Emmerdale actress Nicola Wheeler has opened up about having surgery right before filming the brutal attack scene which left her character Nicola King traumatised.
The 48-year-old revealed on This Morning that production bosses had to bring in a stunt double to film parts of the scene as she had just undergone hip replacement surgery. During the episode, Nicola was mugged, beaten and left bloodied on the ground before losing consciousness.
The star told ITV presenters Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby: "I took a couple of months off for a hip replacement and they told me about this story and they said: 'what we are going to do is we are going to bring you back and beat you up, is that ok?'"
