Lisa Riley surprised fans as she reunited with former Emmerdale star Adele Silva.
The actress, who plays Mandy Dingle on the soap, and shared a snap of her and Adele on the soap and a recent one of them side by side.
she penned: ‘On the left 27 years ago on @emmerdale on the right TONIGHT gorgeous catch-up and dinner @gino.leeds with my life long friend @silvaliningx getting older yet getting more giddy.’
Fans were living for the selfie with many begging soap bosses to bring Adele’s character Kelly Windsor back.
@karen_holland_22 wrote: ‘Great pictures. Imagine the scenes if Kelly came back now.’
@bothamamanda replied: ’27……27……it’s can’t be, I feel ancient.’
Actress Adele first appeared in 1993 and left in 2011.
During that time, she gained quite a reputation when it came to relationships, with partners including Jimmy King (Nick Miles), Rodney Blackstock (Patrick Mower) and Ethan Blake (Liam O’Brien).
This comes after Lisa previously revealed how much she would love Kelly to come back to the Dales.
‘I want Kelly Windsor back. I think it would work because she has a link to Jimmy (Nick Miles),’ she told Inside Soap.
Lisa revealed that she and Adele who played Kelly on and off between 1993 and 2011, are still close, despite not having worked together on the soap since 2000.
‘She was Mandy’s best friend, and me and Adele Silva are still really close. I think she’s a great actress and there’s a lot of untold stories there.
‘For example, what did Kelly and Mandy get up to when I wasn’t in the show for all those years?’
That’s a great question, and one we’d love to know the answer to.
And it’s good news for Lisa, as actress Adele hasn’t ruled out a return to the Dales herself.
Speaking to The Sun in October last year, she said: ‘I’d definitely go back if they asked me.’
Kelly still has many links in the Village, as Adele explained.
‘Obviously Kelly’s son is there and she’s not seen him for years. Then there’s little April. You can imagine Marlon’s face if her auntie Kelly turned up. He’d be horrified.
‘Mandy was Kelly’s best friend and there’s the history she has with Kim Tate. I just love Kim, you always know she’s going to be at the heart of an incredible storyline.’
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