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November 18th, 2009 | 
Author: Seven actors from the hit ITV soap will be taking to the pitch.
They are Danny Miller who plays bad boy Aaron Livesy, James Hooton who plays lovable fool Sam Dingle, Lyndon Ogbourne who stars as heartthrob Nathan Wylde, Adam Thomas who appears as teen tearaway Adam Buxton, new kid James Sutton who plays the character Ryan Lamb and Kelvin Fletcher who stars as farmer Andy Sugden
Veteran actor, 61-year-old Chris Chittell who appears in the soap as unscrupulous aspiring capitalist Eric Pollard, will also be doing a 20-minute turn on the pitch.
The star who has been a firm fixture of the show since 1986, has agreed to auction off prizes after the match including a signed Middlesbrough football and a signed Arsenal penant.
Other prizes have been donated by local businesses including a £50 Co-op hamper and vouchers for Doodlepots and Victorian Image plus a framed 200 anniversary print of Whitby Lifeboat by David Bigland which will be signed by the Emmerdale cast. The Emmerdale team who are calling themselves The All Stars – will be swelled by members of their production crew.
The match has been organised by a number of the crew who play football together on a Monday night.
They came up with the idea for the money-spinner and contacted the Emmerdale stars who have wholeheartedly shown their support and confirmed they will play.
The crew will be wearing their new football strip for the match which has been sponsored by RWB Parkin and Son and Whitby’s The Board Inn. One of the organisers Craig Horrocks said: “We went up to the set recently to meet the crew and they all said they are really excited about playing. Everyone is really looking forward to it.”
Gates open at 1pm and kick off is at 2pm. An entrance fee will be charged on the gate, £3 adults (16s and over), concessions £1.50, under five’s free and a family ticket admitting two adults and two children is £8.
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Dancing on Ice star Roxanne Pallet will get Newcastle’s festive season off to a fairytale start later this week.
The former Emmerdale actress will switch on the city’s Christmas lights on Thursday, 19 November at a ceremony on Grey Street.
Roxanne who is starring in the Theatre Royal’s pantomime Cinderella will do the honours at 6.30pm. She will be joined on stage by panto co-stars Clive Adams and Danny Webb who are playing the Baron and Buttons in this year’s show.
The evening’s festivities will start at 5.30pm when compere Steve Walls will invite everyone in a traditional Christmas singsong.
FORMER Emmerdale star Hayley Tamaddon is the latest celeb to land a spot on the new series of ITV1 hit Dancing On Ice.
The brunette, 32, who played Delilah Dingle, will join a host of others including Paul McCartney’s ex Heather Mills and So Macho singer Sinitta on the celebrity rink this January.
It will not be the first time Hayley has been on reality TV.
She was runner-up to Corrie queen Antony Cotton on ITV1’s Soapstar Superstar in 2007.
A source said: “Hayley’s really excited. She is a really warm character and usually does well on these things.
“She has spoken to other Emmerdale stars who have taken part and they all encouraged her.”
Well done Mr Chittel (Eric Pollard) for entering the Dovedale Dash! in Ashbourne, Derbyshire. An exceptionally muddy 4.75 mile minifell event attended by approx 1200 people all for charity.
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Emmerdale actor Joseph Gilgun is to leave the show early next year, it has been confirmed.
The 25-year-old, who plays ex-con Eli Dingle in the rural serial, announced his decision to quit the soap at the premiere of Michael Cain’s new crime thriller film Harry Brown, in which Gilgun portrays a character called Kenny.
He told the press on the red carpet: “It will be sad to leave – I’ve made a lot of good friends there but I think it is time to move on as far as my career is concerned.”
Of what he’ll miss about working with the programme, he added: “The routine. You get into a massive routine working on a soap. I get to act every day, which is brilliant. And there are massive personalities there. I’ll miss my friends.”
An Emmerdale spokeswoman this afternoon confirmed: “We can confirm that Joseph Gilgun will be leaving Emmerdale early next year but we’re not ruling out the possibility of him returning to the show. We wish Joe all the very best for the future.”
Gilgun – who first appeared in Emmerdale in 2006 after signing a one-month contract – is due to finish filming and make his screen departure in the early part of 2010.