Emmerdale star Samantha Giles has a side hustle job that’s words away from playing Bernice Blackstock on the ITV soap.
The actress, 52, has been a staple on the long-running show for over two decades – making her debut back in 1998. Since then, she’s become a firm favourite with viewers.
And it’s fair to say Bernice has been involved in many storylines centred around her failed romances. But away from the iconic Dales, Samantha has a second job that is completely different.
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Over on Samantha’s website, fans can find her own online shop. Identifying as Wiccan – a follower of a modern pagan religion – the soap star sells a range of charms and spells, as well as copies of her book.
Samantha said on the site: “Each charm and spell comes beautifully packaged with all necessary instructions. And remember any spells undertaken must be for your greater good!”
She added: “Some spells require that you cast them when it’s either a full or new moon. Instructions are provided with each spell.”
The items on offer range from the “Change Your Luck” charm, priced at £12.99 to “Love Spell” which is going for £15.50. There is also a spell to apparently “help mend a broken heart” which costs £12.99.
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Under her witchcraft principles, the soap star has previously admitted to meeting her husband after casting a “love spell”. She exchanged vows with production manager Sean Pritchard in 2010, but she believes they might never have met had it not been for her practice of Wicca rituals.
Speaking in March 2022, the actress revealed she conjured a love spell to attract the right man after ending a tumultuous relationship. She told OK!: “I met him three months after the spell. It’s about things being aligned.
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“Sometimes people say to me, ‘I put this thought out there and it didn’t work!’ But sometimes things aren’t in the right place so you have to let them go until it’s time.”
She also elaborated on the lengths she went to in order to find a compatible partner she said: “I’d come out of a disastrous relationship and I didn’t want to be messing about with any waste-of-space boyfriends.
“I used Pagan witchcraft and wrote down exactly what I was after and used candles and crystals.” Speaking to The Mirror, she added: “It isn’t as bonkers as it sounds. I wrote down exactly what I was after and used candles and crystals to do the magic.
“A few months later exactly what I’d written appeared. As if by magic! It’s no different to the book, The Secret. You ritualise and visualise and get what you want in life.”
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