Samantha Giles fears she may not act again

Samantha Giles fears she may never work again.

The former \'Emmerdale\' star - who played Bernice Blackstock on and off on the ITV soap from 1998 until last year - admitted she has been wondering if she will act again, and insisted this is a "common thought" among out of work actors.

She wrote on Twitter: "Don\'t usually post gloomy tweets but today feels like a mammoth task ahead. Will I ever work again? (Common thought in out of work actors I\'m afraid) (sic)"

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Several of her followers tried to cheer Sam up including her former Dales co-star Natalie Anderson (Alicia Metcalfe), who described her pal as "amazing".

She wrote: "Sending big hugs Sam! Just remember you\'ve written a best seller in the year of the pandemic!! You\'re amazing!! (sic)"

After a wave of uplifting tweets, the 49-year-old star - who released her debut novel \'Rosemary and the Witches of Pendle Hill\' last month - planned to "find some positives" for the rest of the day.

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She tweeted: "Right! I\'ve had a moan and a boo and now I\'m moving on- there\'s so many folk in worse situations. Thanks for all your lovely messages. I\'m going to find some positives today. X (sic)"

Samantha recently admitted she likes to "take risks" in life, and said landing a literary agent was one of the "hardest things" she has done in her career.

The star explained: "It is, because I didn\'t know if it would ever get published to be honest.

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"When I\'d written it first, I sent it round to agents, and getting a literary agent, oh my God! It\'s one of the hardest things - getting an acting agent is pretty hard!

"I like taking risks sometimes. I think, \'Come on, life\'s short, let\'s do something dangerous. Let\'s take a risk\'.

"Why not? What\'s the worst that could happen? Oh, I won\'t get any work? OK, well I\'ll just have to find something else."