Emmerdale actress Shila Iqbal has been axed from the ITV soap, after highly offensive social media posts were unearthed.
Iqbal, 24, recently joined the The Dales as Aiesha Richards.
An Emmerdale spokeswoman told Mirror Online: "As a consequence of historic social media posts Shila Iqbal has left her role as Aiesha Richards on Emmerdale.
"The programme took the decision not to renew her contract as soon as these posts were brought to the company's attention."
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According to Mail Online, Iqbal was fired after bosses learnt of a series of historic 'racist' tweets in which she's alleged to have used the N-word.
The posts are said to have dated back to 2013 when she was 19 years old and attended college in Rochdale.
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Iqbal, has also appeared in Lala’s Ladies, Citizen Khan and the film Eaten By Lions
Iqbal has since deleted her Twitter account but soon after the news of her sacking emerged she apologised, saying: "I am terribly sorry and take full responsibility for my use of such inappropriate language. I have paid the price and can no longer continue the job I loved the most at Emmerdale.
"Although I was young when I made the Tweets, it was still completely wrong of me to do so and I sincerely apologise.
"The only consideration I would ask is that I have recently received hateful tweets telling me that as a Muslim my Emmerdale role means that I am ‘committing sinful acts, promoting sin and deliberately going against the Quran’.
"We live in sensitive times for members of all communities and especially those in multi-racial Rochdale where I grew up.
"I regret that I too have let people down by the use of such language, albeit six years ago. I, like everyone else, have a responsibility about the language I have used on social media as well as in conversation."
