

🔥 Top trends keywords English Wiki: Main Page Special:Search Eknath Shinde R. Halliwell released an autobiography in 2014 called If The Cap Fits: My Rocky Road to Emmerdale. In September 2018, Halliwell had to take five months off from Emmerdale for health reasons, which he later revealed was due to having a heart surgery and a pacemaker fitted. He later said that the break was due to staying at a rehabilitation centre for alcoholism.

In 2003, Haliwell took a short break from Emmerdale for personal reasons. Together with Emmerdale co-stars Billy Hartman and Alun Lewis, he was a member of UK 1990s country rock trio the Woolpackers who released the single " Hillbilly Rock Hillbilly Roll" in November 1996. Then in 1994, he joined the cast of the ITV soap opera Emmerdale as Zak Dingle. Äuring the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, he featured in a number of British television series, including Here I Stand, Threads, Cracker, Crown Court, G.B.H. He has also spoke openly about his experiences with depression throughout this period of his life. He was sent to a prison in Ashford for two weeks and was later released on probation. Halliwell was once arrested for sleeping rough in an empty government building in London. He was a founding member of the Interchange Theatre in Bury.

Halliwell was an apprentice engineer and had a number of jobs mainly in cotton and paper mills before drama training at the Mountview Theatre School. He has an older brother, Clive, who is two years older than him. Halliwell was born in Bury, Lancashire, on 21 March 1946 to parents Fred and Jenny Halliwell.
