EMMERDALe DEATH SHOCK

GONERVerity Rushworth bids farewell to EmmerdaleWINDSOR!’s Donna Windsor – and her mum

t’s a sad week for Emmerdale ​Verity has a long history with very bright and funny.” fans as Verity Rushworth Emmerdale, starring in the soap One of the biggest leaves the soap – for good this for 11 years before first quitting challenges for Verity was time. And it’s not just viewers in 2009. After her tragic final scenes portraying Donna’s who will be sorry to see the air this week (more on p19), there is heartache at knowing actress go – Verity’s mum no way back – but the actress finds she would never get to Fiona I also had to say goodbye to that more exciting than scary. see her daughter grow up. her daughter, who had moved back “It’s very definite this time, “I’m not a mum in real home for five months while at the the end of an era,” she says. “It’s life, so I can’t imagine how Emmerdale set in West Yorkshire. great to go out with a bang. It’s it feels to have to face “Mum’s really upset,” admits quite a shocking exit. leaving your child behind,” Verity, 28, who plays terminally “Emmerdale is one of the she shares. “I had a friend ill Donna Windsor. “I’m an friendliest places to work who lost her baby and she only child, so she found and I was welcomed told me about the things it hard to have me back back with open arms she went through the other in Leeds and then “it’s the end and felt at home way round. I just wanted swan off to London of an era – straight away. It to get it right and do it again. She absolutely could have been justice. Hopefully I did.” spoiled me rotten. She donna goes out completely different, #Emmerdale was cooking scones, with a bang” or weird or awkward Yorkshire puddings, and but they absolutely dropping me off at work and made me feel like one picking me up again. It was like of the team again.” reverting back to being a child. Verity promises she will I was well looked after.” keep in touch with As much as she will miss her five-year-old Amelia mother, Verity is pleased to be Flanagan, who back in the capital, where she has plays Donna’s a successful West End career and daughter April. a home with her theatre-producer “Amelia husband Dominic Shaw, who she has been married in March last year. an absolute “It’s nice to be home,” she says. dream to work “We’ve had our house for a year with,” she The actress formed a and I’ve never really lived in it!” reveals. “She’s bond with Amelia, who Verity married plays Donna’s daughter April WATCH IT! Emmerdale Weekdays Times vary ITV Dominic in March 2013

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