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Dramatic departure for Emmerdale star
Holly Barton will soon suffer an overdose of heroin on screen
Since I knew nothing about Emmerdale - other than the obvious Linda Lusardi connection - it took good old Wikipedia® to put me right that the person pictured is not the said Barton, but the person (with a challenging surname) who plays her:
Holly Barton is a fictional character from the British soap opera Emmerdale, played by Sophie Powles. She made her first on-screen appearance on 17 July 2009
What I'm wondering is of a manifold nature:
* Whether AOL®'s 'people' had any idea who this Barton about whom they wrote was
* In any case, why they chose to use a photo of Sophie P. standing in front of the logo of a duscredited and defunct newspaper
* Unrelatedly, why the item just days ago that reported Lorraine Kelly falling off her horse appeared weeks after a small mention in i newspaper around a week before the end of February*
End-notes
* I have checked, and it was in the edition on Thursday 23 February. So much for 'breaking news' (pun probably intended)!
The full item, under the heading Lorraine Kelly hurt falling from horse (which pretty much is the story), read:
TV presenter Lorraine Kelly said she got a "real fright"** after falling from a horse, which then stamped on her leg. The 52-year-old lost a lot of blood and was rushed to hospital for surgery after the accident on Tuesday [i.e. 21 February]. Ms Kelly tweeted that the horse had made a deep wound that would take several weeks to heal properly [sc. around the time, then, that AOL® reported it as if it were, at least, recent].
** Why this isn't "a real fright" is beyond me (or, although it may be i's house-style, with single quotation-marks).
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