Pauline Quirke to renew wedding vows after weight loss

Pauline Quirke has revealed that she and husband Steve will renew their wedding vows next month.

The Emmerdale actress told Woman magazine that the decision had come about after Steve saw pictures showing her dramatic weight loss at the British Soap Awards. Quirke recently confirmed that she had lost almost seven stone since the start of the year.

"The picture made it to one of the magazines," she recalled. "Someone showed it to my Steve and I got a text from him saying, 'Wow. I've just seen the picture of you at the Awards. You look fantastic. I wish I could marry you all over again'.

"From that little seed, we are going to renew our wedding vows in August at home in Buckinghamshire with all our friends there."

The 51-year-old admitted that she wanted to lose eight stone in total, after weighing in at more than 19 stone at Christmas. "I was just getting bigger," she said.

Quirke will bow out of her role as Emmerdale's Hazel Rhodes at the end of her current contract.

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