EastEnders needs Northerners, says Hayley

EastEnders needs Northerners, says Hayley
EastEnders needs Northerners, says Hayley (Image credit: PA Archive/Press Association Ima)

Actress Hayley Tamaddon has revealed she would love a part in EastEnders - and thinks she could bring a touch of northern glamour to the soap. The former Emmerdale star, who was 2010's Dancing on Icechampion made her confession to Inside Soap magazine. I'd love to be in EastEnders - but they don't have many northerners in that show," she said. "It's like everyone who lives in Walford has to be from the East End of London. I think it's about time they got a family from up north moving in. I'd love to be a part of that!" She added that fans of Emmerdale - in which she played Delilah Dingle - were still convinced she was on the show even though she left in 2007. People seem to think I'm still in Emmerdale for some reason, and I have to tell them that I haven't been on set for over three years," Hayley admitted. "The show's really great at the moment, and I've loved all of Danny Miller's stuff as Aaron. But it does make me sad that I'm not part of the Dingle family any more," she added.

Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 

An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.