She’s one of Emmerdale’s longest-serving actors and this year celebrates her 20th anniversary, but that doesn’t stop Lucy Pargeter from worrying that every year on the show could be her last.
Lucy is currently involved in a dramatic storyline where her character Chas Dingle loses The Woolpack, the pub which has kept her at the heart of the soap’s action for the past decade.
And when Lucy heard it was being taken away from her, she felt like the rug had been pulled from under her feet.