Samantha Giles is best known for playing the character Bernice Blackstock in ITV's Emmerdale. The actress returned to the soap last year as she turned 50 - and has had a varied career in TV after appearing in the biggest soaps since the late-nineties.
The star has an interesting life tale away from cameras though, as she identifies as a Wiccan – a follower of a modern pagan religion.
She even met her partner Sean Pritchard after casting a spell. Speaking to OK! last year, she said: "I met him three months after the spell. "It’s about things being aligned.
Sometimes people say to me, 'I put this thought out there and it didn’t work!' But sometimes things aren’t in the right place so you have to let them go until it’s time." In an appearance on ITV's Lorraine, Samantha revealed she uses candles and crystals in her magic. "I wrote down exactly what I was after.
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