Emmerdale GP Manpreet Sharma (Rebecca Sarker) is no shrinking violet when it comes to sharing personal photos with the world.
Back in March we discovered that she was sharing intimate pictures on a website similar to OnlyFans and enjoying the boost in confidence from the reaction she was getting.
Manpreet had been in a bad place at the time, her self esteem shattered after discovering her partner, Charles (Kevin Mathurin), had slept with Laurel Thomas (Charlotte Bellamy).
At first she found the experience really positive, until she started receiving blackmail threats. Obviously not a great position for a GP and pillar of the community to be in.
In real life, Rebecca Sarker, 50, is very active on Instagram, sharing snaps from all aspects of her busy life, including awards ceremonies and photo shoots with fellow Emmerdale cast members.
She loves to post pictures of her holidays, too, and she’s very happy sharing photos of herself in swimwear and bikinis.
In an interview with The Sun she recently revealed that she took a bit of persuading from her husband, Rico, to share these pictures.
‘A few years ago I had been doing some stunt scenes for Emmerdale wearing Lycra pants and a sports bra,’ she said.
‘I sent a picture of me to my husband as I’d been doing some working out and I thought I looked quite good. He said, “Post it on Instagram.” My immediate reaction was, “No, no, I can’t post that.” But after checking with the production team asking if it was too outrageous, I was assured it wasn’t.’
Rebecca enjoys keeping fit and goes cycling or to the gym at least three times a week. She’s proud of how her body looks and is happy to show it off. ‘It’s me being a bit cheeky, having some fun and it’s a chance to show I am happy in myself with how I look and happy being fit and healthy.’
The actress has over 72,000 followers on Instagram and she says she particularly enjoys getting complimentary messages from other women who like the body positivity of the content she posts.
‘I’ve had a lot of really lovely responses — mainly from women. There’s nothing wrong with posting a bikini holiday snap on Instagram,’ she insisted.
On Emmerdale viewers have recently seen Manpreet begin to develop a new friendship with Ruby Miligan (Beth Cordingly).
The two women were forced to spend the night in a police cell after a scrap over Manpreet sleeping with Ross Barton (Michael Parr) – who’d broken Steph Miligan (Georgia Jay)’s heart as a result.
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But a heart to heart between the two at the police station revealed that they had more in common than they thought.
As Manpreet shared her experience of being the sister of notorious killer Meena Jutla (Paige Sandhu), Ruby opened up about the abuse she’d suffered from her father.
By the end of the conversation Ruby was cancelling the cab she’d booked to get Manpreet home and said she would be giving her ‘friend’ a lift home instead.
