EMMERDALE may have come to a halt due to coronavirus but before they go, viewers will get a moment of joy tomorrow night. Lydia Hart will marry Sam — and join the soap’s legendary Dingle family in a ceremony that includes drinking beer from a welly in true Yorkshire style.
And Karen Blick, who plays Lydia, says her own wedding to hubby Simon in 2011 was a similarly frugal affair. The actress, who has been on the ITV show since 2016, managed to get a bargain deal through discount site Groupon and paid less than two grand for her big day, including a three-course dinner for 100 guests and a knees-up in the evening.
In an exclusive chat, she said: “We had a Dingle element to ours. “We had been together for years and so we didn’t want to spend.