EXCLUSIVE: The previous Emmerdale star has opened up on an thrilling new skilled and private chapter in her life.
Former Emmerdale star Verity Rushworth has discovered love once more (Picture: Verity Rushworth)
Former Emmerdale star Verity Rushworth, who performed Donna Windsor within the long-running ITV cleaning soap, has revealed she has discovered love once more following her divorce and is embarking on a brand new chapter in her life. The 40-year-old married Dominic Michael Shaw, with whom she shares two youngsters, in 2013 however the couple finalised their divorce in 2021. Talking completely to Categorical.co.uk she gave an replace on her love life revealing she is relationship property developer Anthony Martin and the couple have even gone into enterprise collectively working a profitable property growth enterprise referred to as MartinRushworth.
The star cannot cease grinning as she remembers their assembly. “Nicely, we obtained arrange on a blind date by my buddy Nicky. She was in hairspray with me. She’s an actress, and in between jobs, she was working in one among his property brokers workplaces. She rang me, and mentioned you are gonna meet Anthony. He is ADHD, entrepreneur. I organized to satisfy him at Dolly’s bar on the backside of Selfridges, and I did not know who I used to be assembly, and I did not actually know what he appeared like,” she giggled.
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“I would had one image [of him], but it surely did not look precisely like his image, however I knew it was him right away. And he was coming down the escalator in Selfridges, and I used to be on the backside, and it was in the summertime – that is 5 years in the past now – and I had a pair of tailor-made black shorts on. I had my pins out.
“He was leaning over the escalator, and he was taking an image of me to ship to his mates, and he almost fell off the escalator making an attempt to take it,” she laughs.”However as quickly as he sat down I simply knew. I simply knew right away,” she gushes.
“We did lengthy distance for almost a 12 months earlier than he requested me to maneuver in. It simply labored. I do not know if his his entrepreneurial, inventive aspect however we’re each extraordinarily all the way down to earth. We’re each from working class backgrounds. Despite the fact that he is a profitable businessman, he is accomplished all of it himself, so he understands the graft,” she mentioned proudly.
This has led the star to a brand new chapter of her life, working a profitable property growth enterprise with him referred to as MartinRushworth. Whereas it could seem to be an enormous departure, Verity nonetheless acts, and that is simply one other string to her bow. Her first forays into property got here in her cleaning soap days. “I’ve at all times had a ardour for property she says. At 21, I purchased my first house in Leeds, after which I used to be flipping properties from fairly younger with my Emmerdale cash, so I’ve at all times been actually intrigued by it, and it simply all got here collectively.”
The couple at the moment are giving one fortunate individual the chance to win a £600,000 indifferent household house in Kent. The purpose is just not solely to supply somebody the possibility to win a mortgage-free house, but additionally to present again, because the income will help a youngsters’s coronary heart charity referred to as ECHO (Evelina Kids’s Coronary heart Organisation), which is near their hearts after Anthony’s daughter, now a cheerful and thriving seven-year-old, underwent life-saving surgical procedure at 18 months.
“The rationale we’re doing the raffle is that Anthony has constructed 5 four-bed indifferent homes, stunning homes, and he might simply put them by his property company and make a little bit of fee. It is a profitable enterprise. However he was so conscious of how troublesome it’s in the intervening time for folks to get on the property ladder these days
“He thought, what if we tried to raffle one, and if it labored, that might be like a brand new factor – then we’re really giving again. If we really make sufficient ticket gross sales this manner, we’re going to have the ability to give a share to charity as effectively. And if it really works, then it’ll be an entire new factor that he can provide as a part of his firm.
“It is £3 a ticket. We tried to make it as inexpensive as doable. If we promote the 300,000 tickets, then any individual will win the home, and we will donate an enormous share to the center charity,” she mentioned.
Tickets for the draw to win the £600,000 house can be found from Raffall. The draw closes on Could 29 2026.
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