Hair-raising: Emma as Fallon, confronting Dynasty icon Joan Collins as Alexis in an episode from 1987
‘Fighting Covid-19 is at the forefront of everyone’s priorities — especially mine’
She is the epitome of glamour, looking sensational as she invites HELLO! to her charming Cotswolds home for this exclusive photoshoot. You would never guess that Emma Samms – who became one of the most famous faces on TV in the dazzling hit 1980s drama Dynasty – has been suffering from long Covid.
Now the actress, 60, who developed the debilitating condition after contracting Covid-19 last March, is reuniting the cast of the cult series to raise funds for the Southmead Hospital Charity, to help thousands of people who, like her, are struggling with the effects of long Covid.
She has organised an interactive virtual Dynasty event with co-stars such as Stephanie Beacham, Heather Locklear and Maxwell Caulfield, which fans around the globe can join.
Emma, who played Fallon Carrington Colby – the daughter of Dame Joan Collins’s character Alexis – in the soap, went on to appear in General Hospital, Casualty and Holby City, but medical drama is now part of her life in reality.
Having co-founded the Starlight Children’s Foundation and received an MBE for services to seriously ill children, she has now joined forces with North Bristol NHS Trust, which is researching long Covid causes, effects, tests and treatments.
“Fighting Covid-19 is at the forefront of everyone’s priorities, especially mine,” she says. “I’ve always been a science fan and I’m in awe of smart people who do noble things.”
Today, though, she is relishing the opportunity to turn on the style, even wearing a ballgown for one of the photos.