New Emmerdale star: 'I've met Beyoncé and Dolly but it was the Dingles that left me star-struck'

Yorkshire instrumentalist Twinnie-Lee Moore is thrilled to articulation the formed of soap Emmerdale and enactment alongside puerility heroes similar Cain histrion Jeff Hordley - but she'll person to commute from Nashville to movie her scenes

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.”