Emmerdale icons Lucy Pargeter and Sammy Winward's secret past as 'gruesome twosome'

Lucy Pargeter will celebrate two decades as a much-loved member of the Emmerdale cast this year.

Now a busy mum-of-three, Lucy was just 24 when she joined the ITV soap and soon became firm friends with her female co-stars.

And her life today could not be more different from when she first played Chas Dingle.