\n Tricia Penrose, who played barmaid Gina Ward in Heartbeat’s Aidensfield Arms for 18 years, has bought The Goathland Hotel \u2013 the real-life setting used in ITV’s long-running show.\n<\/p>\n
\n The news marks a new chapter for the York stone pub in the pretty North York Moors village of the same name where so many village goings-on and rural crimes were mulled over.\n<\/p>\n
\n Flashback: The Aidensfield Arms, aka The Goathland Hotel. (Image: The Press)\n<\/p>\n
\n The Goathland Hotel is popular worldwide for its role as the Aidensfield Arms in the TV series which ran from 1992 to 2010.\n<\/p>\n
\n Announcing the news on Instagram, Tricia Penrose, whose character Gina Ward married PC Bellamy in the TV series, said: \u201cI have some exciting news to announce.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cI am now the proud owner along with 2 local businessmen of The Goathland Hotel well known as The Aidensfield Arms where I played Gina Ward for 18 years.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cGina\u2019s going home!! Woohoo!! I will be setting up a YouTube channel to let you know what events will be taking place etc etc.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cI will be over there in my pub next Tuesday 28th from about 11.00. It\u2019s very exciting xxxx.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n The Aidensfield Arms from Heartbeat. (Image: Submitted)\n<\/p>\n
\n The recognisable pub in Goathland, on the North York Moors, has long been a draw for Heartbeat fans and tourists. It previously ran under the same family ownership for more than 41 years before being sold to Penrose and her business partners.\n<\/p>\n
\n Heartbeat actress Tricia Penrose buys The Goathland Hotel. (Image: The Press)\n<\/p>\n
\n Most of the internal scenes in the pub were filmed there and many of the features seen in Heartbeat can still be seen today. As a result of its fame, The Goathland Hotel welcomes thousands of visitors throughout the year from fans of Heartbeat from across the globe.\n<\/p>\n
\n Heartbeat, set in the fictional village of Aidensfield and filmed across North Yorkshire, became one of ITV\u2019s most popular dramas. The Aidensfield Arm, as depicted in the show, was a central hub for village life, with Penrose\u2019s character Gina Ward a firm fan favourite.\n<\/p>\n
\n The bar in the pub from Heartbeat. (Image: Submitted)\n<\/p>\n
\n The actress, now 56, appeared in the series from 1993 until its final episode in 2010, becoming one of its longest-serving cast members.\n<\/p>\n
\n Since leaving the show, she has worked as a radio presenter on Radio Wirral and appeared on Celebrity Big Brother in 2013. She also released two music singles in the early 2000s.\n<\/p>\n
\n The purchase caps a notable year for the actress, who married her second husband, Chris Hargreaves, in May.\n<\/p>\n
\n Her return to the pub marks a full-circle moment for fans of the show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tricia Penrose, who played barmaid Gina Ward in Heartbeat’s Aidensfield Arms for 18 years, has bought The Goathland…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":710401,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-710400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=710400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/710401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=710400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=710400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=710400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}