DALES BAD BOY LOST THE PLOT!

Star’s written out of major storyline

A MISBEHAVING star was written out Emmerdale midway through a major plot.

Lee Salisbury, a former director on the ITV soap, revealed: “There was a person in Emmerdale who wasn’t really behaving and they did write this person out halfway through a storyline.”

He told the Soap From The Box podcast: “I was there for that, but it was all dealt with very well and it proved to everyone else that you can’t get away with anything. In a soap, there is no one star, as the soap is the star. It’s not like a movie with Julia Roberts!” But Lee, inset, who was on the show from 2006 to

2015, did add that such occurrences were rare, as actors who behave badly are “sorted out”.

He said: “On all of the soaps, nothing is put up with.

“I was always so thankful that if anyone was misbehaving, they would get called in and it would be sorted out.

“That meant there wasn’t anything really bad that happened.”

He also explained that

“nightmares” do occur on soaps, including actors not showing up to set during a big storyline.

Lee said: “It’s like a normal workplace – of things happen. Soaps have to run like clockwork, so if someone’s ill or has had an accident, it can cause massive problems.” Weather can also pose filming challenges, the director revealed. He said: “One of the tricks most soaps do is film the outside scenes first, so you can then replicate that character’s hair inside, if it’s been raining. “Sid Owen filmed an outside scene for Eastenders walking into one of the buildings. Then he went on holiday, came back and walked into the door 10 shades darker!”