Lucy Pargeter has played Chas Dingle in Emmerdale for more than two decades.
She is instantly recognisable for her Dales character, and has been at the centre of many hard-hitting storylines over the years. Long-term fans of the soap will remember she initially entered the fictional Yorkshire village when she was hired as a stripper for her own cousin's stag do.
She has also had her fair share of romance, and more recently a relationship that has not ended well. She cheated on Paddy Kirk with Al Chapman, who was later shot dead by her own nephew.
