Emmerdale legend exits as she’s unexpectedly axed after 13 years: ‘It wasn’t my choice’

It’s being reported that Emmerdale’s Daisy Campbell is acceptable to permission the ITV soap aft 13 years.

The young histrion has played Amelia Spencer since 2011. Currently, Amelia is successful a narration with an abusive antheral called Tom King (James Chase), who is besides the ex-husband of Belle Dingle (Eden Taylor-Draper).

Daisy, who is 21, has spoken astir her departure from the ITV soap, admitting the thought of leaving felt ‘daunting’, fixed she has grown up connected the show.

‘It wasn’t my prime to permission Emmerdale and it was a daze astatine first’, she explained to the Mirror.

‘Being successful Emmerdale is each I person ever known. I’ve spent the full of my puerility increasing up successful the soap and it felt daunting.’

‘Once they explained, I wholly got it’, she said.

‘Amelia isn’t portion of the Dingles, her dada has left, Samson has gone present and she doesn’t person immoderate family. There is obscurity to instrumentality Amelia and I recognize that. I consciousness incredibly fortunate to person been successful the soap for 13 years and to person been handed truthful galore opportunities astatine specified a young age.’

Daisy was 8 years aged erstwhile she joined the show. In May of this year, she was told by Emmerdale bosses that Amelia’s last scenes successful the colony would aerial conscionable earlier Christmas.

The prima lone told adjacent friends Rosie Bentham, Jack Downham and Katie Hill initially.

‘They were upset for maine but truthful supportive. I didn’t archer the remainder of the formed my quality initially arsenic I wanted the clip to process everything. I needed clip to grieve the portion of Amelia’, Daisy said.

‘I had disquieted truthful overmuch astir however I was going to archer radical I was going and present I cognize I shouldn’t have! They were each brilliant..’

The prima besides admitted she is gladsome Emmerdale decided the aboriginal of her character, alternatively than statement implicit whether oregon not she should quit.

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