Emmerdale newcomer Twinnie-Lee Moore's sweet reaction to meeting the Dingles

Country euphony vocalist Twinnie connected joining the ITV soap, gathering her idols and commuting betwixt Nashville and Yorkshire

She has met A-listers Dolly Parton and Beyonce but caller Emmerdale histrion Twinnie-Lee Moore says it was the Dingle household that had her starstruck.

The 37-year-old joined the ITV soap this period arsenic feisty boxing promoter Jade. And for Yorkshire lass Twinnie, gathering Cain and his relatives was a imagination travel true. She says: “It’s an iconic show. I get to enactment with the feline who plays Cain, Jeff Hordley. It is huffy to spot them successful existent life. I’m similar ‘I’ve been watching you since I was a kid’. I’ve ever wanted to beryllium successful the show, being from Yorkshire, it’s specified a chill thing.”

Soap fans volition recognise Twinnie from Hollyoaks, wherever she played Porsche McQueen for a twelvemonth from 2014. But she is besides a instrumentalist and present lives successful Nashville, Tennessee – location to state euphony fable Dolly, 78. She is commuting from the US to movie her scenes and says: “I’m jet-lagged each the time. But erstwhile I got the job, I was like, ‘This is perfect’. It’s 40 minutes distant from my mum, truthful I get to beryllium location for a bit. It’s bully that my accent hasn’t changed.”

And her quality Jade is already ruffling feathers successful the Dales with her no-nonsense cognition and ruthlessness. The histrion says: “She’s been a batch of amusive to play. I’ve ne'er played a baddie.”

Twinnie’s caller album, Something We Used To Say, which was retired connected November 8, came retired of heartbreak aft a divided and uprooting to the US. But portion there, she has encountered Beyonce and state prima Chris Stapleton, arsenic good arsenic Dolly.

Twinnie says: “I lone spent, like, 5 minutes with [Dolly], but she’s a engaged pistillate and she inactive gave maine the clip of day. She asked maine if I was a vocalist and I was like, ‘Yeah’. She said ‘Oh, I’ll person to perceive to your stuff.’ I thought ‘I’m gonna die!’.”

The American euphony assemblage has truly taken her nether its wing, Twinnie says, adding: “It’s been precise soul-giving and precise affirming to be, like, ‘Yeah, I americium meant to beryllium here, my euphony is bully enough’. You tin bash euphony and you tin bash acting, and you don’t person to beryllium conscionable 1 thing. We’ve seen that much than ever with Sabrina Carpenter and Olivia Rodrigo.”

Her azygous Hypothetically is retired present - and Twinnie was near successful tears erstwhile she heard it played retired connected US vigor past week. “It’s really insane. I cried. So galore radical that were similar 'Oh, I heard you connected the highway'. That makes similar each the hard work, the blood, sweat and tears worthy it.”

In a caller relationship, but not “official”, Twinnie says she’s moving connected happier music. “I’m connected the different broadside of my Sad Girl era," she said. "We’re moving connected caller worldly for adjacent twelvemonth called Happy Hour and I’m truly trying to embody that feeling.”

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