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Kirsty McCormack

Loose Women gobsmacked at ex-Emmerdale star Sammy Winward’s lookalike daughter

The Loose Women panel were stunned on Tuesday's show as they welcomed former Emmerdale star Sammy Winward onto the show.

The 35-year-old actor is best-known for playing Katie Sugden on the ITV soap, and now her teenage daughter is eyeing up an acting career too.

Panelists Kaye Adams, Stacey Solomon, Janet Street-Porter, and Jane Moore were gobsmacked at how alike Sammy and her 16-year-old child Mia are.

The mother and daughter duo are literally peas in a pod, and look more like sisters.

Sammy gave birth to Mia in June 2005 when she was 19-years-old whilst in a relationship with footballer David Dunn.

The Loose Women panel were stunned on Tuesday's show as they welcomed former Emmerdale star Sammy Winward onto the show (ITV)

Janet was intrigued by their friendly relationship and said: "The idea of being friends with my mum I always found a bit creepy. Are there times when you have to put your foot down?"

"Oh of course, ten times a day," Sammy replied. "Yeah absolutely, there’s a fine line between being mates and having that mother daughter relationship.

"When we argue, nine times out of ten it will end up in giggles!" she laughed.

The panel were stunned at just how much Sammy's 16-year-old daughter Mia looks like her (ITV)

The panel then asked Mia about following in her mother's footsteps and pursuing an acting career.

"I’ve just got a new agent recently," Mia explained. "Mum has just said, 'just be polite, be yourself, be respectful to people around you, always have a back up'.

"'Don’t just rely on getting auditions and stuff because you have to realise it doesn’t always end with getting the job, so you have to have something to do in the mean time'," Mia added.

Sammy Winward played the role of Katie Sugden in Emmerdale from 2001 until 2015 (ITV)

The panel then joked about Sammy going back to Emmerdale as a ghost, while Janet suggested that Mia could play her character's long lost sister.

Sammy confirmed in November 2014 that she would leaving Emmerdale in February 2015 after 13 years to pursue other interests, projects and acting roles.

On February 5, 2015, her character Katie died due to a fall at Wylie's Farm after falling through rotten floorboards after being pushed to the ground by her ex-lover and brother-in-law Robert Sugden.

Since then Sammy has starred in ITV drama Prey as Lucy Murdoch for two series and also played Siobhan Murphy in two episodes of ITV’s Fearless

Loose Women airs weekdays at 12:30pm on ITV.

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