Ex-'Emmerdale' star in new stripper role

Ex-Emmerdale star Hayley Tamaddon has been given the role of a stripper in ITV's hospital drama The Royal Today.

Tamaddon, who played Delilah Dingle in the Yorkshire-based soap, will star as Alison, a private dancer who hasn't told her husband about her real occupation.

She will make her entrance on the show in a PVC nurse's uniform, which her character has got trapped inside while performing her dance act.

An ITV spokesperson told The Sun: "Alison’s stomach has swollen mid-act so she’s stuck in her costume. Then she is diagnosed with Coeliac Disease and needs a bowel biopsy.

"But Alison doesn’t want her expensive outfit cut off until her husband - who doesn’t know she’s a stripper - arrives on the scene. But he’s got a secret too!"

The episode airs on ITV on February 7.