Emmerdale stars' real life tears over Zak Dingle funeral scenes and off-screen promise to Steve Halliwell

Emmerdale's Mandy Dingle-Kirk histrion Lisa Riley has spoken astir her heartbreak filming memorial scenes for Steve Halliwell's quality Zak Dingle and however the Dingle formed celebrated him erstwhile the cameras stopped rolling

Lisa Riley has spoken of her "anguish" filming person and on-screen uncle Steve Halliwell's ceremonial scenes connected Emmerdale.

The Mandy Dingle-Kirk histrion - who starred alongside the Zak Dingle histrion for decades - confirmed that the heartbreaking scenes would aerial aboriginal this month. She besides revealed that the Dingle formed had promised to notation to Halliwell arsenic though he's inactive with them connected acceptable to support his representation alive.

Speaking to the Mirror astatine the Inside Soap Awards aft winning Best Family, she said: "We ne'er instrumentality it for granted and we admit it adjacent much than ever due to the fact that we’re doing Steve [Halliwell’s] memorial episode. We truly privation to enactment it connected the mantelpiece but it’s excessively posh for the house. But it means the astir this year, definitely."

Opening up astir filming the scenes, Lisa said: "There’s moments you’ll spot erstwhile it’s transmitted wherever you tin spot sometimes it’s us, it’s our ain anguish wherever we’re missing him truthful much."

She continued: "We promised from present on, whether we’re wrong of the location oregon retired connected the set, we privation to speech astir him similar helium was ever there, similar he’s inactive determination due to the fact that of his energy. He taught america truthful overmuch erstwhile we were young that we’ve taken and we tin walk onto the adjacent procreation of Dingles."

Paddy Kirk histrion Domic Brunt hailed filming arsenic a "remembrance of Steve" and said it was a "celebration of his life". "The existent ceremonial was precise emotional," helium said. "The filming of the ceremonial and the burial was really much of a remembrance of Steve - we were swapping stories and it was precise upbeat really due to the fact that we knew he’d gone. He’ll beryllium missed everlastingly but it wasn’t sad. It was a existent solemnisation of his life."

After filming, the Dingle formed enjoyed a repast to travel unneurotic aft the scenes and relive their memories with Steve. "We ever person Dingle meals - we bash that arsenic a Dingle family," Lisa said. "It’s not to ostracize anyone but we are similar a surface household and we bash emotion each other’s institution truthful each erstwhile successful a portion we person a Dingle meal."

Steve died with his loved ones by his broadside successful December 2023 astatine the property of 77. He archetypal appeared successful the ITV soap successful October 1994 arsenic the Dingle patriarch and became the show's longest-serving formed subordinate aft a 29-year stint. He past appeared successful the soap successful June 2023 for a peculiar week of episodes centred astir his troublesome family.

The actor's household held a backstage ceremonial for him successful January this year, with his on-screen lad James Hooton (Sam Dingle) and different formed members successful attendance. Sharing a photograph of them some unneurotic the time afterward, James wrote connected societal media: "So yesterday we said goodbye to this iconic Emmerdale legend. Today marks the 29th day of my archetypal time connected Emmerdale and it was this man, Steve Halliwell that I worked with connected that day, 10th Jan 1995. Miss you Steve, remainder successful peace….. Oh and Ritharsoil. (Dingle, successful joke)."

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