Emmerdale star warns huge shock coming fans won't expect in 'thriller-style' episodes
Emmerdale's Marlon Dingle actor Mark Charnock has teased some big shocks ahead in a special standalone episode, but also in the 'thriller-style' months ahead on the ITV soap
There's a massive Emmerdale twist on the way that will "stagger" viewers, according to one star.
With a huge standalone episode airing next week, one of three planned, Marlon Dingle actor Marlon Charnock told The Mirror that fans can expect a shock. He also teased it wouldn't end there, and that the months ahead, including the start of 2026, would feature "thriller-like" scenes.
Scenes next week see Marlon trying to get his teenage daughter April Windsor to open up to him, with him sensing something isn't right. Of course he has no idea of the trouble she is in at the hands of villains Ray and Celia, including debts, drug deals and Ray sickeningly trying to get teenager April to sleep with his clients.
It's left unknown whether April will reveal all to her father, but actor Mark has teased big moments ahead. Mark said: "There’s a twist in the episode that will stagger the audience.
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On the big episode and the twist in store, Mark went on: "Things are going to get considerably worse before they get better and in this special episode, something happens that when i read it, it shocked me so much that I thought ‘Oh god, I wish I’d known about it before I read it’ because it really threw me, it’s just a great twist of drama.
"There’s so much good stuff and the great thing about this story is it impacts so many different people. Tony Audenshaw has been brilliant in it as well, as Bob, he has been superb, who’s like a further circle away from the reality of it. It’s a storyline that keeps on giving - it’s dark but in the best dramatic way that a story can be dark."
Mark also thinks Marlon would stop at nothing to protect his daughter. He shared: "I think he could do something extraordinarily reckless, I truly believe that character would sacrifice himself for his child. I think he could do something irrational that could cause everlasting damage. He’d do absolutely anything."
On what's ahead, he went on: "There’s some amazing stuff coming up. It’s really hard to answer those questions, I always want to say ‘And guess what? It’s this!’ but you can’t, can you? As well as this storyline, there’s something coming further down the line that is…
"I’m reading blocks like it’s a Stephen King novel. Joe Absolom said the same, it’s like ‘Bloomin eck!’ Charlotte Bellamy, who plays Laurel, said ‘Have you read this block? It’s unbelievable.’ It’s really exciting. I’ve got to say, some of the stories, not just this one, some of the stuff that is peaking up into into November, December, January, it’s like it’s a thriller, it’s amazing."
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