Emmerdale and EastEnders star Louise Jameson annoyed over ‘not respectful’ axing from soap
Emmerdale actress Louise Jameson revealed she wasn’t too happy about the way she was written out of another big soap.
The actress, 73, made her arrival in the village as Mary Goskirk in 2022 and in recent months has had to deal with the news that her daughter Rhona’s (Zoe Henry) ex-husband used her frozen embryos to conceive a child with his new wife.
She’s had a lengthy battle to get custody of baby Ivy.
Prior to her most recent stint, she played Sharon Crossthwaite in the ITV soap in 1973 – and turned out to be the first ever character to be murdered on the show.
But this isn’t the only soap Louise has appeared in.
Her character Rosa di Marco featured in EastEnders for over two years — frequenting Walford between 1998 and 2000 — and appeared in over 200 episodes before she and the rest of the di Marco clan were axed as part of what was then a major overhaul.
Addressing her departure from the show, Louise said: ‘I was annoyed about the way it was announced.’
She added to Inside Soap: ‘I was only told the night before it appeared in the papers. I thought they could have run it by me first so I could tell my family. It wasn’t respectful.’
Two years after Rosa’s departure, it was revealed that the character had died following a heart-attack — a revelation which proved to be the catalyst in Beppe’s (Michael Greco) departure.
Louise also previously spoke about a storyline that was discussed that she wasn’t happy with, saying: ‘Shortly before that announcement they’d wanted to run a particular story that I wasn’t happy with and I wonder if that was the beginning of my demise. They were going to make Rosa racist.’
‘It’s not that I wouldn’t play a racist if the overall feel was anti-racism. But when you’re in a soap, people identify you so strongly with the character you’re playing so I didn’t want to appear racist.’
Louisa is also known for her role as Leela in Doctor Who.
She was a companion of the Fourth Doctor, played by Tom Baker, and a regular in the programme for forty episodes between 1977 and 1978.