ITV Emmerdale star breaks silence on unannounced return as twist led to tears on set

Emmerdale's Holly Barton histrion Sophie Powles has shared each connected her daze instrumentality to the ITV soap 8 years aft she was killed off, with tears from the formed implicit the plot

Former Emmerdale prima Sophie Powles, who plays Holly Barton connected the ITV soap, has revealed each connected her daze return.

Eight years connected from her character's tragic death, the histrion reprised the relation for a peculiar occurrence focusing connected Moira Dingle amid her encephalon tumour diagnosis. Moira was reunited with her tragic girl arsenic she underwent encephalon surgery.

The twist near viewers successful tears, arsenic parent and girl embraced and spoke for the archetypal clip since Holly died. Holly apologised for "making her mum sad" and for her tragic and accidental death.

Moira told her girl however overmuch she missed her pursuing her decease successful 2016, with affectional scenes seeing her find Holly dormant successful her room. Holly encouraged her parent to spell with her having missed her truthful much, but Moira insisted she needed to enactment for her young boys.

Holly told her mum she was doing good now, earlier she said goodbye erstwhile much arsenic Moira regained consciousness. Now, histrion Sophie has spoken astir the twist, and however determination were tears betwixt her and co-star Natalie J Robb arsenic they work done their moving scenes.

She said astir being backmost connected the amusement aft 8 years: "I was truly blessed to travel back. Being a portion of Emmerdale was conscionable the champion experience. Genuinely made friends for beingness successful the formed and crew, learnt truthful overmuch and person the champion memories.

"So truly grateful to travel backmost and enactment with friends again connected a amusement I emotion truthful much." She past confessed the scenes of her comeback led to tears for the cast, saying: "It’s a truly almighty occurrence and Nats and I some cried erstwhile we work the scenes.

"They are truly beautifully written." On missing the soap, she went on: "I truly bash miss the amusement and moving with friends. As an actress, changeless enactment is truly rare. I miss conscionable knowing I would beryllium doing what I emotion each week."

On however she recovered getting backmost into the relation aft truthful long, she spilled: "It was truthful beauteous to travel backmost for the day. To beryllium honorable it felt similar I had ne'er left. It was conscionable a large time doing what I emotion with radical I love. "

On beingness aft Emmerdale, she revealed: "Since leaving the amusement I person been busy. I've travelled with my fellow Mark and friends. Had astonishing opportunities assisting and producing for him connected assorted movie projects.

"I’ve done a batch of theatre, dependable implicit enactment and written poems and I merchantability prints with my superb person Emily astatine The blessed newspaper. The main happening is becoming a mum to 2 unthinkable small girls. It’s without a uncertainty the astir life-changing and the champion happening that has ever happened to me."

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