Emmerdale star Paige Sandhu tipped for Strictly Come Dancing

Paige Sandhu has been tipped to join 'Strictly Come Dancing.'

The 25-year-old actress - who bowed out of her role as murderess Meena Jutla in 'Emmerdale' earlier this month - could be set to join the line up of the BBC ballroom show later this year after quitting her role in the long-running soap, according to the bookies.

Alex Apati, of Ladbrokes, told the Daily Star: "It looks like Paige Sandhu's next move will take her to the dance floor with Strictly chiefs currently leading the way for her signature."

If the former soap star does make it to the ballroom, she will join a long list of 'Emmerdale' alumni who have all found success on the Saturday night favourite, including Kelvin Fletcher - who starred as Andy Sugden for 20 years and won the seventeenth series of 'Strictly' in 2019 with his professional partner Oti Mabuse - as well as Mandy Dingle actress Lisa Riley, who landed in fifth place back in 2012 with Robin Windsor.

Last year's competition was won by fellow soap star Rose Ayling-Ellis - who is known for her role as Frankie Lewis in BBC rival 'EastEnders - and her professional partner Giovanni Pernice.

The news comes just a day after Paige made her last appearance on the Yorkshire-based soap, when the episode broadcast on Easter Monday (18.04.22) saw the village bad girl sentenced to 75 years for the murders of Leanna Cavanagh, Andrea Tate and Ben Tucker.

Paige previously said: "I always thought that Meena’s storyline was going to have to come to an end at some point, because you just can’t let a villain as bad as Meena just carry on. There would be no one left in the village, so her storyline has to come to an end at some point. When I thought about how the writers were going to do that, I thought she has to die because it’s the most epic thing. I just imagined that was what they were going to do but when I found out the storyline that they’ve written, I was like “Ooh this is actually way better than I could have imagined."