Emmerdale star Samantha Giles reveals she’s a Wicca witch – and says she used a love spell to woo her husband

• Samantha Giles revealed she is a witch and used a love spell to find her partner
• Read more: Emmerdale legend QUITS award-winning role after 25-years

Emmerdale star Samantha Giles has revealed she is ‘a witch’ and used a love spell to find her partner, Sean Pritchard.

The actress, 52, joined Alison Hammond and Dermot O’Leary on the This Morning couch to speak about practising Wicca, also known as The Craft, which is described as ‘a modern pagan, syncretic, earth-centered religion’.

The soap actor, famous for playing Bernice Blackstock, says she started making her own spell kits in 2011 and often sells them at psychic fayres.   

Samantha, who is the author of Rosemary and The Witches of Pendle Hill and Rosemary and the The Book of The Dead, admitted: ‘I did do a love spell to manifest my husband when I met him, well, 18 years ago now’.

‘I had a few shoddy boyfriends so I wanted to be a bit more specific with what I was after and I think that’s the key to it, to be a bit more specific with what you want to manifest.

Emmerdale star Samantha Giles revealed she is a witch and used a love spell to find her husband, Sean Pritchard, on This Morning on Friday 

‘You might think your type is type A but actually maybe that type is not right for you, sometimes going against type is a good thing to do.’

However she did reveal that the spell won’t always work, saying it’s also ‘all about your mindset’. 

She said: ‘It’s massively about belief, there is no point trying a spell if you don’t believe it’s going to work, and also I have to say it’s a last resort, you can’t just be lazy saying I want this to happen, you have got to be doing practical things and the magic is the last thing you do.’ 

Speaking about her childhood the author admitted witchcraft runs in the family as her mother could read palms.   

She said: ‘My mum used to read palms when I was young, she never learnt anything but she used just look into people’s hands and it would just come to her.

‘I never used to be able to do that but because we grew up with all that around us and we lived in the countryside and doing things outside.’

She admitted that she’s got more interested in Wicca as she’s got older.

Samantha pictured with her husband of 18 years at The Cure Usher Ball in Manchester 

Samantha is the author of Rosemary and The Witches of Pendle Hill and Rosemary and the The Book of The Dead admitted

The actress, 52, joined Alison Hammond and Dermot O’Leary on the This Morning couch to speak about practising Wicca, which also known as The Craft, and is a modern pagan, syncretic, earth-centered religion

She said: ‘You don’t have to do the magic to be a Wiccan but I like to use it to empower and enable people in their own lives.’

She admitted she even helped This Morning’s Queen of soaps Sharon Marshall on her IVF journey by giving her a ‘change of luck charm.’

She explained: ‘A change of luck charm has been very successful when people are using IVF. She won’t mind me talking about this because she has spoke about it herself.

‘She had several attempts, I think about five to seven and she carried the [change of luck] crystals with her and she had a successful pregnancy, and I think she bought them for all her friends who were going through the same journey and I am pretty sure they all worked.’

It comes after the star said she is calling time on playing barmaid Bernice Blackstock after 25 years making it the fourth time she has quit the soap since her 1998 debut.

With a source telling The Sun:’Bernice Blackstock has been in and out of Emmerdale village more than they change the barrels at The Woolpack.

Speaking about her childhood the author admitted it runs in the family as her mother could read palms

She admitted she even helped This Morning’s Queen of soaps Sharon Marshall on her IVF journey by giving her a ‘change of luck charm’

Samantha will bow out later this year, making it the fourth time she has quit the soap since her 1998 debut (pictured on the show in 1999 with co-star John Middleton)

‘She’s always welcomed back with open arms by ITV and fans alike, but it’s now becoming a bit of a running joke.’

‘It wouldn’t pay to bet on whether Samantha will one day be back, but for now she will leave the soap later this year.’

During her stint on the show the character has been involved in a whole host of dramatic storylines and Samantha was awarded Best Soap Actress at the 2000 TV Quick Awards

She originally exited the show in 2002 before joining the cast of Hollyoaks in 2008 as Valerie Holden, a role she played for two years.

Samantha then returned to the dales in 2012 for a seven-year stretch before leaving again to pen her children’s book Rosemary and the Witches of Pendle Hill.

In May 2021 she returned to the soap for one final time.

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