He needs it, but never learns
Run faster you might
Feel it tonight
She's amused, she rolls her eyes
He'll beat her and act like he's blind
Run faster tonight
Feel it you might
Feel it tonight
You'll find your wife
He rolls his eyes
Then he turned white
I trusted and lusted
It was my only one
And now it is gone again
Complaining, I hate him
I am the lonely one
Cause now he is gone again
Look, look at her eyes
Why can't she smile, why can't she smile?
Run faster tonight
Feel it you might
Feel it tonight
You'll find your wife
I trusted, and lusted
It was my only one
But now it is gone again
Complaining, I hate him
I am the lonely one
Cause now he is gone again
Again
Again