Only Fools and Horses star, Sue Holderness, has revealed she was offered a role on Emmerdale back in the 80's.
It comes as she joins the cast of Eastenders in a guest role, but the 71-year-old actress admitted she could have made her debut into the soap world years earlier but turned down a role in The Dales.
Sue Holderness is best known for her role as Marlene Boyce in Only Fools and Horses, which she played between 1985 to 2003.
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The British sitcom actress has joined the EastEnders' cast for a guest stint this week, playing theatrical agent Estelle Jones.
But her soap career almost started off very differently as she admits she would have wanted to take the part if the timing would have been different.
Sue revealed that she didn't even consider joining the cast of Emmerdale due to having just become a new mum, she said uprooting her family from Windsor to Yorkshire wasn't an option.
In an interview with Whats On TV, Sue explained: “They were very interested in having me on Emmerdale in 1985.
“I had just given birth to my daughter Harriet and we’d moved to Windsor, where my husband was running the theatre.
“To uproot and go over to Yorkshire, I didn’t even consider it.
“I have no idea what role it was for, and didn’t investigate it any further.
“I didn’t want to know what the part was or who was going to play it, because I would like to have done it.”
