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Deena Payne is to be axed from 'Emmerdale' after 18 years.

Mon, 11 Oct, 2010 - 12:41

Deena Payne is to be axed from 'Emmerdale' after 18 years.

The 56-year-old actress - who joined the rural soap in 1993 as village gossip Viv Hope - is set to leave the rural soap after almost two decades as the show's longest serving female star.

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