Roxanne Pallet has complained that she receives unsettling fan mail from a prisoner serving life.

The Emmerdale actress, who plays Jo Stiles, revealed that the man has confessed his "undying love" for her.

"It's awful. You should see the stuff this guy writes to me. It's beyond kinky and it's simply gross," Roxanne told the Daily Star. "The things he says he fantasises about make me feel sick. I'm used to pervy letters but his take the biscuit.

"We get loads of lovely fan mail but also lots of smutty stuff. Some of the things people write to me saying they want to do, you wouldn't believe. I get books and knickers and all sorts of things but this one guy in prison is so persistent, he really freaks me out."