After their romantic wedding on a Caribbean
beach earlier this year Emmerdale actress Deena Payne and
musician Steve Grant invited family and friends
to join them for a traditional blessing in the 13th-
century church near their Yorkshire home.
Deena reveals the show has decided to call time on Viv Hope,
one of its most popular figures, after 17 and a half years, making
her the longest-serving female cast member.
Deena heard her role was being axed a few weeks
ago while on holiday in Germany. “My first feeling
was a rope had been taken off, complete relief,”
says Deena.
“Then came the feelings of
anxiousness – you worry about financial security
– then rejection, which isn’t nice at all.”
Although shocked at the news, Deena says
she’d been expecting something to happen as
her character, once the centre of village life, had
increasingly less to do.
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