90s Emmerdale and Corrie sex symbol looks unrecognisable after quitting UK for new career

ONE of the stars of Emmerdale and Coronation Street looks astir unrecognisable aft quitting the UK for a caller career.

Jacqueline Pirie is champion known for her roles successful some of the long-running ITV soaps.

The 48-year-old histrion changeable to fame successful 1994 erstwhile she played the relation of Tina Dingle successful Emmerdale.

She arrived successful the colony arsenic the youngest girl of Zak (Steve Halliwell) and Nellie Dingle (Sandra Gough).

Her astir celebrated storyline came successful 1995 erstwhile she planned to wed Luke McAllister (Noah Huntley) aft she claimed that she was carrying with his child.

However events ended successful catastrophe erstwhile Luke discovered the pregnancy was fake and helium was killed successful a van crash.

At the 2nd ever National Television Awards successful 1996 she received a information successful the astir fashionable histrion class for her relation successful the serial drama.

After she departed the Yorkshire based play successful 1996, she swapped the dales for the cobbles 2 years later.

The histrion played the relation of Linda Sykes connected Coronation Street and was seen arsenic a enactment awesome successful Weatherfield.

Her quality was champion remembered for her steamy matter with Mike Baldwin (Johnny Briggs) earlier she near the soap successful 2001.

Now, the prima has escaped the UK and is astir unrecognisable successful her caller vocation aft she swapped speechmaking scripts successful favour of writing.

Based successful Vancouver, she present goes by the sanction of Jacqueline Chadwick and is known for her palmy crime novels.

She has written 3 thriller books titled; In The Still, Briefly Maiden, and Silent sisters.

All the books halfway astir her ex-pat quality Ali Dalglish, who is an ex-forensic scientist turned housewife who finds herself embroiled execution cases.

Jacqueline antecedently opened up connected the crushed she chose specified a drastic alteration of career.

Taking to X - formerly known arsenic Twitter - the erstwhile prima posted: "#APsychicToldMe to alteration jobs. Now I constitute novels."

Emmerdale and Coronation Street are some disposable to ticker connected ITV1 and ITVX.