Emmerdale’s Lisa Riley Shares Glam Prep and Fun Selfie for 2025 British Soap Awards

Lisa Riley has revealed her extensive glam preparations ahead of the 2025 British Soap Awards, which take place on Saturday.

The Emmerdale star, 48, took to her Instagram page on Friday with a hilarious selfie of her with a foam moustache. 

She penned alongside the snap: ‘The preparation for tomorrow nights @thebritishsoapawards on ITV continues this morning….

‘Last night nails✅ brows waxed and tinted roots✅ greys diminished ✅ today has started with the upper lip getting the TLC it deserves. 

‘Really excited to have a lovely night with all my Emmerdale family.’

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Emmerdale’s Lisa Riley revealed her extensive glam preparations for the 2025 British Soap Awards as she shared a hilarious with a foam moustache to her Instagram page on Friday 

At last year’s awards ceremony, Lisa was among the stars to walk away with awards as the Dingle clan were named Best Family (pictured 2024) 

At last year’s awards ceremony, Lisa was among the stars to walk away with awards as the Dingle clan were named Best Family.

The Dingles’ award came as the family celebrated 30 years at the centre of the Emmerdale action.

Lisa looked stunning for the awards show as she donned a black and white patterned ruched gown, complete with a sweetheart neckline and capped sleeves.

Fans will have to wait and see what she pulls out the hat for the 2025 ceremony. 

Earlier this year, Lisa admitted that there’s ‘never a day’ she feels ‘safe’ from being axed as a jobbing actor on the soap.

The actress has played Mandy Dingle in the ITV soap on and off since 1995, but candidly told how she and her fellow cast members don’t take their jobs for granted amid ever going changes.

At the time, ITV confirmed that Coronation Street and Emmerdale would be moving to a new scheduling pattern amid ongoing budget cuts, while a number of cast have either quit or have been axed in recent months.

Addressing the lack of job security, Lisa revealed in an interview that she’s well aware her position on the soap can change at any moment, noting that producer’s treat the cast ‘like chess pieces’ when it comes to the control of their fate.

The actress has played Mandy Dingle in the ITV soap on and off since 1995

It comes after Lisa admitted that there’s ‘never a day’ she feels ‘safe’ from being axed as a jobbing actor on the soap

She told The Mirror: ‘We are all jobbing actors on the soap and there is never a day where we come in and go: “Oh we are safe”. We are a chess piece on the producer’s board. Whatever they bring to us, we bring it to the screen.

‘And there is always going to be a day when a new producer might come in and need a big wipe out. That is what keeps the audience involved too and so we have to keep up with the climate of what people expect.’

Despite sometimes facing job uncertainty, Lisa told how she loves being on the soap as she praised just how hard soap operas work in comparison to other dramas.

She added: ‘Whenever I am out and about, people tell me: “We love Emmerdale”. The fact that I get to be part of it is wonderful. ITV make some big dramas that can be five episodes long. We do five parts in a week. The hamster wheel never stops.’

Lisa’s talk about episodes comes amid a huge shake-up for both Coronation Street and Emmerdale as episodes have been slashed as ITV budget cuts rage on.

During this time, Emmerdale aired six episodes weekly, Monday to Friday with a double bill on Thursdays.

Meanwhile, Coronation Street also aired six episodes per week, with two episodes every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.

Now, only five 30-minute episodes of each show air – a real terms cut to soap broadcast time of 17%.

Bosses introduced a soaps power hour from Monday to Friday with 30-minute Emmerdale episodes airing at 8pm and 30-minute Coronation Street episodes airing at 8:30pm.

However, each episode will continue to drop at 7am on ITVX before transmission that same evening.