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Privacy Notice Known for her roles in shows such as Brookside and Casualty, alongside being a Loose Women, Sunetra Sarker has cemented herself as a role model to audiences since rising to fame. However, the actress has previously admitted that accepting herself hasn’t always been easy, and she even used to ‘wish she was white’. Sunetra, who was born in Liverpool into an Indian family, told The Mirror back in 2019: “Looking back, I regret not embracing my heritage more as a young girl. I didn’t want to be Indian, I wanted to blend in with everyone else and be as white as possible.” She added: “But I wish I’d thought, ‘Wow, I’m the only brown girl in this classroom,’ because now everything I resented I see as a bonus.” Sunetra also reflected on feeling uncomfortable at work, as she recalled being cast as part of an Indian family for a curry advert. Suntra said: “The worst acting job I’ve ever had was for a cook-in curry sauce.
Sunetra, who hails from Liverpool, has a close bond with her mum and now embraces her heritage
Sunetra appeared on Strictly Come Dancing in 2014
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“The premise was an Indian family making a short-cut curry who are all Scousers. In make-up, the guy who was going to be playing the dad was a white guy and they were putting brown make-up on him. Surely they could have found an Indian man? There’s something really wrong with that.” In September 2014, Suentra split from her husband, Nick Corfield, after 10 years of marriage. She shares a 23 year old son, Noah, with Nick, who she wed in August 2003. Four years later, she tied the knot with partner Scott Carey, having two ceremonies: one traditionally British, the other Indian, in a day that celebrated laughter, friendship and living by your own set of rules. The pair have previously shared that they live apart in their ‘modern’ marriage. My husband and I have a modern relationship. We live separately, so it’s like teenagers going out with each other again,” Sunetra has explained. “Scott has a base in Kent and I have a home in Bristol. Half the week our children (Scott’s kids Sam, 17, and Poppy, 14, and her son Noah, 13) are with their other parents and half the week they’re with us, and we take it in turns when it comes to what house we’re staying at. She added: “It’s a lot of travel and juggling, but this means nobody is deprived of seeing anyone and that’s crucial. And it makes us miss each other too, which is lovely.”Story SavedYou can find this story in My Bookmarks.Or by navigating to the user icon in the top right.Follow OK! MagazineFacebookTwitterCommentMore OnBrooksideCasualtyLoose Women
