EMMERDALE star Samantha Giles has revealed she used to pose nude for £5 an hour when she was “desperate” for money. The 49-year-old actress - best known for playing Bernice Blackstock on the ITV soap - was left “devastated” by a nasty comment one day, but it only spurred her on to be as successful as she is today.
Speaking to The Mirror, she recalled: “I was really desperate for money. I’m not ashamed of it, I wasn’t doing anything terrible.
It paid £5 an hour, which is nothing, but I’d get £15 for an evening, which seemed quite good. "I was only 23, but I’ve never liked my body, so the only way I found I could do it was by not looking down at myself when I dropped the sarong.
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