Zachariah Bartholomew Dingle is a scrap man, pig merchant, dodgy schemer and the patriarch of Emmerdale’s Dingle family.
It was in Torquay that Steve Halliwell, the actor that plays Zak, realised that he wanted to act. He had left school, and spent time travelling and then doing different seasonal jobs in Torquay:
I was searching for something and it seem there was something more I could do with my life, but I wasn’t quite sure what…
It was after a summer in Torquay spent “boozing and chasing girls” that Steve decided to change his life
When all my friends went back up north, I stayed in Torquay. I was sitting in the library and saw a copy of The Stage for the first time. There was an advert for part-time drama courses at Mountview Theatre School in London. I worked for a few more months in Torquay and then went to London…”
The rest is soap history…
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