Emmerdale's Lisa Riley has revealed the sad reason she won't be getting married anytime soon.
The soap favourite has been with her partner, Al, since 2014 but admitted she doesn't plan to tie the knot in the near future. The couple got engaged four years ago but both have said personal reasons are keeping them both from walking down the aisle.
Lisa said she doesn't need to sign papers to make their love "official" as they plan to keep living their lives the way they want to. In a conversation with the Mirror, the actress opened up on why she's ditching tradition. She said: "We don’t want to change anything.
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"Both of us talk about it all the time and feel as long as we’re happy we don’t need rings on our fingers. We’ve lost both our mums. And when it comes to things like weddings, you do it for the other people."
The 46-year-old went on to say she had no plans to change her name regardless of a ring on her finger. She added: "I’m never going to change my name, so really, what would be different? And I wouldn’t be able to wear a wedding band very much because I’ve always got Mandy’s jewellery on."
Al lost his mother to cancer earlier this year who Lisa affectionately knew as "Nana." Lisa's own mother, Cath, was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2000, then pancreatic cancer in 2012, the year that she died.
An upcoming Emmerdale storyline shares a strong resemblance to her mother-in-law's journey which made the actress "insular." She said: "There’s a storyline going on soon, where I think my fellow cast members saw me go a bit insular. I can’t give much away, but I thought Sally nailed exactly what happens in palliative care, and I’ve seen that for real."
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