Big Brother housemate Emma Morgan has a secret soap opera past – that has finally been addressed by ITV.
The new series of the social experiment kicked off on ITV2 last month – with soap fans instantly recognising housemate Emma from her appearances in Coronation Street and Emmerdale.
53 year old Emma Morgan was the second contestant to enter the famed dwelling, and during her time under Big Brother’s watchful eye has managed to avoid being put up for the public vote.
Fans were quick to pick up on where they’d seen her before, with one taking to X to say: ‘Obsessed with the fact that Emma from Big Brother is a former Page 3 model who’s played a nurse in Coronation Street not once but twice.’
The aesthetics business owner and former glamour model is from Altrincham, but originally hails from Essex.
During her introductory video, she said: ‘People ask me if I’m going to be the mother hen in the house – I might have times where I’m the mother hen but generally speaking I’ll be one of the girls. I don’t think I really act my age when I really should so I can’t see myself acting my age in Big Brother.’
With an average age of 28.6875 amongst her roomies, Emma is the oldest of the bunch.
Now, her hidden fame has finally been referenced in a joint social media post between Big Brother and Coronation Street.
During last night’s episode, Emma staged a fake fall in the garden to lure her fellow housemates Khaled and Ali to a secret underground basement where they could discuss who they wanted to be the next Head of House.
‘Do they all think I’ve had a fall?’ asked Emma, with Khaled adding: ‘You’re acting. Do you want to get in Coronation Street?’
Funny you should say that!
In the Instagram clip, a transition cuts to the two occasions she walked on the famous cobbles.
One of these showed her working in Weatherfield General from January 2022, when her character called Tim Metcalfe (Joe Duttine) in for his angiogram, with a concerned Aggie Bailey (Lorna Laidlaw) watching on.
The second video shows her in same role some four months earlier, when Imran Habeeb (Charlie De Melo) was hospitalised with a bloody nose after being punched by Kevin Webster (Michael Le Vell).
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Emma has also starred in Emmerdale, and has been signed to Manchester casting agency Mint since 2011.
On her LinkedIn profile she describes herself as an ‘Actress, tv Presenter, future Hollywood starlet!’, having obtained a Bachelor of Laws at the University of Westminster in 1997.
This article was originally published on 7th October 2024.
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