PATSY Kensit is quitting Emmerdale — for...
PATSY Kensit is quitting Emmerdale — for Holby City.
The stunning blonde, who plays superbitch Sadie King in the ITV1 soap, has landed a starring role on the BBC1 medical drama.
She has signed up to play a nurse from next October after she leaves the farm soap following a two-year stint.
Patsy, 37, told The Sun it was hard work commuting from her home in Notting Hill, West London, all the way to Leeds, where Emmerdale is filmed.
She has to leave her sons James, 13, and Lennon, six with their nanny. Patsy said: “Like any mum who works, I have days when I go, ‘Oh my God’. But my boys are very supportive of me doing it. They’re very proud.
“I didn’t want to move them up to Leeds because they’re both very happy at their school and with their friends.
“So there are a lot of 4am starts.”
City girl ... as Sadie in the rural soap
Im well pleased! One of my fav actresses moving to another of my fav TV Shows!!! Patsy Kensit in a nurse's uniform :D
But Patsy will now have to travel only 40 minutes to work as Holby City shares the EastEnders studios in Elstree, Herts.
Last night she said: “After two fantastic years at Emmerdale and ITV, I am thrilled to be offered the opportunity of joining Holby City at the BBC.
“I will really miss all my friends at Emmerdale but look forward to living and working in London full time.”
Holby’s producers said: “Her character will come into the show as a nurse who has more than a few secrets to hide and an attitude that cannot fail to ruffle the feathers of her colleagues.”
Patsy — starring in Aladdin at the Richmond Theatre, South West London — said she hopes to have a long career on British TV “like Joanna Lumley”.
