Emmerdale actor Maxwell Caulfield has admitted that he is often moved to tears by his storylines on the show.
Caulfield said that he often draws on sad experiences in his own life to help him play out the part.
Speaking to the Sunday Mirror, Caulfield explained: “This show makes me [cry] bi-weekly. Mark is being put through the mangle. I get genuinely sad sometimes.
On Monday, Natasha tells Mark that they need to watch Cain as she reckons he won’t back down easily. Her prediction comes true in the village when Maisie tells Cain that his flirting won’t go “unrewarded”.
Back at Home Farm, Natasha’s interrupted from her preparations by a knock at the door – it’s Faye. After a decidedly awkward conversation about job vacancies, Faye’s horrified to discover what Natasha’s planning and preparing for. Mark’s stunned when he’s told about the unexpected visit from Faye and angrily rips up Faye’s CV in front of a puzzled Natasha. Can Mark hide the real reason behind his anger? Read more & comment »
Emmerdale actor Maxwell Caulfield has revealed that he is growing to love the Yorkshire countryside and being based in Leeds.
Speaking to the Yorkshire Evening Post, Caulfield revealed: “I just love the countryside. The spring in Yorkshire has been beautiful. All the lambs and the baby rabbits and the birds.
“My wife and I have become fascinated with the red kites that circle around Harewood. They’re beautiful creatures.
Andy Sugden is in for a shock this summer when he heads to his former home at Butler’s Farm, only to find it occupied by a new dynasty in the shape of the lively and loveable Barton family.
Striking yet down-to-earth couple John and Moira Barton arrive in the village with their three teenage children Hannah, Holly and Adam in July, having upsized their successful farm to take over Butler’s.
The BSA took place this Saturday and we have news about who won what in the soaps that we cover here on Primetime, but as coverage of the show isn’t actually being aired until Wednesday, if you don’t want to know who got what award, don’t read on after the ‘Read more and comment’ link…
And it turned out that Phil Schofield hosted she show alone after Fern Britton pulled out citing a “family commitment” as the reason, but as she announced this just two days after her resignation from This Morning was publicised, it added fuel to the fire that there’s a rift between the pair, even though they’ve both denied it repeatedly.
However, on the 27th March, The Sun ran an article regarding Fern dropping both This Morning and the BSA… here’s part of their article.
“Fern is thought to have been on about £20,000 for hosting the show — with Phillip, 46, on TWICE as much.
Insiders said ‘no one was surprised’ at her pull-out.
One said: ‘Would you want to stand next to someone when they’re getting paid twice as much?’
But Fern insisted she had made the decision because of a prior family engagement.”
So, with the thick plottening on that one, the awards went ahead anyway, and here’s who won what from the soaps… remember, don’t read on if you don’t want to know! Read more & comment »
On Monday, Andy and Victoria are struggling to cope at the farm following Maisie’s departure. Realising that Victoria’s at the end of her tether, Andy suggests she takes Sarah to the swings while he tidies up. However, Victoria loses Sarah before Andy’s CAFCASS visit when she wanders out of the shop.
Aaron finds Sarah and decides to take her to Debbie’s while the CAFCASS representative is inspecting Tug Ghyll. Cain intercepts Aaron at the door and makes a show of his concern in front of the CAFCASS officer. When she makes an inspection at Butler’s later on, Andy’s uncomfortable in answering difficult questions about Sarah’s disappearance. The social worker’s keen to play the incident down but she leaves Andy with a bitter taste in his mouth. Has Andy made a catastrophic impression? Read more & comment »
On Monday, Andy demands that Victoria stop trying to contact Daz. She tries to put up a fight but Andy stops any argument by telling her that Jack would be ashamed of her. In an effort to cover up the scandal before Diane returns, Andy asks Scarlett to keep quiet and she reluctantly agrees. Aaron tries to apologise to Victoria for telling Andy about her and Daz but she blames him for Daz’s departure and tells him to get lost. Victoria is at an all time low, but how will she recover?
Meanwhile, Debbie hears that there’s been a ‘disturbance’ at Butlers and grows concerned that Andy’s returned to his violent ways. After seeing Maisie looking after Sarah, Debbie confides in Natasha that she’s being refused access to her daughter so Natasha offers financial assistance to fund a solicitor by way of saying sorry for using her at the shoot. Debbie’s thankful for the option but says she want to sort things out on her own. Instead, Natasha asks Maisie to persuade Andy to allow access but Maisie suspects her mother of wanting to cause trouble and tells her to back off… Read more & comment »
Jeff Hordely has admitted that he always knew he would return to Emmerdale one day.
Jeff plays Cain Dingle on the ITV1 soap and left the show two and a half years ago.
Jeff told MSN: “I knew that one day, I seriously did in my bones, I knew that there would be a day when I would be back. I just didn’t know when that would be.”
He continued: “When I left, I left that door open, and I left that door open for a reason.
Teenage actor Luke Tittensor has been sacked from Emmerdale after pleading guilty to a GBH charge.
The 19-year-old, who plays Daz Eden in the ITV soap opera admitted to fracturing the jaw of another teenager in Rochdale.
A spokesperson from the soap told The Sun: “As Luke has pleaded guilty to the serious charge of GBH and we cannot condone criminal behaviour, we have met with Luke and his agent to explain that his contract with Emmerdale will be terminated.
“Luke regrets his behaviour and understands this situation.”
Look who’s back!!
On Monday, Daz returns from his weekend away and tells Jake about the situation he is in with Victoria and Jake questions what Daz is going to do but as Jake tries to make a joke of the situation, he’s stunned when Daz turns round and is in tears. Daz is confused by his feelings but on seeing Victoria, he takes her on a car journey.
As the car hurtles round the country roads, Victoria begs Daz to slow down but he says they’re as good as dead anyway after what they’ve done. Victoria’s petrified when Daz admits his fears that he’ll be viewed as a paedophile and she blurts out that the truth that there is no baby. The car screeches to a halt and Victoria says she only wanted Daz to love her. Daz is furious and hurls Victoria out of the car before driving away without her. Has Victoria lost Daz’s trust for good? Read more & comment »
Emmerdale’s newest cast member, Kitty McGeever has revealed that her character on the ITV show won’t be a victim and she hopes she will inspire blind fans of the show.
She told The Mirror: “Lizzie is a loveable rogue - people can’t help but like her and she couldn’t be less of a victim, which is what we wanted.
“I hope it will be inspirational to sighted people who’ll say that she really doesn’t expect to be treated any differently.”
Australian actress Anne Charleston has revealed that she will be leaving Emmerdale later this year.
Anne stars in the ITV soap as Lily Butterfield but will wrap up all her filming for the show within the next fortnight.
Speaking to Inside Soap about her decision to leave, she said: “I’ve thoroughly enjoyed playing Lily for the last couple of years, but have agreed with the producers that the time is right for me to move on.”
She added: “I have a couple of new projects in the pipeline which I’m looking forward to enormously.”
With this week’s revelation that Ronnie’s finally going to find out she’s Danielle’s mum, we thought we’d take a look at some of the mums from hell who’ve featured in our soaps… and there are a lot of contenders!
Let’s start with EastEnders and one of the very worst mums – well, step-mum anyway – has to be evil Stella who tormented poor little Ben by relentlessly bullying him, hurting him and cruelly manipulating him until, on their wedding day, Ben’s dad Phil finally found out what she’d been doing and she ended up squished like a bug on the roof of a car after jumping off the roof of a building. And good riddance to her I say!
And let’s not forget Louise Raymond, who, having abandoned her kids Tiffany and Simon in their teens, Louise turned up in the Square in 1998 and it seemed she wanted to make amends… right up until she slept with her daughter’s husband Grant! Read more & comment »
We’re a nation of pet lovers us Brits aren’t we? We love watching shows about animals but we also seem to incorporate pets into all our soaps too.
So we wondered who – or probably more appropriately, what – has been your favourite soap pet of all time out of the three major soaps?
Maybe it’s the ever present ginger cat pictured above who stalks the rooftops of Weatherfield and walks along the tops of the walls in the opening titles? Incidentally, I found a bit of trivia about this cat; when the opening titles were re-filmed in the seventies, no one initially noticed the cat that wandered across a wall. Now, every time the titles are re-filmed, a cat is deliberately used!
In fact, they’re quite superstitious about cats over on the Street set and there’s always a cat somewhere, fake or real. For example, high up on a shelf in the Rovers is apparently a soft toy cat!
Or maybe your all-time fave was Eastenders’ Wellard? Poor deceased Wellard… or possibly Emmerdale’s Tootsie, Edna’s little dog that looks more like a slipper than a dog if you ask me!
Let’s take a look at some of the contenders… Read more & comment »
