Emmerdale star Samantha Giles has said that the soap’s big summer storyline is so top secret, not even the cast know what will happen.

Samantha plays Bernice Blackstock in the ITV soap and although it has been teasing a dramatic summer to come, she reckoned even she and her co-stars were in the dark about what it would be.

Asked by Digital Spy what was set to unfold, she said: “I’ve no idea at the moment – it’s all been kept hush-hush, actually. I think we’re filming it mid-June, so I imagine we’ll know fairly soon. We’ll certainly know by the end of May.

“I assume that nothing awful is going to happen to Bernice, because I haven’t been told anything!”

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Samantha Giles plays Bernice Blackstock in Emmerdale (ITV)

She went on: “I know that it’s going to be a big extravaganza and it’ll be very exciting and thrilling to watch. I hope I am involved, because obviously it’s terrible if something really exciting is going on and you’re not part of it, but we’ll have to see.”

There have been rumours that some characters could be killed off, but Samantha said that she thought it was all just speculation.

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Samantha Giles thinks her character Bernice is safe in Emmerdale (ITV)

She said: “I think with anything like this, people start to think, ‘What are the implications?’ You’re bound to. But I’m sure that anyone who’s coming to the end of a contract that isn’t being renewed would know what’s going on.

“I think sometimes the papers just like to rev things up to make it sound like there’s such unrest on set, but actually there’s always good communication. It’s good not knowing the ins and outs of all the stories until you get the scripts, because it keeps you excited about what’s going on.”