It is great to be back on TV but there’s no better feeling than being a mama
e kids showing them that I am orking.” And they are never far from r thoughts, as the rest of the cast and ew on the set in Leeds know.
She says: “I have become that noying person who says, ‘Would you e to see another picture?’
“My friend laughed the other day and id, ‘That needs to stop’, but I can’t lp it.”
Being back in Emmerdale, Laura says, as “like riding a bike”. She adds: “After out a minute, you remember everying. I was worried my baby brain ould make it difficult walking and king at the same time, but it feels like ave never been away.”
Smiling, she says her partner, actor
Mark Jordon, 59, who she met eight years ago when he appeared in the ITV soap, is just as doting as she is.
He already had two grown-up children when they met, but she says fatherhood a third and fourth time for him has been just as great.
Laura says: “We look at everything through their eyes and love watching the Disney films with them. We are obsessed with them and walk around the house singing the songs.
“Mark is such a fantastic dad and he is looking after them both while I work. They all have a wild time together. I love watching them dance in the room together.
“Jesse and Ronnie’s big brother and sister are just as brilliant too. They’ve got a lovely connection with them both.”
Sadly, both Jesse and Ronnie have a rare condition, Usher syndrome, which can affect hearing, balance, and sight.
Laura and Mark both carried the abnormal gene, and they are now determined to do everything they can to help raise awareness and money to hopefully one day find a cure.
Laura says: “It was a such a huge shock when we discovered they both had Usher syndrome.
“They both wear hearing aids and it’s very much a waiting game in terms of when their eyesight will start to deteriorate.
“It can be in their late teens or it could be sooner, we just don’t know.
“We know we have a very short window to help them, but Mark and I both want to do everything we can to help find a cure.
“Our friends and family have been amazing and something like this definitely makes you not sweat the small stuff.”
Now she has returned to Emmerdale, does she envisage having more kids?
Laura says: “Oh no, two is plenty. It’s lovely to have a boy and a girl and I feel if I had another one, I wouldn’t have any time to give to that child. I am in awe of people who have more than two.”
Laura and Mark have been engaged since 2019, but there are still no wedding plans in place.
She says: “Things keep getting in the way. Mark’s daughter jokes it is the longest engagement in the world.
“You never know, but when the time is right we will. It will be very chilled though and not like the lavish plans we had once a time a go.”
Emmerdale bosses seem to have lavish plans for Kerry now she is back after taking time out to get over the betrayal of fiance Al Chapman, who was having an affair with Chas Dingle.
Laura says: “I feel like I have won the lottery playing Kerry.
“The things I get to wear and do as her are so much fun and she is still a bit of a car crash– but now she is back, she is trying to convince people she is a new and improved Kerry.
“Time will tell if she is telling a few porkies or not, but I am loving being back at work playing her again.”
Teasing what lies in store for Kerry, Laura says: “She is going to get a job in the Woolpack and I know she will rule the roost and treat it like her pub!
“She is proud of her figure and will definitely be wearing some very tight, brightly coloured clothes too. I also think she will be a bit naughty. She makes me laugh. I am looking forward to seeing where she goes next.”
Emmerdale runs every weekday on Virgin Media One at 7.30pm.