Emmerdale Samantha Giles love life- gender swap, ‘love spell’ and witchcraft
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    Samantha Giles has won over the hearts of the nation with her role in Emmerdale as Bernice Blackstock, despite her character not having the best love life.

    Having played the role on and off for over two decades, Bernice has been involved in many storylines centred around her failed romances.

    Forever in pursuit of love, the beloved ITV soap character returned in 2021 in a bid to reunite with her former lover Liam Cavanagh, but to no avail.

    READ MORE: Emmerdale spoilers: Bernice dementia heartache, Vanessa exits and huge split

    However It seems Samantha's relationship off-camera is much more successful but not without its own soap-like drama.

    The 50-year-old actress, who identifies as a white witch and lives her life according to the principles of Wicca – a modern Pagan religion – has previously admitted to meeting her husband after casting a "love spell".

    As Bernice takes on a new storyline surrounding the menopause, Daily Star has taken a look inside Samantha's love life.

    Samantha has made secret that she identifies as a white witch and lives her life according to the principles of Wicca – a modern Pagan religion.

    Under her witchcraft principles, the soap star has previously admitted to meeting her husband after casting a "love spell".

    She exchanged vows with production manager Sean Pritchard in 2010, but she believes they might never have met had it not been for her practice of Wicca rituals.

    Speaking last March, the actress revealed she conjured a love spell to attract the right man after ending a tumultuous relationship.

    She told OK!: "I met him three months after the spell. It’s about things being aligned.

    "Sometimes people say to me, ‘I put this thought out there and it didn’t work!’ But sometimes things aren’t in the right place so you have to let them go until it’s time.”

    She also elaborated on the lengths she went to in order to find a compatible partner.

    “I'd come out of a disastrous relationship and I didn't want to be messing about with any waste-of-space boyfriends,” she said.

    “I used Pagan witchcraft and wrote down exactly what I was after and used candles and crystals.”

    Speaking to The Mirror, she added: “It isn’t as bonkers as it sounds. I wrote down exactly what I was after and used candles and crystals to do the magic.

    “A few months later exactly what I’d written appeared. As if by magic! It’s no different to the book, The Secret. You ritualise and visualise and get what you want in life.”

    Having practiced the principles of the Pagan religion, Wicca, Samantha says her eventual romance and subsequent marriage to husband Seansignifies a curious gender reversal following what she believes to be a previous encounter in another life.

    Discussing her use of past life regression on the Wonderbirds YouTube show, she said: “It was weird really, because I was this man actually, and I’d gone to work on this fairground, and the weird thing is it was before I’d met my husband, but I looked like my husband.

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    “I had black curly hair and the woman that I was marrying, if you like, looked like me now.”

    She went on to say that because of this vision, she felt like she had met her husband before.

    She added: “So when I met my husband, I had this feeling of meeting him when I saw him – ‘I know you, I’ve met you before.’ So it was almost as if we’d looked like each other in another life.”

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