‘Lockdown made me miss MY MUM'

Emmerdale star Lisa Riley opens up on what life in isolation has taught her

- SUE CRAWFORD

Even though it’s two years since Lisa Riley got engaged to her fiancé Al, the couple have never been in any rush to walk down the aisle. However, that nearly changed during lockdown, when they decided they were getting on so well it felt like the right time to make things official.

‘I’m normally a real workaholic, so the time we had together was absolute bliss,’ enthuses 43-year-old Lisa, best known as a former Loose Women panellist or as Emmerdale’s larger-than-life Mandy Dingle. ‘We were getting on so brilliantly we were thinking of having a lockdown wedding!

‘I saw that somebody had got married via webcam during lockdown and we spoke about it and thought “why not?”.