Emmerdale star Lisa Riley has bagged a new job away from the ITV soap. The actress is well known for her role as Mandy Dingle on and off since 1995.
She has been involved in a number of dramatic storylines including playing a mother figure to Vinny Dingle, after his father left them.
She has had to console Vinny after he recently lost his wife, Liv Dingle, in the storm that ravaged Emmerdale village as part of the soap's 50th birthday celebrations.