DALES EXTRA

Lucy Pargeter, who plays Chas, admits she’s exhausted after being centre stage in a series of high-profile 50th-anniversary storylines.

‘My head is pretty mashed, to be quite honest,’ the 45-year-old star tells us. ‘Usually, your mother’s terminal cancer, an affair, the death of your lover, your affair being exposed, your son coming back and then leaving again is enough storyline to happen over a year – but this has happened over the past few months.

‘I am absolutely frazzled, and it’s not like there’s been a break. It’s been an absolute treadmill.’