Emmerdale actor Joe-Warren Plant has been spotted pulling pints in his local pub – though fans of Joe-Warren and his character, Jacob Gallagher, can breathe easy as it doesn’t mean he will be leaving the Yorkshire soap anytime soon.
In fact, he’s helping out friends and likely giving his Emmerdale earnings an extra boost at the same time.
Customers of the pub in Blackpool recognised Joe-Warren as he worked behind the bar of his local. One visitor to the bar commented: “Joe-Warren is a friendly lad – he only joined recently so he’s just getting started. It’s not the case at all that he has left Emmerdale, he’s still very much on set. But he knows via friends the owner of the bar and offered to help out.”
While no one knows Joe-Warren’s Emmerdale salary, the actor – who joined the series when he was just eight years old – did treat himself to a 1967 Ford Mustang V8 Coupe when he was 16.
As well as appearing in the soap, Joe-Warren has acted in the US action movie Broken Hearts and he was also a contestant in the 2021 series of Dancing on Ice. At the time, aged 18, Joe-Warren was the youngest competitor on the show and was partnered with Vanessa Bauer. Sadly, the couple had to leave the show early as both tested positive for Covid-19.
Since he joined Emmerdale, Joe-Warren has been at the heart of some of the soap’s most gripping storylines. His character Jacob and mum Alicia moved to the village in 2010, where he spent much of his time with Alicia’s sister Leyla and her boyfriend David Metcalfe. What Jacob didn’t know was that Leyla was his biological mother and the result of her affair with Justin Gallagher, and he didn’t discover this until three years later.
Jacob was also bullied, and had to cope with the knowledge that his mother had been sexually assaulted by Lachlan White. Eventually mum and son left the Dales for the sunnier climes of Portugal, but Jacob returned the following year having failed to settle abroad.
Since then, Jacob has been the centre of a grooming storyline with his teacher Maya that ended with her going to prison.
More recently, Jacob was heartbroken when his older girlfriend Victoria ended their relationship. She broke things off after she discovered Jacob had turned down the opportunity to study in Berlin for a month to stay with her.
