Who is Tina Dingle in Emmerdale? When did she leave, and who plays her amid return?

Emmerdale's Tina Dingle made her instrumentality connected the ITV soap this week aft decades away, but who plays her present and wherefore did she permission the amusement amid archetypal histrion Jacqueline Pirie not returning

Emmerdale's Tina Dingle returned to the ITV soap for the archetypal clip successful 28 years, but who is she and who plays her now?

There's been a recast, with archetypal histrion Jacqueline Pirie not returning to the relation aft her past onscreen quality successful 1996. As Zak Dingle's ceremonial got nether mode connected Thursday night, the Dingles gathered to accidental goodbye - arsenic shown connected Thursday greeting connected ITVX.

They were near reeling erstwhile a pistillate abruptly gatecrashed the event, and it was wide she was a relative. Soon fans learned the information arsenic Chas Dingle identified the enigma pistillate arsenic being Tina Dingle.

But who precisely is Tina, and however is she related to Zak and the remainder of the Dingle family? Who plays Tina now, and wherever has she been each this time? Here's wherever you volition recognise the caller histrion from including her erstwhile TV roles, arsenic good arsenic a recap connected who the quality is...

Who is Tina Dingle and erstwhile was she connected the show?

Tina Dingle is the girl of Zak, and sister to Sam and Cain Dingle. She had different siblings connected the amusement including Butch Dingle.

She was an archetypal subordinate of the family, debuting 30 years agone successful 1994 earlier she near 2 years aboriginal successful 1996. Tina featured successful a revenge storyline arsenic she targeted the slayer of her older member Ben Dingle.

The quality worked astatine Home Farm with Kim and Frank Tate astatine 1 constituent too, with her confiding successful Mandy Dingle astir harassment by Frank. Tina near for London and wasn't heard from after, with it teased she had mislaid interaction with her household including her begetter Zak.

Who plays Tina Dingle now?

Tina has been recast, with the relation primitively played by histrion and writer Jacqueline Pirie betwixt 1994 and 1996. Tina is present played by histrion Samantha Power, who volition beryllium a acquainted look to viewers nary doubt.

Samantha has antecedently starred connected shows including Ackley Bridge and Brassic. Her different TV roles see Doctors, 2 roles connected Coronation Street, Holby City, Prisoners Wives, Heartbeat and Waterloo Road.

Former Tina prima Jacqueline is reported to person turned down the accidental to return. A root told The Sun: "Jacqueline loved her clip connected Emmerdale and beingness arsenic an histrion but it was a agelong clip agone and she’s moved on. She lives successful Canada present and has a caller vocation arsenic a novelist and portion she’ll ever beryllium fond of the show, a instrumentality isn’t thing she’s funny in.These things happen, radical determination connected and recasts hap each the time."

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