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Emmerdale's Zoe Henry reacts to cast announcement as former EastEnders star joins soap
Emmerdale star Zoe Henry has reacted to the news that a former EastEnders actress was set to join the ITV soap’s cast.The TV star took to Twitter today to share her excitement over Emmerdale’s latest update with her 104,600 followers.She retweeted a post shared by Emmerdale’s official Twitter account that read: “Casting news: Louise Jameson joins Emmerdale!”Zoe added: “Excited?…Me?? HELL YES!!” alongside a string of emojis, including a love heart.Louise quote-tweeted Zoe’s message, adding: “I'm the fortunate one.” along with three red love hearts.Fans of the TV classic seemed overjoyed too as the tweet received 254 likes.Twitter user Millionaires2b tweeted: “What fantastic opportunity to work with this brilliant actress.“I wasn't in the UK when she was in Emmerdale before as I lived in BC Canada.“Was it Emmerdale or Emmerdale farm when she was in it.“I will Google her character.”Coronation Street star Stirling Gallacher said: “I’ve worked with Louise… she’s a fantastic woman!“Lucky you, lucky @emmerdale xxx”Mattbarraclough added: “Aww it's Rosa De Marco.“Loving her on classic eastenders at the moment.“Brilliant addition to an already amazing cast.”Juliarmurgy simply stated: “Absolutely Brilliant News.”Last year, Zoe’s husband, Emmerdale actor Jeff Hordley, revealed the reason why he quit the soap in 2006 after six years on the programme.The Cain Dingle actor explained he wanted to explore other areas of his life before returning to television.Speaking on Mike Artistik's Ego Podcast, he said: “From 2000 until 2006, I'd only been four years out of drama school."I hadn't ticked all of the boxes that I wanted to tick.“There were a couple of places where I wanted to work in London."I wanted to fulfil those things.So for
