So, tonight has been the night that all Emmerdale fans (including us) have been waiting for, so what happened in the live anniversary episode?

Fans of the hit ITV1 soap will know how we left the village with both Katie (Sammy Winward)and Declan (Jason Merelles) and Chas (Lucy Pargeter) and Dan (Liam Fox) tying the knot in yesterday’s instalment. However, trouble was lurking behind the pews in the forms of Carl King (Tom Lister) and Megan Macey (Gaynor Faye).
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As we predicted a couple of weeks ago, Emmerdale bad lad Carl King did indeed meet a sticky wicket end in tonight’s stunning live episode, and his death was among the final acts in what was a truly outstanding piece of television.

Celebrating forty years of the soap, which began life as Emmerdale Farm, tonight’s hour-long live broadcast promised “all of life” in its two weddings, two births and a death, and my goodness, it delivered, and then some.

Nobody put a foot wrong, and all the main players will surely be needing the services of a carpenter to build them a whole rack of shelves on which to place their awards…

Lucy Pargeter as Chas Dingle was simply breathtakingly good, as was Tom Lister, who of course played Carl. How I hate to be using the past tense for him now! Read more & comment »

With all of the nation’s eyes on him tonight, Emmerdale’s Liam Fox has admitted it was hard to keep the secrets of the Live Episode, from his ten-year-old son!

Fans of the hit ITV soap will know how tonight is a very special night in the village of Emmerdale, as the cast and crew celebrate 40 glorious years in the world of the Great British Soap, by entertaining us all with an hour long live episode to mark the occasion!
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With all the buzz and excitement today surrounding Emmerdale and its epic hour long live episode tonight to mark its 40th anniversary, we thought we would take a moment to recap over some of the amazing storylines the classic ITV soap has tackled in order to have kept it going up until this momentous occasion!

Emmerdale was first broadcast on 16 October 1972, as Emmerdale Farm as it was back then.
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Last night saw the first instalment of this week’s Emmerdale 40th anniversary celebrations, and what an episode it was.

Backed into a corner, Chas (Lucy Pargeter) found herself with two options, run off with Carl leaving everyone shocked, but still blissfully unaware that she had been sleeping with her nieces fella all year, or marry Dan quickly and run away leaving Cameron (Dominic Power) to deal with the huge can of worms that a furious Carl (Tom Lister) is bound to open.
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Fans of Emmerdale will of course know that the soap is celebrating its 40th anniversary in a week of special episodes that being on October 15th…

And among those celebratory episodes is the hour-long live broadcast, which is making history for being the first of its ilk to air in its entirety on location at the show’s studios in Yorkshire.

During that landmark hour, we’ll be witness to the birth of two babies, a double wedding and of course, the murder of a “well loved” and “major” character, and here at Unreality Primetime, we have a theory as to who is going to breathe his/her last during that live episode…

So if you don’t want to read who we think is going to shuffle off the mortal coil, go no further! If you do want to know, click on ‘Read more…’ Read more & comment »

As fans of Emmerdale will know, Carl King (Tom Lister) is blackmailing his former fiancé Chas Dingle (Lucy Pargeter) and her lover, Cameron Murray (Dominic Power).

Carl has demanded £30,000 to buy his silence over Chas and Cameron’s affair – since Cameron’s girlfriend is Debbie Dingle, who is Chas’s niece, so of course they so don’t want her to find out – but so far, the frantic lovers have only been able to give him £15,000.

However, in a twist to the storyline as the soap nears its 40th anniversary, Carl is set to tell Chas that he’s still in love with her, and tells her that the blackmail will be over if she goes back to him.

But of course, Chas is supposed to be marrying her current fiancé Dan Spencer (Liam Fox) later this month… Read more & comment »

Emmerdale resident Chas Dingle is, at present, the living embodiment of Sir Walter Scott’s line ‘Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practise to deceive!’

Because she is of course set to marry Dan Spencer (Liam Fox) even though she’s still in love with Cameron Murray (Dominic Power) and is currently being blackmailed by former fiancé Carl King to the tune of £30,000.

However, while speaking to Inside Soap magazine about the plotline, Lucy Pargeter, who plays pub landlady Chas, has revealed that things are to get yet more complex as Carl (Tom Lister) tells Chas that he’s actually still in love with her!

As fans will recall, Carl and Chas were supposed to get married on Christmas Day in 2010, however, for weeks before the big day, Chas had been plotting to ditch Carl at the altar after she found out he’d been sleeping with Eve Jensen… Read more & comment »

Emmerdale actress, Lucy Pargeter, has revealed that she nearly married her fiancé in Dubai last month in a last minute wedding, a bit like her alter-ego Chas Dingle is about to in the hit ITV soap, Emmerdale.

Unlike Chas Dingle, who Lucy plays in the award-winning soap, Lucy, has been engaged to her football coach fiancée, Rudi Coleano for eight years, and has a 7-year-old daughter Lola with him, whereas Chas has been seeing her fiancée, Dan Spencer (Liam Fox) for all of five minutes.
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As fans of Emmerdale will of course know, Laurel Thomas (Charlotte Bellamy) and Marlon Dingle have rekindled their love for each other now that Laurel’s separated from shamed vicar, Ashley (John Middleton).

However, since being forced to go public with their relationship – after Paddy (Dominic Brunt) angrily announced it to the packed pub – things haven’t been going smoothly for the couple, particularly with Laurel’s step-daughter Gabby, who hasn’t taken kindly to her mother’s new boyfriend.

But nonetheless, Mark Charnock, who plays Marlon, has revealed that even with the drama over Rhona (Zoe Henry) having taken baby Leo to New Zealand, and all the angst with Gabby, Marlon has never been happier than he is with Laurel… Read more & comment »

For any fans of Emmerdale who thought that Carl King may actually be showing the signs of regret over his treatment of Chas Dingle following his sudden interest in her personal life, THINK AGAIN.

Fans of the show will know how Carl (Tom Lister) has spent the best part of the month trying to get his head around the new relationship between his ex, Chas (Lucy Pargeter) and her fiancée Dan Spencer (Liam Fox), trying his hardest to put them off each other, in what appeared to be a sever attack of the green eyed monster.
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As fans of Emmerdale may know, when the show airs its live episode in October, we’re to see the double wedding of Katie Sugden and Declan Macey as well as Chas Dingle and Dan Spencer’s nuptials…

But of course, for Chas Dingle, there’s the spectre of Carl King’s (Tom Lister) threat to expose her affair with Cameron Murray (Dominic Power) hanging over her veil, so for her, the day may not have the fairytale quality it’ll have for fellow bride-to-be, Katie!

And as we’ve been reporting this week, the cast of the show have been talking to ITV about their roles in the live hour-long broadcast, and the latest of those is Lucy Pargeter and Liam Fox, who of course play Chas and Dan.

Beginning with Lucy, here’s what she had to say…

Tell us about Chas’ state of mind in the lead up to the 40th birthday week?

Chas is in a state of total confusion and fear. She’s not in a great place at all but she’s completely determined to marry Dan… Read more & comment »

As fans of Emmerdale will probably know, in forthcoming episodes, Carl King is set to discover that his former fiancé Chas Dingle had an affair with Cameron Murray, and Carl being Carl, he’s going to use that knowledge to his own advantage…

We’ll see him demanding that Chas (Lucy Pargeter) repay him the £30,000 she took from him before ditching him at the altar in 2010 after she announced that she knew all about his affair with Eve Jensen (Suzanne Shaw).

Carl will tell Chas and Cameron (Dominic Power) that if he doesn’t get his money, both of their partners – that’s Dan Spencer (Liam Fox) and Debbie Dingle (Charley Webb) – will hear about their affair.

And this weekend, while speaking to the PA about his character, devout Christian Tom Lister has revealed that he loves it when Carl’s being devious, cunning and downright mean! Read more & comment »

Emmerdale star Lucy Pargeter, who of course plays bride-to-be Chas Dingle, has revealed that she’s having “sleepless nights” ahead of the soap’s landmark 40th anniversary live episode.

And of course, as we reported this week, Lucy will be playing a large role in the hour-long live special as we see her character tie the knot with Dan Spencer (Liam Fox) in what is surely – as was promised by the show’s producer Stuart Blackburn earlier this year – one of the soap’s most unlikely romances ever.

Speaking to TV Biz about the responsibility of being expected to deliver a flawless performance while the show broadcasts live, Lucy said, “I’ve had anxiety dreams about not knowing my lines.

“Everybody is waiting for us to go wrong… Read more & comment »

Could there be a happy future for new Emmerdale lovers, Dan Spencer and Chas Dingle?  Lucy Pargeter thinks so!

Pargeter, who plays unlucky-in-love Chas in the hit ITV soap, has claimed that her character really can see a future in the loveable (if not slightly loser-like) Dan Spencer.
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