90s Coronation Street and Emmerdale icon looks unrecognisable after quitting UK for new career

Jacqueline Pirie ventured down an breathtaking caller vocation way erstwhile she near the satellite soapland.

The prima played the relation of Tina Dingle successful Emmerdale from 1994-1996. Daughter of Zak and Nellie Dingle, Tina departed the Dales aft refusing to judge Frank Tate’s connection and quitting her job.

Elsewhere, Jacqueline, who is present 48, besides had a relation successful ITV’s Coronation Street.

She portrayed Linda Baldwin, the 4th woman of Adam’s (Sam Robertson) dad Mike.

In 2001, Linda drove retired of Weatherfield successful Mike’s car, which was aboriginal pulled from a river. It near the residents fearing she had died but a twelvemonth later, they discovered Linda was surviving successful Dublin.

It’s been a quite a fewer years since we past saw the soap prima connected our screens and unsurprisingly, Jacqueline has changed a large woody arsenic she developed a sanction for herself arsenic an author.

Now going by the sanction Jacqueline Chadwick, the erstwhile histrion lives successful Victoria Canada, and has written aggregate transgression novels.

The books centre astir a quality called Ali Dalglish, an ex-forensic scientist turned housewife, who finds herself progressive successful execution cases. The titles see In the Still, Briefly Maiden and Silent Sisters.

Jacqueline’s erstwhile co-star Steve Halliwell, who played Tina’s dada Zak, died successful December past year.

The amusement volition soon wage tribute to Steve and his character, with affectional ceremonial occurrence acceptable to air.

‘The Dingles person been astatine the bosom of our amusement for 30 years present and volition proceed to beryllium so,’ producer Sophie Roper told Metro.co.uk.

‘We mislaid Steve recently, the precise bittersweet passing of Steve, truthful we’re going to beryllium marking the passing of the iconic Zak Dingle successful the coming months with a Dingle funeral.

‘It’s precise hard for a batch of radical who enactment connected the amusement and for galore of our viewers who person loved Zak for many, galore years, but there’ll beryllium a fitting tribute to specified an iconic quality coming up.’

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