SHE has played alcoholic Liv Flaherty for six years.
But Emmerdale’s Isobel Steele has sensationally quit the ITV soap, to focus on music, and will be killed off in dramatic scenes later this month.
Isobel Steele is leaving Emmerdale after being part of the cast for six years
The actress, who scooped Best Young Actor at the 2018 British Soap Awards, bows out as Emmerdale marks its 50th anniversary.
A source revealed: “It’s been a big decision for Isobel but she’s ready to try new things.
“She feels like she’s done all she can at Emmerdale and wants to focus on her music career and make a real go of it. Bosses have pulled out all the stops for the 50th anniversary month and Isobel’s exit will be no different.
“Viewers are going to be on the edge of their seats as it all plays out and Liv is killed off. It’s a real heartbreaker, a death fans will remember for a long time to come.”
Horrifying storm
Meanwhile Isobel’s close friendship with screen brother Danny Miller has convinced him to make a shock return to the soap, for her big exit, less than a year after he quit.
The source said: “Danny and Isobel are like brother and sister in real life. There is real affection between them. There was no way he wouldn’t return.”
This month will see a horrifying storm rip through the village, ripping up trees and putting lives in danger.
Bosses have shared the first look of the destroyed village, with the iconic Woolpack sign barely hanging in the wake of the destruction.
An Emmerdale spokeswoman declined to comment.
Sam will launch the NTAs
EUROVISION star Sam Ryder is preparing to deliver an out-of- this-world opening for the National Television Awards.
He will perform his Eurovision song Space Man to kick off the ceremony which takes place at Wembley Arena on October 13.
Sam Ryder will deliver an out-of-this-world opening for the National Television Awards
Sam finished second in the song contest earlier this year, which was watched by ten million people.
He feels just as much trepidation about taking centre stage at the NTAs, which he is a huge fan of.
But commenting on his upcoming performance, he said: “This year, instead of watching I’ll be getting up off the sofa to actually perform at the NTAs.
“I couldn’t be more excited to spend the evening singing my head off and celebrating the work of such amazing individuals across the television industry.”
Graham: Why Tom is tops
GRAHAM NORTON has explained how Tom Cruise endears himself to everyone when he appears on his show.
He told an audience at the Theatre Royal in Norwich: “When he arrives at the studio we say, ‘This is Catherine, the line producer, this is Pete, who you spoke to on the phone, this is Alan, and he will show you on to the set’.
“And on the way out he is like, ‘Alan, thanks for your help. Where is Pete?’ It means the people who work on our show worship him. That is a level of ambition.
I have to admire that and say, ‘You are Tom Cruise, the biggest movie star in the world’, and that is no accident. He has focused his whole life on that and it has come true, so hats off to him.”
Ry knew he had to wave bye bye
RYLAN Clarke thought he had landed a swell deal when he hosted game show The Wave – but he has revealed it was axed after it almost ended up being deadly.
The bonkers series, on the W Channel in 2018, saw contestants answer questions while swimming in the sea in Portugal – with weights added if they gave wrong answers.
Rylan admitted: “Just as (one man) jumped in to start swimming, it was as if God thought he’d have a laugh, because this dense fog descended over the entire bay. We couldn’t see the contestant anywhere.
“He turned up a mile down the beach, gasping for air and suffering from mild hypothermia.
“I’m sure he was f**ing traumatised.”
And that wasn’t the only near-death experience on the chaotic show.
In his book Ten: The Decade That Changed My Future, Rylan wries: “I think her name was Debbie. Debbie was very hench, very healthy and at the end of it she was basically bundled into an ambulance, wrapped in the Bacofoil cape.
“I was terrified, thinking, ‘No, this ain’t the one. This is not the one. I am never doing this show again’.
“It was crazy. I still don’t know how we got the insurance for it.”
BRAD HAS NICE WAD
QUIZ host Bradley Walsh has cemented his place as one of the country’s highest-paid TV stars.
The presenter of ITV’s The Chase made £15million in the last financial year, up £2.6million on the previous 12 months, accounts for his firm Wingit Productions say.
He also fronts the new BBC1 reboot of quiz show Blankety Blank and last year starred in ITV country-life drama The Larkins, based on HE Bates’ 1958 novel The Darling Buds Of May.
A source said: “This is the reward for all the hard yards Bradley has put in. He is now at the top of his game.”
Very smart, Mart
MARTIN COMPSTON is suited and booted on the set of new drama Mayflies.
The Scots actor, also known for his dapper dressing as Line of Duty’s DS Steve Arnott, sports a navy three-piece as he stands alongside a wedding car while filming for the BBC series, based on Andrew O’Hagan’s book.
He co-stars with Marvel actor Tony Curran.
