Emmerdale’s Luke Posner raised eyebrows on tonight’s episode, when he washed his hands in time to the Happy Birthday tune. When Victoria Sugden (Isabel Hodgins) quizzed him about the particular song choice, Luke (Max Parker) answered: “It's how we’re supposed to time washing your hands.” When the coronavirus outbreak first spread throughout the UK in early March, Boris Johnson advised the nation to wash their hands in time with the birthday song.
He said: "Crucially, we must not forget what we can all do to fight this virus, which is to wash our hands with soap and hot water for the length of time it takes to sing Happy Birthday twice." Taking to Twitter, fans were convinced the hand-washing reference was linked to the Prime Minister’s