Emmerdale star celebrates turning 50 with her nearest and dearest this week.Entering into a new decade in her life, the actress has enjoyed a rich and varied career on the small screen, appearing in some of the UK's biggest soaps since the mid-nineties.Without a doubt, she is best known as Emmerdale's Bernice Blackstock, whose character recently returned to the village after a spell spent Down Under.Prompting scenes of heartbreak, Bernice jilted her fiancé Liam Cavanagh (Jonny McPherson) in late 2019, leaving him to go tend to her poorly ex-husband in Australia.Liam has since found love with beautician Leyla Harding (Roxy Shahidi), the sweethearts planning a lovestruck wedding of their own - only for the special day to be scuppered by.
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