AT HOME IN LIVERPOOL WITH HER DAUGHTERS, ‘EMMERDALE’ STAR SAMANTHA GILES
Aug 10, 2020
3 minutes
INTERVIEW: SALLY MORGAN
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‘It took me nine months to complete so it was a bit like having another baby, really’
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She intrigued her legion of fans by causing a decade of mayhem as beautician Bernice Blackstock in ITV’s Emmerdale. But then actress Samantha Giles had a dream that inspired her to swap the maelstrom of TV melodrama for a tale of magic and mystery.
“It’s an actual dream come true,” says the actress, who left the TV series to focus on writing her first children’s book, Rosemary and the Witches of Pendle, published this month.
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