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Sir Lindsay Hoyle brings ‘Order’ to TV cleaning soap Emmerdale

By Editorial Board Published January 27, 2025 5 Min Read
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Sir Lindsay Hoyle brings ‘Order’ to TV cleaning soap Emmerdale

Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle has introduced some “Order! Order!” to ITV’s Emmerdale by enjoying a cameo function within the hard-hitting TV cleaning soap.

Proud Lancastrian Sir Lindsay turned up within the fictional Yorkshire Dales village enjoying a rambler visiting its bar and bistro, sporting a tweed jacket and wellies.

Because the long-running cleaning soap first broadcast in 1972, its dramatic storylines have included greater than 150 deaths, 100 weddings and a airplane crash within the village.

However Sir Lindsay’s look, displaying the theatrical aplomb he employs within the Speaker’s chair, was rather more low-key, complimenting the bistro’s proprietor on her Yorkshire tea.

It was additionally very temporary. He headed into the bistro, paid for his cuppa and stated: “It was a lovely cup of tea.” Then, advised: “See you again,” he replied: “I hope so.” And that was that.

Cleaning soap fan Sir Lindsay visited Emmerdale set to mark its 10,000th episode in Might final 12 months, however the broadcasting of his go to was postponed due to the overall election marketing campaign.

Talking earlier than his cameo aired, he stated: “Extremely, Emmerdale has been on our screens for greater than half a century, shining a light-weight on the lived expertise of others, entertaining viewers with its hard-hitting storylines, whereas additionally making a significant financial contribution to the north.

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“It has been an honour to help the cast celebrate the 10,000th episode of this enduring Yorkshire-based soap, with a visit to the Woolpack.”

And he added, tongue-in-cheek: “As a Lancastrian, I’m hugely impressed by the talent and warmth of our friends on the other side of the Pennines.”

Sir Lindsay shouldn’t be the primary senior politician to look in a prime TV cleaning soap, nevertheless.

In 2009, when he was London mayor, Boris Johnson turned up in Albert Sq. in a storyline that noticed Barbara Windsor’s character Peggy Mitchell determine to face as an area election candidate.

The scene for his arrival was set with an irate Peggy declaring she would “give him a piece of her mind” if she ever clapped eyes on him.

Lo and behold, a “bicycle puncture” noticed Mr Johnson seem on the Queen Vic, briefly propping up the bar to ship 4 temporary strains, beginning with: “Oh please, call me Boris.”

As Peggy stated she practically turned concerned in politics herself, Mr Johnson replied: “If you have any ideas for how I could help Walford, here’s my card.”

However the cleaning soap of alternative for prime minister down the years has been Coronation Road, visited by Baroness Thatcher 1990 and Tony Blair in 2005.

Throughout a Commons debate on Corrie’s sixtieth anniversary in 2020, tradition minister John Whittingdale, who was her political secretary earlier than changing into an MP, recalled Maggie’s go to.

“I too have twice visited the set of Coronation Street,” he advised MPs. “The first time I did so was actually with Baroness Thatcher in January 1990 and it was indeed the case that I had to brief her on the way to the set on the characters who were stars at that particular time.

“And I did certainly undergo all the varied storylines and he or she was notably eager to go to Alf Roberts’ nook store, due to course, her personal father was Alfred Roberts who ran the grocery store’s store in Grantham.”

However essentially the most weird hyperlink between a prime politician and a TV cleaning soap got here in 1998 when Mr Blair intervened in a Coronation Road storyline, pleading for the discharge of Deirdre Barlow after she was convicted of against the law she didn’t commit.

Deirdre, a stalwart of the cobbles performed by Anne Kirkbride, was jailed for mortgage and bank card fraud whereas her conman lover Jon Lindsay walked free.

Sir Lindsay’s look in Emmerdale was far much less controversial.

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