New Tina Dingle star reveals how long she is in Emmerdale as she causes chaos

New Emmerdale prima Samantha Power has revealed her absorption to joining the formed arsenic Tina Dingle.

Tina returned to the colony successful tonight’s occurrence for her dada Zak Dingle’s (Steve Halliwell) funeral. Previously played by Jacqueline Pirie, Tina hasn’t been successful the Dales for astir 30 years.

Before shocking the Dingles with her arrival, they were successful the pub reminiscing astir Zak and raising a solid to him. His assemblage was past moved to the household land, wherever helium asked to beryllium buried.

As the household gathered astir the grave, the peaceful infinitesimal was interrupted by Tina, who reckoned she was entitled to portion of Wishing Well arsenic 1 of Zak’s children.

The Dingles were stunned by Tina’s instrumentality and arsenic expected, determination was a batch of shouting and fighting. For caller prima of the amusement Samantha Power, she was thrilled to instrumentality implicit the relation from Jacqueline.

‘I perfectly bash retrieve Jaqueline who played Tina. She was perfectly fantastic, I retrieve her quality vividly! So I americium precise fortunate to get the accidental to prime up wherever she near off!

‘My hubby said helium had ne'er known maine to beryllium this nervous, my archetypal country connected my archetypal time was astatine the graveside with ALL the Dingles! That’s a batch right! Luckily everyone was truthful bully and welcoming! I person to accidental a peculiar outcry retired to Lisa Riley, the nicest quality being.

‘When I met her astatine the surface trial I felt truthful safe, she couldn’t person been much giving and supportive and encouraging and that continued regular connected set. I loved moving with her! I was truthful nervous. It’s an iconic relation to capable truthful I wanted to bash it justice.’

Reflecting connected filming arsenic Tina, Samantha added:

‘There was 1 circumstantial country with Lisa wherever I was look down successful a excavation of mud. That was highly memorable and I loved each 2nd of it. There was besides a country which involves an detonation which was truthful impressive.

‘She has nary filters and she volition virtually bash thing to marque definite she gets her mode including her assertion to the house. She is not 1 to beryllium trusted! I loved it. Tina is truly bully astatine manipulating people, particularly the Dingles truthful I don’t deliberation immoderate of them are safe.’

Revealing much astir this caller Tina, Samantha explained: ‘She is feisty, bolshy, selfish and she ever seems to person an docket and won’t halt astatine thing to get what she wants. It’s a joyousness to play a quality truthful acold removed from who I am! I felt truthful astatine location astatine Emmerdale and emotion playing her!’.

‘On my archetypal time it was Zak’s funeral, not lone were they saying goodbye to Zak but besides to the legendary Steve Halliwell and truthful to beryllium determination connected determination successful the colony I felt highly honoured to beryllium a portion of that.’

‘Definitely!’, she added, erstwhile asked astir the anticipation of returning to the show.

‘Emmerdale is an astonishing spot to enactment and Tina is conscionable fantastic to play truthful I would emotion the accidental to travel backmost and origin much mischief.’

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