We’re used to seeing her on the small screen playing Bernice Blackstock in Emmerdale, but Samantha Giles has more than one talent up her sleeve.
Her debut children’s novel about a family of witches was a best-seller and has been translated into other languages – and she’s just released the second instalment, Rosemary And The Book Of The Dead.
Like the characters in her books, the actress, 50, identifies as a Wiccan – a follower of a modern pagan religion – and she confesses that she even cast a spell to help meet her husband, Sean Pritchard.
But while their daughters – Eve, 13, and Olivia, nine – get involved in her beliefs, she admits her husband thinks it’s “nonsense”.
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