Emmerdale Faith Dingle's tragic cancer storyline inspired by late BGT star

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Emmerdale’s Sally Dexter has confessed that she has started to feel unwell after playing the role of terminally ill Faith Dingle on the ITV series for so long. The 62-year-old bid a final farewell to viewers over on the soap's YouTube channel where the actress shared some of her favourite moments working on the show.

EMMERDALE fans have been left furious that Chas Dingle played away as her mum Faith tragically died. Faith (Sally Dexter) passed away after making the heartbreaking decision to end her own life following her tough cancer battle which has seen her grow increasingly weaker in recent weeks.

MERE days before celebrating an explosive anniversary, ITV viewers had to bid Faith Dingle a heartfelt farewell. Emmerdale bosses revealed a goodbye video featuring actress Sally Dexter after her on-screen death was aired last night. The hour-long instalment focused on the character and her family as the Dingles realised their time with Faith had officially and unexpectedly ran out.

It probably comes as no surprise that there were more tears for viewers of Emmerdale as the latest episode aired. The ITV soap was back on screens on Wednesday evening (October 12) and showed Faith Dingle being surprised with a day at the seaside. While she couldn't make the long trip to Whitby to relive earlier years with her children, Cain, Chas and the rest of the Dingle clan pulled out all the stops and brought the fun to her in the village.

Faith Dingle’s devastating final Emmerdale scenes were inspired by the death of a much-loved Britain’s Got Talent contestant, it has been revealed. Tina Humphrey went down in BGT history after wowing viewers of the ITV talent contest with a show-stopping performance with her dog Chandi in 2010 - paving the way for similar acts to follow. But, seven years later, Tina took her own life after enduring an agonising struggle with cancer.

Emmerdale actress Sally Dexter has told how she and the soap's producers were moved to tears after the husband of late Britain's Got Talent contestant Tina Humphrey detailed her tragic death to help with a storyline. Dog trainer Tina - who wowed television audiences with her dancing blue merle collie Chandi and finished fifth in the final of the 2010 series - fought the aggressive form of cancer, metastasised melanoma, for more than a year before she died at the age of 45 in 2017. And her photographer partner Steve, 66, who met Tina in November 2015, recalled for ITV bosses how she made the heartbreaking decision to end her life by swallowing a toxic cocktail of drugs to honour her in an upcoming plot involving Sally's character Faith Dingle.

Emmerdale's Faith Dingle actress - Sally Dexter - has revealed that she wanted her character die a different way ahead of the soap's 50th anniversary.Spoilers for the soap have recently confirmed that Faith Dingle dies this month in a devastating storyline after a heart breaking breast cancer diagnosis. Deciding to end her own life after battling cancer, Faith will slip away in scenes that will air next week.READ NEXT: Emmerdale’s Faith Dingle dies in devastating storyline as Chas misses out on goodbyeSpeaking ahead of her dramatic exit from the ITV soap, the actress who portrays Faith - Sally - has opened up about how she envisioned her departure."I always knew Faith was coming back to die," she explained in a pre-departure interview."My idea was to have her save Cain and Chas from some sort of attack in the Woolie - say from a bullet or a knife aimed at her children from a crazed intruder," she went on."I could picture her sliding down the side of the bar, with Cain and Chas declaring her a heroine! But the story Jane (Hudson) and the team wanted was a far more important and difficult one to tell."I only hope we have done as much justice as we could."She went on to address how the subject of Faith's death has caused a lot of debate."The research team have dug deep for us throughout this whole storyline.