Emmerdale's Zoe: Screen snogging is 'unpleasant'

Emmerdale's Zoe: Screen snogging is 'unpleasant'
Emmerdale's Zoe: Screen snogging is 'unpleasant'

Emmerdale's Zoe Henry has revealed that screen snogs are more stressful than sexy. The actress, who is married to co-star Jeff Hordley (Cain Dingle) in real life, has been puckering up to Gideon Turner - vet Brett Harrison - as her alter-ego Rhona Goskirk. "I get in such a state about things like that! I'm just terrified that I'm going to look like a complete idiot in some way," she told Inside Soap. "It's genuinely quite an unpleasant experience, as you've got a roomful of men standing about watching what's going on. There's nothing remotely romantic about it." She added: "Thankfully, Gideon was delightful. It was entirely my pleasure by the end - it could definitely have been a lot worse!" Zoe also revealed that the arrival of Rhona's old university friend Vanessa Woodfield, played by Michelle Hardwick, will cause 'fireworks'. She is set to start a new job at the vet's practice in December, which leads to clashes with Rhona's husband Paddy Kirk (Dominic Brunt). "I think there'll definitely be quite a few fireworks when Vanessa arrives!" she teased. "Rhona was young, free and single the last time she and Vanessa were hanging out at university. We've just started filming the scenes where Vanessa returns to her life. They're great, because Rhona starts becoming more of a 'lad about town' as it were - while poor old Paddy is left at home literally holding the baby."

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.