Samantha Giles: Emmerdale’s Bernice hints at backstage ‘agendas’ on soap after Dales exit

The Masked Singer draws to a close, fans of the show are frantically trying to figure out who could be behind Mushroom’s mask.So far viewers have waved goodbye to the likes of Heather Small, Gloria Hunniford, Will Young, Pat Cash, Tom Chaplin, Michael Owen, Jaime Winstone, Michelle Williams and Aled Jones.One of the final characters left is the ever elusive Mushroom. This Masked Singer has baffled judges and audiences alike since their first appearance when they sang It’s Oh So Quiet by Icelandic popstar Björk.

Livingston exited the Scottish Cup in agonising fashion as they went down on penalties following a spirited performance away to Hearts following a 0-0 draw.

A primary school in Lanarkshire is celebrating gaining a new reading accreditation.

Stevie Farrell felt his side could’ve been 6-1 up at half-time, as the Sons swept aside Clyde to move up to seventh in the League One table.

Little Mix songstress Perrie Edwards has teased that she is working on new solo music as she posed up a storm in the recording studio.The 28 year old, who sparked music rumours in January as she was filmed by fellow singer and songwriter Kamille excitedly arriving at a music studio with musician Fred Again, appeared to be in her element as she shared a collection of snaps to her 14.2million Instagram followers. Perrie, who became a mum to five month old baby Axel in 2021 with partner Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, dressed head-to-toe in her £110 disora neutral tracksuit as she donned headphones in a recording booth.

“There’s nothing wishy-washing about working with Phyllis Nagy,” Elizabeth Banks tells Deadline of working with the Call Jane director. “She’s very gentle with her direction but she’s also firm with what she expects or wants out of something, which I really appreciate.”

Loose Women star Stacey Solomon was feeling embarrassed after a simple search for a garden swing pulled up all sorts of naughty results online.The former X Factor finalist was in search of a “grown up swing”, but didn’t realise that those were typically used for a different purpose. Stacey, 32, took to Instagram yesterday, where she appeared mortified in front of her five million followers. On her story, she discussed how she wanted an adult version of the swing that she had bought for her son Rex.However, she soon admitted that she had regretted taking a look online after seeing the suggested items that came back. Unfortunately, Stacey’s simple Google search threw up some rather X-rated results.The star was only after something extra for her garden, hoping to have some fun herself thanks to how much the children already had to keep them busy outside. However, when Stacey typed “adult swing” into the search engine, she was greeted with an array of adventurous sex toys.She told fans: “I really wish I hadn't Googled that. I never realised that was a thing.”“Sometimes I worry I must be the most boring person ever,” she admitted. “But then I couldn't think of anything worse than swinging about all over the place.”Speaking to fans about Rex's swing, Stacey continued: “It's from a little business called The Play Time Company.“I wish it came in adult size too,” she added wistfully.  On October 4 last year, Stacey welcomed a baby girl into the world with her fiancé Joe Swash, 40.The pair named their daughter Rose Opal Esmè Solomon-Swash.Stacey is planning to tie the knot with actor and former I'm A Celebrity...

Express.co.uk about how they decided who they were going to catfish.He said: "So first and foremost we had a few suggestions of people we wanted to be before will.i.am and we ended up being him on the show."We wanted to be Big Nastie but we later found out that somebody else had already chosen them."Then we asked to be Craig David and there was a reason why we couldn’t be him."I think they suggested Lewis Hamilton, Anthony Joshua and will.i.am."Rickie continued: "So, we were like there is no way Lewis Hamilton would even do the Circle, that is completely unbelievable."Anthony Joshua was in a fight camp for a big fight that he had coming up."However, will.i.am does do The Voice Kids, and The Voice, so we thought he was more believable than the other lot."But when we were in there no one believed it was us but it was really fun to do."Rickie and Melvin know will.i.am so they rang him for tips on how to be him, however they were still not successful on the show.The presenter said: "Before we went into the show we actually called will.i.am up and had a chat."He said, ‘Anything that you say or anything that you do just make it extra extra big’."So if they said they go to the gym you say you went to the gym on Mars."Make everything intergalactic and make it completely wacky and you should get away with it and that’s what we did."Rickie is currently partnered with Birds Eye who are doing their part for Vegans.Speaking to Express.co.uk, Rickie said this was what appealed to him to work with Birds Eye.The presenter said: "When I heard about the Bird’s Eye campaign, the Green Cuisine range, I thought this is the perfect introduction to that kind of world and into that journey for me personally."So for normal people like me, you

Manchester United fans are worried Cristiano Ronaldo's days as a world class finisher could be over after he missed an open goal against Southampton on Saturday.The 37-year-old fluffed his lines completely after rounding Fraser Forster in the box with the goal at his mercy before prodding the ball limply towards the net, only to see it easily cleared by Saints defender Romain Perraud.The match finished 1-1 after Jadon Sancho gave United the lead in the first-half before Southampton hit back through Che Adams immediately after the restart.Ronaldo now hasn't scored for six consecutive matches - his longest drought since 2009 - and it's beginning to get to the United faithful, who appear to be losing faith in him."Ronaldo: finished," tweeted one fan after the game."Maguire needs to be binned and maybe Ronaldo too.

BBC series are in their 60s now. After claiming it was "all about sex," he continued telling The Daily Star: "You move on.

“She’s still alive obviously but you know what I mean. It’s a horrible feeling, I was struggling and Covid just started.“We were still training but there was nothing but training to do.Tom really did give me advice all the time."I could forget about it at training.”Matty explained that the two got on so well but they became “boring people” at one point as they didn’t want to jeopardise their careers.He said that while preparing for events, the two just “did nothing” on some weekends and had the energy as a result to put their hearts and souls into training.Matty said: “Me and Tom just became boring people because we didn’t go out to jeopardise it.“On the weekends I just did nothing.

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A Manchester actress has described how she was hospitalised after she started to believe she had caused the Covid-19 pandemic during a mental health episode.

Emmerdale actress Samantha Giles has taken to Twitter, fuming over the lack of work opportunities amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Emmerdale has had a number of families bringing the drama over the years, though the White clan made a serious impact while they were on the soap.

Emmerdale actress Samantha Giles has hinted that her character Bernice Blackstock could be killed off-screen following her "disappointing" exit last year.

Inside Soap Emmerdale actress turned author Samantha Giles who plays Bernice Blackstock revealed she was disappointed with her character’s exit.‘If she had been killed, perhaps I’d have got a better exit story, as it was a little disappointing,’ the actress-turned-author said.‘I had quite a lot of people on Twitter saying that they felt a bit cheated by the way Bernice left, but it’s done now. You can’t please everyone!’ she added.The doctor struggled at first after she left but finally entered a turbulent relationship with Leyla Harding (Roxy Shahidi).

Samantha Giles, who played the role of Bernice Blackstock on and off since 1998, has admitted to not missing certain aspects of the soap star life that she describes as "horrendous".The TV star revealed she is ready to move on from the soap after first joining the Emmerdale cast 21 years ago.The actress admits she does not miss getting up in the early hours to get to Leeds, which were especially bad in her last few weeks.When asked about aspects of the job she takes joy in leaving behind her, Samantha told OK! Magazine: “Getting up at 5am! And the M62 in the snow.”The star continued to go into detail about some of the worst journeys she had on her commute.She added: “In my last few weeks I had the most horrendous journeys from Liverpool to

EMMERDALE'S Samantha Giles has revealed how she wanted Bernice Blackstock to "leave in a body bag" after she quit the show for the second time. The actress' character marched out of the Dales last November and jetted off to Australia after cancelling her wedding and breaking fiance Liam Cavanagh's heart in the process.

Samantha Giles has confessed she had a part to play in pal Sharon Marshall falling pregnant with her first and only child.The actress, who plays Bernice Blackstock on the popular soap opera Emmerdale, spoke exclusively to OK! about her keen abilities to cast spells and charms as a self-proclaimed witch.The 48 year old explained that Sharon came to her for help during her seventh round of IVF after six unsuccessful rounds left her heartbroken. She explained: "It was fantastic because she came to me for help after her seventh round of IVF." Samantha instructed Sharon get a Menalite crystal, which is a mineral that's commonly known to help women get in touch with their 'feminine essence' and is known as the fertility rock.

She played ditzy man-eating beautician Bernice Blackstock for almost two decades in Emmerdale, before leaving the soap late last year. Now Samantha Giles opens up to OK! about going in search of pastures new.