EMMERDALE star Lisa Riley has signed a new contract to keep her on the soap for ‘a long time’ amid her heartbreaking storyline. Lisa , 48, who plays Mandy Dingle on the ITV favourite, confirmed her future on the show, five years after returning to the cast. The actress told Woman's Weekly magazine "I’ve just signed a new long contract and I’m very happy.
"Paddy and Mandy bring such joy to the show – you can rely on the fact that they’re going to bring you that sprinkle of fun and I love that. "It’s 25 years since they married the first time and I’d like to think that I’ll still be in the show in another 25 years – I absolutely love it." In Emmerdale 's latest storyline, Mandy's turned to sex work as a “financial dominatrix” after being left penniless.
read more on Lisa Riley But it's appeared to spell issues for her upcoming wedding to Paddy Kirk, played by Dominic Brunt. They first got hitched in 1999 — after Mandy had briefly been wed to Butch — but split a year later when she had an affair. Paddy went on to marry Emily Dingle , then Rhona Goskirk and Chas Dingle.
Mandy also nearly got married again — in a leopard-print dress — to her former boyfriend, Paul Ashdale, but that ended in tears after she found out he had been abusing his son, Vinny. Most read in TV Mandy has raised Vinny as her own since he was a baby. Yet after falling in love for a second time with Paddy, fans will be left on tenterhooks wondering whether the couple will make it.