Instead of typecasting her, ie as a bitch. I'd have her come in as yet another long lost member of the Dingle family, and have her involved with that scruffy bloke (Zak's brother). I'd actually tune in to see that!
Joan Collins and Shadrach dingle. You couldn't make this stuff up. I can think of more appealing mature women who could appear in Emmerdale, but if Barbara Windsor can carry it off in EE for years and she's not a kick of the bum of 70 herself.
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