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‘My best job ever? BEING A MUM!’

She’s one of Yorkshireset soap Emmerdale’s longest-serving stars, having first joined the show 22 years ago, but despite enjoying a hugely successful career, Zoë Henry admits that when she was younger her dreams were as far from the spotlight as it’s possible to be.

‘As a little girl, the only aspiration I had was to be a mother; I wanted six babies,’ Zoë recalls with a smile.

‘And actually, it is the best job in the world. Give me motherhood over any play, or TV or film job – it comes in above everything,

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