Emmerdale's Craig actor's soap and TV past including Doctor Who role

17 August 2023 , 17:45

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Emmerdale's Craig actor's soap and TV past including Doctor Who role

Emmerdale fans are set to see a familiar face as actor Ben Addis makes his debut as Craig on Thursday's episode, who is a blast from Lydia Dingle's past. In upcoming scenes, Lydia is left shaken to have a reminder of her early days.

Earlier this week, Sam Dingle discovered an old dolls house in a skip and he brought it home to do up for granddaughter Esther’s birthday to which it reminded Lydia of the one she had in the children’s home. As they worked on the doll’s house, Lydia spoke about the children’s home and her late son, Toby.

Emmerdale fans are set to see a familiar face as actor Ben Addis makes his debut as Craig on Thursday's episode

On Wednesday, despite everything to do with Dan Spencer, the Dingles celebrated Sam’s birthday. Elsewhere, Lydia started to worry about her finances after Kim Tate rejected her proposal for more hours. In upcoming scenes on Thursday, wanting to take on a second job, Lydia heads to the Hide recruitment fair in search of another job, which leaves Sam unhappy with the situation.

Things soon take an awkward turn when Lydia sees Kim arrive at the Hide recruitment fair but this is the least of her problems as she's soon left utterly shaken to bump into a mystery man from her past. Having not seen her since the children’s home, Craig’s delighted to have found Lydia again...

Viewers will recognise Craig star Ben Addis from the actor's various television roles over the years. Ben played Doctor Parker from 2019 to 2021 on Hollyoaks. Other credits include DT Ian Quayle in Maryland, Peter Creed in The Girl Before, David Gilloway in Vera and Bob Chilcott in Doctor Who.

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Elsewhere, soap watchers will recall that Lydia was born as Jenny Finn but was placed into Hotten Grange children's home aged just five by her mum, who claimed at the time that she was too ill to look after her. When she was just 15, Lydia became pregnant and gave birth to a stillborn boy in 1990, who she later called Toby, and she buried him in the woodland. Jenny later went missing and changed her name to Lydia.

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Olivia Wheeler