The Sunday Post (Newcastle)

I LOVE EMMERDALE...AND STRICTLY

- By Bill Gibb

Isabel has been a soap star for 10 years, but could she dance?

“Adam’s lost his sister and his biological father so things really aren’t too good for him,” Isabel explains.

“He ends up having a fight with Ross and Victoria gets caught in the crossfire and has to go to hospital.

“They run through basic questions including whether there might be any chance she’s pregnant.

“She has to admit to Adam that she hasn’t told him, but there is a chance she might be.

“They talk about it and he says they’ll face it however it turns out.

“But while she says to Finn she’d really like to have the baby if she does turn out to be pregnant, she’s feeling that Adam’s not too enthusiast­ic.”

It’s the latest phase in the relationsh­ip between the two and will shape their feelings in the coming weeks and months.

While she admits she does watch other dramas and would like to test her acting mettle elsewhere at some stage, Isabel insists she’s more than happy where she is just now.

But the one thing that’s had to take a back seat is her dancing which she started when she was just four.

Although intensive training is out, she still travels from Leeds back to Manchester every Tuesday night for two hours of rehearsals with her old pals.

And the group still put on annual shows.

As a Strictly Come Dancing superfan, she says she’d jump at the chance to appear on the Saturday night sensation.

“I’ve been watching this year and saying: ‘Get me on that dance floor’,” she adds.

“Soap stars have done well on the show but I wouldn’t want them saying that was until Isabel came along and ruined it!”

 ??  ?? ▼ Growing up on a soap set: Isabel Hodgins has completed 10 years on Emmerdale, having joined the cast when she was 12.
▼ Growing up on a soap set: Isabel Hodgins has completed 10 years on Emmerdale, having joined the cast when she was 12.
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