{"id":39366,"date":"2025-05-19T19:25:42","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T18:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tvguide.co.uk\/emmerdale-insider\/?p=39366"},"modified":"2025-05-23T09:37:31","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T08:37:31","slug":"emmerdale-bradley-riches-life-away-from-soap-non-verbal-until-10-netflix-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tvguide.co.uk\/emmerdale-insider\/cast\/emmerdale-bradley-riches-life-away-from-soap-non-verbal-until-10-netflix-role\/","title":{"rendered":" Inside actor Bradley Riches’ life away from Emmerdale: From being non-verbal until age 10 to huge Netflix and reality TV roles"},"content":{"rendered":"

Emmerdale has a new addition, and actor Bradley Riches<\/a> may be quite familiar to a lot of people.<\/p>

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The 23-year-old actor has already had such an impressive career for such a young age. But now, the Netflix star has joined the ITV soap as a long-lost Barton brother.<\/p>\n

Lewis Barton<\/a> is the son of Emma Barton, who was adopted when he was little. He finally made the decision to reach out to his family, and came face-to-face with his brother, Ross.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

But who is Bradley Riches away from Emmerdale? From being non-verbal until the age of 10 to landing a huge Netflix gig, lets have a look.<\/p>

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Bradley is a huge advocate for autism (Credit: ITV)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Non-verbal until age 10<\/h2>\n

Bradley Riches was born on December 11 2001. But his early years were marked by severe communication struggles, causing him to be non-verbal until 10-years-old.<\/p>

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