EMMERDALE star Lisa Riley has revealed she is ‘on stand-by for a new job’ ahead of the soap’s huge limo crash stunt.
Lisa, 48, played Mandy Dingle from 1995 to 2001 before returning from 2019 onwards.
In upcoming scenes, the ITV soap will see several villagers’ lives hang in the balance after a terrifying limo crash.
The incident involves 16 regular characters spread across two separate cars.
Speaking to The Mirror, Lisa revealed anxiousness among the cast over which characters will be killed off.
She said: “Whenever there is a stunt that involves a death, I will always be on standby to phone my agent.
“[In case] it means I am going to need to get a new job!”
Meanwhile, Lisa is not the only Emmerdale star expressing concern for their character ahead of the crash.
Mandy’s cousin Cain Dingle is also among the several characters put at risk.
Jeff Hordley, who has played Cain since 2000, revealed he is “worried all the time” in the build-up to the stunt.
He told Metro: “When you hear that they’re doing stunts you instantly think, ‘Somebody’s going to die, somebody’s going to cop it here.’
“Or people being hospitalised, that’s the kind of thing that happens when you do sequences like this.”
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“Every time there’s news of this it can unsettle us as a cast because we know the shelf life of characters is not forever in soaps and it’s down to the producers or the writers to steer the ship and take us in the direction they want to take us.”
Meanwhile, Mandy is joined by seven other female villagers in her limousine.
These include Amy Wyatt (Natalie Ann Jamieson), Tracy Metcalfe (Amy Walsh), Vanessa Woodfield (Michelle Hardwick) and Suzy Merton (Martelle Edinborough).
Rounding out the line-up are Chas Dingle (Lucy Pargeter), Leyla Harding (Roxy Shahidi) and Charity Dingle (Emma Atkins).
Elsewhere, the male-occupied limousine includes Cain, Caleb Miligan (William Ash), Sam Dingle (James Hooton) and Paddy Dingle (Dominic Brunt).
They are joined by Mackenzie Boyd (Lawrence Robb), Liam Cavanagh (Jonny McPherson), Bear Wolf (Joshua Richards) and Matty Barton (Ash Palmisciano).
Who will make it out alive?
Emmerdale continues on ITV1 and ITVX.
