Adele Silva says there were "no intimacy coordinators" during her time on on 'Emmerdale.'
Adele Silva talks about shooting her first sex scenes on Emmerdale
The 41-year-old actress played the role of Kelly Windsor on the ITV soap opera from 1993 until 2011 and explained that she had her first sex scene when she was 16 but "didn't think" much about it even though she wasn;t very "experienced."
She said: "I had my first sex scene when I was 16. It was on a sofa with my teacher. I wasn’t very experienced in that department, but I didn’t think much of it at the time."
The former soap star went on to add that when she was started filming scenes for the ITV show - which is set to celebrate its 50th anniversary later this month - it was different to nowadays and was more thrilled at the idea of being in a big storyline that saw her embark on an affair with teacher Tom Bainbridge, played by Jeremy Turner-Welch.
She told The Sun newspaper: "It’s not like it is nowadays, with intimacy coordinators.But you knew when you were doing a kissing scene there were would be no tongues. It wasn’t like a proper kiss. “I remember thinking, ‘This is such a big storyline’, and then that was it, something was unleashed in Kelly — she got her taste for the men in the village."
Meanwhile, Adele went on to add that she was glad to have been on screen in a time without scoial media and joked that she would only face backlash from "old ladies in supermarkets" over her promiscuous character.
She said: "I’m quite relieved in a way because I would have been the prime fodder for trolling and abuse. Everyone thought I was like Kelly in real life. I’d get the odd comment from girls on a night out, but luckily it wasn’t anything major. I’d get it more from the older ladies when I was out shopping. They’d be like, ‘You are a naughty girl’ and start telling me off. But they weren’t talking to me as Adele, they are talking to me as Kelly!"