Emmerdale favourite Charley Webb took to Instagram to share her pet-related drama with fans after the family got a pet hamster. Charley , who is best known for playing Debbie Dingle in the ITV soap, spoke of her misery after being kept awake all night by their new furry friend.
The mum-of-three from Bury posted a picture of herself looking at the end of her tether as she wrote: “This is not a joke. The hamster has kept me awake all night. WHAT THE HELL?"
She explained to her 562,000 followers that what she had thought was an alarm was actually the tiny animal's squeaking wheel. “I thought I could hear some sort of high pitch alarm, got up. It was the bloody hamsters wheel squeaking," she wrote next to the picture of herself with a pained expression.
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And she revealed that their two-year-old son Ace had slept through the commotion. Ace slept through, hamster did not," she said. Charley then updated in despair to say followers had been messaging her to point out that hamsters are nocturnal and become active at night.
Sharing another snap of herself wearing comfy trousers she said she was on the verge of tears about her sleepless night, writing: “This will be me, all day. If one more person tells me they’re nocturnal, I think I’ll sob.”
According to the RSPCA website: "Hamsters are nocturnal, with large eyes and a retina dominated by rods - the part of the eye that can function in lower light."
Charley, 34, previously shared her annoyance after her Emmerdale co-star husband Matthew Wolfenden, 41, said 'yes' to the hamster after their six-year-old Bowie asked for the pet.
“I said no to the hamster, Matthew has said yes to the hamster," she told fans. “Not only has he said yes to the hamster, he then said it’ll need a friend, so we’ll have to get two hamsters.”
Charley then set up a poll on Instagram stories, asking “do we get them?." She added the options “just let him”, or “absolutely wouldn’t”, so fans could join the debate.
And she updated to say: "The face of a hungover mother that's just been roped into getting a hamster. I literally don't like anything that moves so this is a big deal."
