The late Zak Dingle actor, Steve Halliwell had previously opened up on his financial struggles.
The former Emmerdale star who tragically died last year, opened up about his struggle to afford even a bacon sandwich during the early days of his career. In his memoir If The Cap Fits, he revealed that growing up with his brother Clive was tough and that bacon butties were considered a “luxury” they couldn’t afford.
He recalled, “When I first took this walk, there was a small café in the woods called Nab’s Wife (a twist on the area originally known as Nab’s Wharfe), where you could enjoy a cup of tea and a Mars bar. They also served bacon butties, but we never had enough money for such ‘luxuries.’ I once convinced my mum to give Clive and me enough for a bacon butty each, but when we arrived at the café, it was boarded up and sadly never reopened.”
Before rising to fame on the soap, Steve took on various odd jobs and eventually left home in pursuit of “adventure and freedom,” but things didn’t unfold as he had hoped. The actor found himself homeless and sleeping rough, often facing periods of being “starving hungry and without money.”
He admitted: “The life of the beats may have been feeding my soul, but it certainly wasn’t feeding my belly,”. At one point, he was arrested and charged with “wandering abroad” under the Vagrancy Act. However, he confessed that receiving clean prison clothes and hot food made him feel positive about the whole experience.
Steve Halliwell, a familiar face on British TV with roles in Coronation Street and All Creatures Great and Small, became a household name as Zak Dingle in Emmerdale, appearing in over 2,400 episodes. Sadly, Steve passed away earlier this year, leaving behind a £63,000 fortune to his widow Valerie and daughter Charlotte, aged 40.
Emmerdale is preparing to give Steve—and his cherished character Zak—a heartfelt send-off as the Dingles unite to say goodbye to their family’s patriarch. Emmerdale producer Sophie Roper previously shared, “We recently lost Steve, so we will be honoring Zak’s passing in the coming months with a Dingle funeral.”
She added, “This will be very challenging for many people working on the show, as well as for the numerous viewers who have grown to love Zak over the years—but it will be a truly fitting tribute to a great character.” Steve was part of the show for 29 years, with his salary rumored to be around £200,000 per year.
However, probate documents reveal that the net value of his estate was just £63,030. At the time he wrote his will in November 2019, he was living at the St Helenas Caravan Park in Horsforth, near Leeds, West Yorkshire.
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