Holly Barton (Sophie Powles)

[Telly Watcher]

Radio Times (19-25 March 2016) posts that Emmerdale's new character Dean is played by actor Craig Vye.

Dean plays a debt collector for Holly and appears in the Friday 7pm episode of Emmerdale on 25 March 2016.

Craig Vye previously played Ethan Scott in Hollyoaks & Geoff in Aquila.


© Lime Pictures
Ethan Scott (Craig Vye) from Hollyoaks, 2011
http://www.digitalspy.com/soaps/holl...resa-for-help/

Craig Vye, Twitter
https://twitter.com/craigvye/with_replies

Craig Vye, wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_Vye

Craig Vye, Actor, IMDb
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0904529/

Craig Vye plays Geoff in Childrens' TV series Aquila, 1997-1998, wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquila_%28TV_series%29

[tammyy2j]

I hope she isn't staying around for long

Was she an ex of Aaron too before he finally admitted he was gay?

[binky321]

Yes they were a couple for about 2 months or so, Aaron was fighting his sexuality at the time after he made a pass at Adam following a minor car crash he told Adam & everyone Adam told he was mistaken then started dating Holly to prove he wasn't gay but she soon dumped him realising something wasn't right with Aaron when she twigged he wasn't that into her & prefered hanging with Adam to her (then weeks later he met Jackson), but he and Holly remained on friendly terms.

[sarah c]

Radio Times (19-25 March 2016) posts that Emmerdale's new character Dean is played by actor Craig Vye.

Dean plays a debt collector for Holly and appears in the Friday 7pm episode of Emmerdale on 25 March 2016.

Craig Vye previously played Ethan Scott in Hollyoaks & Geoff in Aquila.


© Lime Pictures
Ethan Scott (Craig Vye) from Hollyoaks, 2011
http://www.digitalspy.com/soaps/holl...resa-for-help/


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is he 12 yrs old?

[sarah c]

Yes they were a couple for about 2 months or so, Aaron was fighting his sexuality at the time after he made a pass at Adam following a minor car crash he told Adam & everyone Adam told he was mistaken then started dating Holly to prove he wasn't gay but she soon dumped him realising something wasn't right with Aaron when she twigged he wasn't that into her & prefered hanging with Adam to her (then weeks later he met Jackson), but he and Holly remained on friendly terms.

I thought Aaron 'lost his cherry' to Victoria?

[lizann]

I thought Aaron 'lost his cherry' to Victoria?

she was before holly for aaron

[Telly Watcher]

We knew that Holly Barton wasn’t just back in Emmerdale for a family visit and, in a dramatic week for the newly returned youngster, we are about to see just how deep in trouble she really is.

With her former boyfriend Dean pressuring her for cash that she owes him, Holly allies herself to Charity Dingle on the basis that she will split Cain from Moira in exchange for her help.

But when everything goes wrong, it’s down to Cain to step in with a risky plan that involves bundling Holly into a van and setting off to confront Dean.

But as things spiral out of control, Holly could be at serious risk. Cain is the only one who can protect her and it wouldn’t be the first time that he saved her skin. Just imagine the trouble if his actions led to Holly developing a crush…

Hmmmm. With so much going on for Holly, we thought it best to get answers from the source closest to the complex character – actress Sophie Powles.

Here she talks us through the huge dramas ahead for her alter ego…

Why has Holly returned?

She’s been in London, done quite well, was offered a really good job there, working in fashion and textiles and all sorts of different things. She’s had a great time, she’s travelled, and then potentially things have started to go a bit wrong, we don’t really know what’s happened, but she’s ended up coming home. We all know Holly, she’s very good at manipulating a situation and getting what she wants.

Cain has got suspicions about her motives of why she’s back, so instantly there’s this thing with Holly and Cain, they clash heads. Holly doesn’t like that Cain is in her dad’s house, they weren’t together when she left, and she’s come back and they’re together. Instantly Holly is a bit annoyed with him, and it doesn’t take a lot to irritate her really. So she’s back, and then everything seems to be going okay, but then we see Holly getting a phone call from somebody, basically demanding money so she and Charity form this plan…

What is the plan?

Obviously Charity needs to find money for the pub, and Holly needs to find money to pay whoever she needs to pay. They form a plan to make the pub look like it’s been robbed, so Charity sets the fire alarm off and Holly sneaks down to the cellar where she’s got the code from Charity to go into the safe, take the money. The idea is she takes two grand she needs, and she gives the rest to Charity to do with what she wishes. But as she’s going down there, Moira is waiting there for her and catches her in the act…

So then we’re left with the classic situation of Holly in a real mess and then Cain says he’s got a plan. That ends up with Cain throwing Holly into the back of a van and driving her off [to meet Dean, the ex boyfriend she owes money to] It’s left with a full cowboys stand off between Cain and Dean.

What’s the plan with Cain?

Cain has basically got a van full of stolen goods, and instead of two grand he wants to do a swap with the van load. He tells Dean to leave Holly alone basically. It all gets very heated and messy. [What happens next leaves her] mortified, she’s trying to get out of this situation, but she’s now a woman having to be looked after by her mum again and this man she doesn’t even like, but now he’s suddenly looking after her. Holly is feeling really embarrassed by the whole situation, and almost ashamed.

She’s not a bad person or a bitch or mean or nasty, she’s just a girl who’s got this drug addiction that keeps clawing her back in. She keeps finding herself in these awful situations that she doesn’t know how to get herself out of.

In the end Holly has [Cain] over a barrel and manipulates him, she’s very good at that. She makes him realise that she’s going to tell Moira what happened, and it’s a case of who will she trust, me or you? Do you think your marriage is strong enough? She knows how much her mum loves her.

Have you had a lot of response to Holly’s drug addiction?

I was really fortunate when I got given the storyline, Gavin Blyth the producer at the time was extremely supportive, and he wanted to do it properly. So I had a drugs counsellor, I went to a drugs group charity called Disc, working with a heroin addict. Her and I had a lot of communication, and she was always really pleased with how I portrayed it. All the team at Disc were always so supportive and pleased at how genuine and real it was, how it was tastefully done and accurate to how it would be.

The preconceived ideas we have of drug addicts is so wrong, they’re just these poor people, and until we’ve been in a situation that is that awful or had something in our lives that hurt us that badly that we need to do something to escape from it, or experience extreme poverty or neglect or abuse. We just don’t know, and it made me take a step back and be less judgemental, actually just seeing they’re people who made a bad choice, and until I’ve been in a situation where that is the only choice I’ve got then I can’t judge.

I’ll never be able to understand fully without doing that stuff myself, and I’m not that much of a method actor! It’s a really interesting thing, and I have met people in the street who were addicts and they’ve come to me and said, ‘You know I was an addict, and I was the same as Holly, just a normal girl from a normal family, I did it as a release and it just escalated.’ Another woman, me and Natalie (J Robb) were out together and she said to us that she would never have known her daughter was drug using until she saw Holly’s storyline and the slow progression of it. It made her suspicious of the way her daughter was acting, and she looked in her bedroom and found drugs in her drawer. Little things, I think it has affected people and raised awareness, which is only a good thing.

Would you like to see Holly go as far as to try it on with Cain?

It’s a bit weird because Jeff [Hordley] is one of my best mates in real life, I know it doesn’t really matter, but it’s a bit awkward. I don’t think I would, you know. I think working with Jeff now, we’ve established this really nice relationship between Holly and Cain, and he’s like this step-in father figure for her, their whole energy between them is fun and a really nice dynamic. Realistically it wouldn’t really work because he is in love with her mother, and they are genuinely in love. It would be fun obviously for Holly to have a bit of an affair, but I think ultimately she would just be blurring the lines between a father figure that she hasn’t had for so long and someone actually looking after her, and a crush. She’s just blurring the lines between these new feelings she’s got, and feelings she hasn’t felt for a long time.

There’s a scene where Cain shows Holly how to punch and she really hits him! What was that like to film?

It was so exciting. I rung my dad that night and I said, ‘Guess what I did at work today? I punched Cain Dingle in the face!’. I didn’t actually punch him, there was fake blood which made it more exciting. I took a picture of it and sent it to my mum!

What made you want to return?

It wasn’t ultimately my choice, I was travelling and had been travelling for seven months, and I said to my boyfriend that I couldn’t wait to get back to England to audition, and imagine if I got something like Emmerdale again, the awesome environment, the team, the storylines and passion that’s here. And then the next day I got an email from my agent saying Emmerdale would like you back. I was like “oh my God, thank you!” It’s so weird. I got back at the end of January and I started at the beginning of February, so it was all perfect timing. Actually it felt really, really good.

Are you ready to be thrust back into the spotlight?

Acting has never been about that for me, I understand that that comes with it when you put yourself out there and putting yourself under the spotlight. Acting has always been my passion, and performance has always been something I’ve done and loved since I was a little girl, I’ve always chased that. The other stuff is just something that comes with it, it’s not something I look forward to, but it’s something I understand is necessary and part of the whole process. Just to be performing and acting again is the best, and that’s what I focus on and everything else that happens I’ll deal with that as best as I can.

How long would you like to be in the show for this time?

I don’t know, I don’t think you could ever say that. I don’t want to jinx anything, but at the moment I’m loving being here, and I’m having the best time. I feel very grateful and very lucky, and very happy.

By Duncan Lindsay for Metro.co.uk
http://metro.co.uk/2016/03/22/holly-...all-2-5764485/

Sophie Powles also gave an interview to Duncan Lindsay for Metro.co.uk about her foreign travels since being away from Emmerdale since 2012.

Read the interview at:
http://metro.co.uk/2016/03/22/emmerd...man-2-5764465/

[Perdita]

Emmerdale actress Natalie J Robb says her alter ego is left “disgusted” when she finds out what her daughter Holly has been getting up to.
Moira Dingle’s delight at having her daughter home soon gives way to frustration when she discovers not only that Holly fell off the wagon and started taking drugs again, but she’s in serious debt with her former dealer, Dean.
Holly teams up with Charity Dingle in a bid to get her hands on the cash, and then plots to double cross her by stealing from the Woolpack. However, Charity’s no fool and soon realises what she’s up to, inviting Moira to catch her thieving daughter in the act, so Moira lays in wait in the cellar.
Natalie explained: “Charity sets her up so Moira’s already in the cellar waiting for her to see if she steals. She catches her in the act. She’s absolutely disgusted by it, when it comes to stealing that’s the slippery slope that the drug addiction led her to, and it’s still part of her. It’s awful for any mother to witness. She wants to give her the benefit of the doubt but she’s never going to trust her because she’s crossed so many lines, she would be an absolute mug if she didn’t question her.”
She added: “Moira is really happy to have Holly back in the village, she’s missed her terribly and worried like every mother does. It’s quite soon that Moira realises Holly’s been taking drugs again, she can only pull the wool over her eyes for so long. It’s heartbreaking for Moira because all she wants is the best for her, but she’s not surprised, there was always a chance she would go back.”
Holly apologises to her mum and insists she wants Dean out of her life so Moira forms a plan but soon realises she’s out of her depth and calls in the big guns!
Natalie explained: “She tries to do it the right way but he wants more and after that it’s dealt with properly by Cain. He’s very supportive when it comes to Holly, but he knows she’s bad news and wants her to leave the village. He knows she’ll just bring more trouble for Moira, who will be worried sick.”
Cain forms a plan and he tricks Holly into getting in the back of the van, where he locks her in and tells her to ring Dean as they’re setting him up. On a secluded road they’re soon joined by Dean and Cain offers him a deal, if he stays away from Holly.
Things spiral out of control and Cain ends up attacking one of Dean’s henchman and Holly is devastated as he drives off. Later, Cain pulls up near a bus stop and tells Holly to go and to never come back, but does Holly have Cain over a barrel, when she threatens to tell Moira about what happened between them and will Cain have no choice but to agree to take Holly back home?

[Ruffed_lemur]

A pity Holly has returned like this.

[alcapo11]

A pity Holly has returned like this.

Its a pity she returned at all, IMO the actress who plays her is terrible.