Actor quits series
From TONY VERDON London correspondent
The British actor Freddie Pyne is quitting as one of television’s most popular soap characters, Matt Skilbeck in “Emmerdale Farm.”
As one of the original cast, Pyne has been in the series for 17 years.
Producers reportedly offered him a lucrative new contract to stay, but he turned them down.
“I’ve told them I’ll do another few months, then I’m off,” he told the “Daily Mirror” newspaper.
“I want to go away and clear my brain for a little while and see what other offers of work there are around.”
Apart from a Christmas pantomime, Pyne has no other acting work lined up.
But he told the Mirror: "I’ve turned 50 and after 17 years in the same show I feel in a rut.”
Pyne said he would be leaving the show to see if he could get some good parts in the theatre.
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