ZONE 'SHE FLIES OFF THE HANDLE'

Actress Emma Atkins reveals how a shocking phone call in Emmerdale sends her character Charity down a dark path

- STEVEN MURPHY

Emmerdale’s Charity Dingle receives a phone call this week that totally knocks her for six. As she takes in the news, she’s soon hitting the vodka – as well as hitting the road after nicking her newfound cousin Caleb Dingle’s car, taking Cain (Jeff Hordley) along for the ride.

But what’s upset Charity so much? Her current living situation is certainly explosive, with Charity unaware that her fiancé Mack (Lawrence Robb) has got their lodger Chloe (Jessie Elland) pregnant. However, Charity’s colourful past could equally also throw up a surprise or two.

Here, actress Emma Atkins, who plays Charity, talks secrets, lies and wedding dramas…

Hi, Emma! We see Charity receive this phone call and it seems to really affect her…

She’s going through a pretty average day when it happens. There’s a phone call out of the blue and the audience at this point don’t know who it’s from – but what she hears shocks her and sends her flying off the handle. 

Do people realise she’s had this shocking news?

Mackenzie doesn’t know that there is anything wrong and they have a bit of a domestic. He says something to wind her up and she just says she’s going out. She’s quite volatile in her reaction and quite reckless in the next thing that she does…

Yes, she turns to the Charity of old and starts misbehaving …