Emmerdale actress rushed to hospital
<p>Samantha Giles, the star of long-running British soap opera Emmerdale, was rushed to hospital after falling sick over the weekend.</p>
<p>"Huge thank you to all the wonderfully caring staff at @LiverpoolWomens for looking after me today," the 50-year-old actress shared on Twitter "#NHS I'm fine and I'll be home soon."</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">Huge thank you to all the wonderfully caring staff at <a href="https://twitter.com/LiverpoolWomens?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@LiverpoolWomens</a> for looking after me today. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/NHS?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#NHS</a> 💜 I’m fine and I’ll be home soon.</p>
<p>— Samantha Giles (@sammeegiles) <a href="https://twitter.com/sammeegiles/status/1505167317394722817?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 19, 2022</a></p></blockquote>
<p>Details of her illness have not yet been revealed, though fans were quick to send well wishes to the actress.</p>
<p>"Thank goodness for the #NHS Sending lots of love xxxxxx," one fan wrote.</p>
<p>"Bless you Sam, I hope you're feeling comfortable and better soon xx," another said.</p>
<p>Giles has played Bernice on Emmerdale since 1998, though her appearances in the soap are on and off. After a seven-year regular stint on the show, in 2019, she left Emmerdale to focus on other creative projects.</p>
<p>On the screen, Bernice has been through many trials and tribulations through the years, but off-screen, Giles' personal life is just as interesting.</p>
<p>Giles identifies as Wiccan, belonging to a modern pagan religion and says she met her partner Sean Pritchard after casting a spell.</p>
<p>"I met him three months after the spell," Giles said.</p>
<p>"It's about things being aligned. Sometimes people say to me, 'I put this thought out there and it didn't work!' But sometimes things aren't in the right place so you have to let them go until it's time.</p>
<p>"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."</p>
<p><em>Image: Getty</em></p>
