Emmerdale actress Louise Jameson revealed she wasn’t too happy about the way she was written out of another big soap.
The actress, 72, made her arrival in the village as Mary Goskirk in 2022, but prior to that, she played Sharon Crossthwaite in the ITV soap – who turned out to be the first ever character to be murdered on the show.
And this wasn’t the only soap Louise has appeared in.
Her character Rosa di Marco featured in EastEnders for over two years — frequenting Walford between 1998 and 2000 — and appeared in over 200 episodes before she and the rest of the di Marco clan were axed as part of what was then a major overhaul.
Addressing her departure from the show, Louise said: ‘I was annoyed about the way it was announced.’
She added to Inside Soap: ‘I was only told the night before it appeared in the papers. I thought they could have run it by me first so I could tell my family. It wasn’t respectful.’
Two years after Rosa’s departure, it was revealed that the character had died following a heart-attack — a revelation which proved to be the catalyst in Beppe’s (Michael Greco) departure.
Louise also previously spoke about a storyline that was discussed that she wasn’t happy with, saying: ‘Shortly before that announcement they’d wanted to run a particular story that I wasn’t happy with and I wonder if that was the beginning of my demise. They were going to make Rosa racist.’
‘It’s not that I wouldn’t play a racist if the overall feel was anti-racism. But when you’re in a soap, people identify you so strongly with the character you’re playing so I didn’t want to appear racist.’
Louisa is also known for her role as Leela in Doctor Who.
She was a companion of the Fourth Doctor and a regular in the programme from 1977 to 1978.
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