Emmerdale icon Sheree Murphy is hoping her former soap character will make a shocking return back from the dead.
Sheree, who is married to Australian footballer Harry Kewell, spent eight years playing Tricia Dingle in the ITV soap Emmerdale, before a stint in 2010 as Eva Strong in Hollyoaks.
Tricia was famously killed off in memorable scenes, when she was caught in a lightening storm outside The Woolpack.
While other soaps have showcased storylines of legends coming back from the dead (Cindy Beale in EastEnders) Sheree hopes that will be the case for her character.
‘But with Mark Charnock, we always used to say, “Can’t they write in Tricia’s evil twin?” she told Daily Express.
Nobody knew she had a twin and then she just turns up in the village looking for her grandad who died years ago or a sister, I don’t know something.
“And then everyone thinks it’s Tricia, but it’s not it’s her evil twin sister.
‘You never know, do you? Something like that. Stupider things have happened in soaps haven’t they. I loved playing that character.’
Sheree had told the soap bosses at the time that she wanted to leave, but now admits that she wishes she’d asked to ‘take a bit of time out’ instead.
‘I remember Steve Frost the producer, who’s now Steve November, when I told him I wanted to leave… what I really should have said was that I just wanted to spend a bit of time out,’ the 44-year-old soap star said.
‘My head was all over the place.
He said: “Oh great, we’ve got a really good storyline actually. We’re going to kill about four people off. We’re going to give it to you now!”
‘I was like: “Oh, OK!” It was a bit of a shock.
‘Now when I look at it, I think maybe I should have fought and said: “No, I will come back, I just need some time out.”
Following her Dales exit, Sheree was seen appearing in Neighbours as Paul Robinson’s love interest Dakota Davies in 2014.
Explaining the role, she said: ‘We lived in Australia while my husband played football out there and the opportunity came up so I was like “absolutely.”‘
