Samantha Giles has graced our screens for more than 20 years as Bernice Blackstock on ITV soap Emmerdale but it almost didn’t work out at all
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Samantha Giles has graced our screens for more than 20 years as Bernice Blackstock on ITV soap Emmerdale but it almost didn’t work out at all