Emmerdale’s Lucy Pargeter, who plays Chas Dingle on the soap, has said she’s surprised that she’s been on the show for over two decades.
The actor, who’s appeared on the soap for almost 23 years, made her first appearance on Emmerdale in October 2002, when she arrived in the village dressed as a nun for the stag night of cousin Marlon.
Two decades later, she’s spoken of the “privilege” of playing the character for so long and how she feels “blessed” for her long run on the soap.
She said: “I love my job and I’m lucky to have my job and every day, I go into work, I know I’m lucky to still be making this my job, 23 years later after I first signed up to be a stripping nun, you know what I mean?,” she told Kelvin and Liz Fletcher on the Off Script… Coronation Street & Emmerdale podcast.
“I didn’t expect to still be here and for my kids to have got a beautiful place to live, be surrounded by my mates, be challenged every single day, even you know… there is not a day that I go in [and] all I say is, ‘Would you like a pint?’.”
She added: “It’s a privilege. I’m so blessed to have that job and I will never ever take it for granted because it can be taken away from you at any point.”
On the soap, the villagers are currently trying to figure out what caused Chas’s collapse in the pub.
Chas was left visibly unhappy after Aaron Dingle and John Sugden got engaged and upstaged her and partner Liam Cavanagh’s surprise engagement party.
Moments later Chas fell to the ground and hit her head. Later, doctors discovered excessive amounts of codeine in her system, leading to suspicions her medication had been tampered with.
Some of the villagers become suspicious of Ella Forster after she seemed to be struggling with her ex-partner Liam moving on.
Ella was later arrested as suspension mounts, but it’s yet to be seen whether there’s any evidence to link her to the crime.
𝐏𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰 “𝑭𝒂𝒏𝒑𝒂𝒈𝒆 & 𝑾𝒆𝒃𝒔𝒊𝒕𝒆: 𝒇𝙞𝒍𝙢𝒔𝙥𝒐𝙞𝒍𝙚𝒓𝙨.𝙞𝒏𝙛𝒐” 𝐭𝐨 𝐮𝐩𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐞𝐱𝐜𝐥𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧. 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐬𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐮𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐧-𝐝𝐞𝐩𝐭𝐡 𝐜𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐢𝐞𝐬.
