Liverpool's Sunetra Sarker will be testing her wits in a celebrity edition of The Chase tonight.
She will be joined Matty Lee, David Arnold and Basil Brush as host Bradley Walsh welcomes them to the ITV quiz show. The team will pit their wits against one of the ruthless Chasers in the hope of winning a potential prize pot worth thousands of pounds to be donated to a charity of their choice.
Sunetra Sarker is instantly recognisable from playing Zoe Hanna in Casualty on BBC One (or subsequently, 2014’s Strictly Come Dancing), but the actor has has had an extensive career elsewhere. She featured in the Liverpool based soap, Brookside, from 1988 to 1990 as Nisha Batra and on BBC’s The Chase before her starring role as Dr Zoe Hanna in Casualty.
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But the 48-year-old has also featured in a number of other medical dramas and soaps including playing Donna Sykes in Doctors, Priti Chowdry in Emmerdale and Nanda Veer in Holby City. Off screen, Sunetra has had two marriages - the first of which ended in divorce.
She married Nick Corfield in 2003, and the pair had one child, Noah, together a few years afterwards. Now, she is happily married to Scott Carey.
The couple founded a firm together which sells a product which helps to kill bacteria. But, while happily married and working together to run a company their marriage is somewhat unconventional as they don't actually live together.
Sunetra and Scott are long-distance, and she has said publicly she has ‘no plans’ for the two to move in together. She said: “When I first met Scott, it was like discovering a new colour for the first time. I loved him so much.
“Then the thought of us not living together was so weird, but because we both had sets of kids that were in schools and happily sorted, and seeing their other parents – we didn’t want to uproot our children and make them have to do something they didn’t want to just because we had fallen in love.
“So, we decided to keep our kids in their schools and homes and we would be the ones that would make the sacrifice. We would see each other for one week and then we wouldn’t see each other for another week.
“I don’t know why, but it works. I know it might seem strange to other people, but it just works.” Though they do it for their children, Sunetra said living away from her husband has “done wonders” for their relationship.
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