Spellbound

Inside Emmerdale star Samantha Giles’ off-screen life – from practising witchcraft to saving battered schoolboy

ACTRESS Samantha Giles brings real-life experience to her current storyline.

Emmerdale actress Samantha Giles originally joined the soap in 1998, and her most recent storyline has her pulling on her own experiences.

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Emmerdale star Samantha Giles' off-screen life is eventful - from practising witchcraft to saving a battered schoolboyCredit: Rex Features

Bernice Blackstock, played by Samantha, has managed to wind up caught in-between Kat Tate and Will Taylor as she lusts after the village bad boy.

Will and Bernice have agreed that they will stay away from each other, but will the truth come to light as their steaming storyline unfolds?

Being a staple of the Yorkshire farm for many years, the actress turned 50 earlier this year and has had an illustrious career.

Playing Bernice Blackstock since the mid-nineties, her storylines have seen her come and go, with her most recently returning to the soap this year after leaving her ex Liam Cavanagh at the altar in late 2019.

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From her comedy moments to her failed romantic relationships fans love Bernice.

Samantha's personal life is just as colourful as the situations her on-screen counterpart gets into.

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Bernice and Andy Sugden getting close on setCredit: Rex

Identifying as a white witch, Samantha has addressed how she and other white witches use magic and the supernatural for the greater good.

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Even to the point where the actress once cast a love spell while on set which led to her securing herself a husband, Sean Pritchard, a production Manager.

Samantha performed a ritual where she wrote down the personality traits she was seeking in her ideal man and used candles and crystals to complete the spell.

Samantha cast a spell while working on EmmerdaleCredit: ITV

Appearing on Lorraine's ITV show, Samantha said: "I've always been a Wiccan, a white witch, so I cast a love spell before I met Sean to meet the right person."

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She continued: "I use candles and crystals in the magic I do. I wrote down exactly what I was after. Then I met Sean and he was exactly what I had written. It's as if he appeared by magic!"

Combining her Wiccan ways with her creative skills, Samantha wrote a book titled Rosemary and the Witches of Pendle Hill last year.

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In a true soap opera storyline, fellow Emmerdale actress Claire King has claimed Samantha once had an affair with her then-husband Peter Amory, with the couple separating in 2004.

The plot didn't end there as Samantha's first husband, Nick Moore, had allegedly written to Claire to inform her of their relationship.

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