Charity Dingle Tate Sharma (Emma Atkins)

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Emmerdale star Emma Atkins has warned that her scheming character Charity Dingle will "play the long game" as she sets her sights on her old flame Cain.

Charity was harbouring strong feelings for Cain when she bowed out from the ITV soap last year, but don't expect her to make a play for him too quickly.

Viewers will see Charity arrive back in the village tomorrow (March 10) after being released from prison. Needing support from Cain and his wife Moira, she decides that it's best not to rock the boat - for now.


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Emma Atkins on This Morning

Speaking on ITV's This Morning today, Atkins explained: "I think she was going to pursue him immediately on exit of prison, but she decides to play the long game.

"They're a great close-knit [couple] now, Moira and Cain. And I think they're brilliant together as well. So I was kind of hoping they wouldn't immediately have Charity on his heels. So I think it's going to be a long-burn."

On Charity's connection to Ross Barton - the father of her baby son Moses - she continued: "He's just great for some wheeler-dealering, I think. They kind of have a love-hate relationship."

Atkins was on maternity leave throughout 2015 after becoming a mum to baby boy Albert, her first child. Her pregnancy was only announced after Charity had been jailed, preserving the top-secret storyline twist.


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Emma Atkins on This Morning

"It was all kept a little secret, which was fun to do actually," Atkins said today. "It was quite hard at times, when I felt thoroughly pregnant! I think I left at about 7 months, so it was fine actually and we managed to do it. But at the time I was thinking: 'How's it going to work?'

"I told them [early], because I had lots of stunts with Jason Merrells. His character wanted to kill my character, so that all had to be sorted out with stunt co-ordinators. I was secretly a bit frightened because I was pregnant, but the stunt co-ordinators were brilliant so it was fine."

Discussing her year off, she added: "I loved it. But I've loved coming back. I've been dying to get back into the job."

Emmerdale airs Charity's return tomorrow (March 10) at 7pm and 8pm on ITV.

By Daniel Kilkelly, Digital Spy
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Video: "Emmerdale's Emma Atkins On Charity's Return | This Morning", 9 March 2016, 4m 48s
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Emmerdale's villagers won't know what's hit them as an explosive new storyline sees Charity Dingle become The Woolpack's new landlady.


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Charity Dingle behind the bar at The Woolpack in Emmerdale

Charity returns to the village tonight following her one-year stint in prison, but it won't be long before she's ruffling feathers by announcing herself as the new joint owner of the iconic pub.


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Charity gives Doug the cash

Show bosses are leaving fans to guess whether Charity's new position could provide her with the stability she needs, or simply go to her head. But with Charity's reputation, it's sure to be the latter and Chas Dingle (Lucy Pargeter) may have a fight on her hands to keep her in line.

Emma Atkins, who plays Charity, commented: "It is just brilliant to see her behind the bar. Something very different. She will be under the watchful eye of Chas, but both characters can give as good as they get so it will be a colourful dynamic.

"My pint pulling can literally floor my workmates, by being brilliant one minute and horrendous the next. It's a continuity extravaganza as I'm learning the ropes from the props guys and Lucy of course.

"It's a skill in itself having to say the lines, work the props and try and give a fluid performance without having an expression of dread wondering if the pint will have a good head of 'froth' on it!"

If the dodgy pint-pulling wasn't bad enough, we fear that Charity's attitude could be enough to drive the customers away for good.

Atkins added: "The bar is a bit like a stage for Charity where she can show off and deliver her explosive one liners to the locals. Her behaviour will no doubt fluctuate from good to bad to ugly, with a decent dose of naughtiness thrown in."

Tonight's ​Emmerdale​ double bill marks Charity's permanent return to the show. Atkins was on maternity leave throughout 2015, but made a number of guest appearances over the course of the year.

Emmerdale airs tonight (March 10) at 7pm and 8pm on ITV.

By Daniel Kilkelly, Digital Spy
http://www.digitalspy.com/soaps/emme...-the-woolpack/

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Emmerdale actress Emma Atkins has opened up about how she felt when returning to work after a year of maternity leave.

The 40-year-old, who gave birth to her first child Albert in April 2015, said becoming a mother has given her a new perspective on her character Charity Dingle.

"I feel a freer person," she told The Huffington Post UK and other reporters. "It’s the weirdest feeling, but I’ve come back with a new energy.

"Maybe that will help in terms of being a mum because, you don’t realise it until you become one how fiercely protective you become."

Atkins, whose character returned to TV screens at the beginning of March, came back from maternity leave in February 2016.

The actress said having her own child and giving birth gave her a sense of being able to achieve greater things at work.

"I'm not afraid anymore," she said. "You feel less afraid when you’ve had a baby.

"I was quite fearless anyway I guess, but I’ve got a sense of freedom now.

"I think it's been a really good thing to get my mojo back with the character. I’ve missed it, I’ve missed my job, I love my job.

"And I loved being at home with Albert, so to come back it’s refreshing."

One thing Atkins was worried about when returning to work was ensuring she still had a work/life balance.

After having a year off from filming, she initially thought having to leave her son at home would be "horrendous" - luckily it has been the opposite.

"I think everything needs a balance - life, work, everything - and now I’ve got that balance," Atkins explained.

"I miss him, but I’m absolutely fine with it because I see him at the end of the day and I can’t wait to hug the bones off him."

And Atkins has brought Albert to work on a few occasions.

"He’s not actually been on set, but he’s been into the makeup room and all the girls just go crazy for him, because he’s a cutie," she said.

But she doesn't want her son to get the acting bug.

"No! Absolutely no way, he’s not doing it no," she exclaimed. "Doctor, spaceman, not an actor."

When asked whether she'd have more children, Atkins wasn't shy to reveal her future family plans.

"Yes I would!" she said. "Probably one more but I’m 41 in two weeks so you can never take it for granted. I might not get pregnant.

"I think it’s the perfect age, but you just never know, do you?

"It might be that I can’t get pregnant. So never say never."

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IMO, Charity has really owned Emmerdale since she returned last Thursday (10 Mar).

Charity has totally played the DevilGirl I predicted that she would/should, just like in the movie "Bedazzled".

Charity really has great instinct for money-grabbing selfish schemes (even if they are full of Swiss cheese holes, haha!)

I really love Charity right now!

That very special guy and his mother have been so totally played by Charity since she came back to Emmerdale last week.

I'm even starting to feel really sorry for that very special guy! (But I jest here really!) It's as if I'm in the shadows watching everything and I'm really laughing my socks off about how Charity is playing the easy hapless victims in Emmerdale right now, the No.1 hapless wonder being that very special guy, of course!)

Charity, for me anyway, has really owned Emmerdale in the episodes from last Thursday. I've really loved how she's really played and identified all of the biggest Emmerdale fools so early on. Charity threatens with her girly wiles but doesn't for now follow through beyond her [completely idiotic!] threats, of course. Haha!

All of Charity's latest "victims" are just really horrible people in Emmerdale, when based on their known histories, and really deserve everything Charity throws at them now, I reckon.

So, really, for me anyway, Charity has really come back to Emmerdale and is picking on the biggest hapless victims and scumbags first. (Charity, you are so totally honourable for me right now. Just bring it on even more, you so real DevilGirl!) I really would like Charity to do the power-dressing thing, though. This would be just the icing on the cake for me really...

As for that very special guy. Haha! The hair thing really came across on TV for me as a purple rinse when he was at the jeweller's! Haha! Wasn't there some CCTV too? Just who anywhere near remotely sensible would try to rob a High Street Harrogate jewellry shop like that and also park an obvious garage pick-up recovery vehicle nearby? Mental or what? (Like mother, like son? Haha!). BTW, that very special guy doesn't really do "Family Guy" at all for me. I really preferred that very special guy when he was mean and moody and a lone wolf who kept his emotions to himself. But, heyho, soapland is as soapland does and needs must...

Spoilers say that Charity becomes closely involved with Holly Barton soon and suggest that Cain and Charity may be a sort of item (once again?) by Xmas 2016? We'll see and time will tell on this maybe?

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[QUOTE=Telly Watcher;844563]IMO, Charity has really owned Emmerdale since she returned last Thursday (10 Mar).

Well IMO: Charity has just repeated her past storylines and I don’t believe that she owed Emmerdale at all. Although, her re-entry into the village in a Ferrari was one for the books. But honestly I hardly think that there is anything more to Charity than a Gold-Digging/Scam-Artist. In other words she’s a one trick pony. It would be good to see Charity finally get a story where her character grows up (A Little), something with substance that doesn’t involve Cain or any other man that she has already been with or destroyed.

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Emmerdale village has just not been the same without the tornado of destruction that is Charity Dingle.

Thank heavens she is now back and bringing chaos in her wake – from stolen cars to selling babies, she hasn’t changed a bit and we wouldn’t have it any other way. And, as you’d expect, there is much more to come from the Dales’ minx.

As she and Holly Barton team up to rob the Woolpack, we are reminded that Charity really has zero morals – and, down the line, that will prove very handy in her bid to snare her ex Cain from the hands of his wife, Moira.

We caught up with Emma Atkins, who took a year out to give birth to her son Albert, and she revealed what’s in store for Charity, whether she could ever win Cain back and how it’s been returning after twelve months away…

Can you talk us through what happens with Charity and Holly?

Holly puts it to Charity, she makes the suggestion that they could rob the Woolpack, make it look like it was a robbery and actually just steal some money from the safe. Charity’s really nervous about it and then she goes, you know what let’s do it. So she helps Holly set it up, she goes, ‘bring a rucksack, there’s about £30 grand down there’ and she goes down and what will be will be. They set the fire alarm off so that they can empty the pub in order to do the dastardly deed.

Had you ever worked with Sophie Powles before?

Our paths crossed but on a very minor level so I was really excited about working with her.

You’ve got the same hair as well!

Yeah, we look like sisters, don’t we?

Does Charity get involved with Holly in order to get back at Moira?

Yeah there is that element of, let me bring you into my fold, and spit you out. I think she’s quite jealous of Moira, to be honest, because she’s been taking good care of Noah whilst she’s been in prison and there’s been a real bond evolving between the two of them, much to Charity’s dismay. I think there’s a jealousy there that’s an underbelly of, she doesn’t really want anyone to know. But it’s definitely there. She’s stung a bit when she first comes out of prison and she’s in the kitchen and she sees just a natural bit of affection between them both and her blood’s boiling inside.

What about wooing Cain, is she still dead set on that?

Well you would think that after what she said when she went to prison, she was so determined to pursue him immediately on release, but I think she decides that she’s up against it because they have such a tight knit. They’re so good, Moira and Cain. They’re such a team, that I think she knows that it might be best leaving it for a while! I think she’s thinking, ‘Okay well if I’m going to do this, I’ll do it the right way and play the long game,’ and make Cain fall in love with her again somehow, somewhere, some day.

So that’s bubbling away?

Always, she’s always got that possessive nature I think. She assumes he’ll just come running at a click of a finger and he’s not going to because he likes Moira.

Do you think that will ever happen?

I personally always like that thing of, that moment when you see a couple and you want them to get together but the moment they do it’s a bit ‘what do we do now then?’ So it’s always that thing of keeping it burning, that slight desire, secret desire, is always good to watch and I think sometimes with certain characters, when you do want to place them together, it’s like ‘where do you go from here?’ I think the audience quite like the fight in them, rather than getting on. The bickering seems to be quite humorous and jovial and the banter’s good between them because they give as good as they get. I quite like just the before putting them together.

Do you think Charity’s learnt anything from her time in prison? Or has she been drawing up a new list?

There’s no reformed features in her whatsoever. When I first read the script that she was stealing a Ferrari less than 24 hours after her release, I thought good for artistic licence, because how are they getting away with this? But she just seems to be a fearless, ruthless woman and that maybe makes her likeable because she just doesn’t seem to care. But much to her detriment, I guess.

Is she easy to slip back into?

I honestly thought, do I even know how to act? That feeling of ‘I’ve been away for a year, I’ve been a mum, what if I suddenly can’t get this character and everyone’s going, ‘what’s she done to her character? Where’s she been? She really hasn’t got it anymore.’ That crossed my mind but I know my character so well that it is a bit like putting on a pair of gloves or a pair of socks. It came back quite quickly.

But the first day we filmed, it was ever so cold in the field that we were filming and the Porsche gets stuck. I read that the jacket gets ripped and I read that thinking, ‘yeah that’ll be fine’. But on the day the wind was so, you know when wind cuts through you, and it froze our faces so Nat Robb [Moira] and me, we were both trying to really get our blood back into our face because it was really holding us back.

Were you looking forward to coming back?

Yeah I think it’s been a really good thing to get my mojo back with the character. I’ve missed it, I’ve missed my job, I love my job. And I loved being at home with Albert so to come back it’s refreshing.

Have you been watching it while you’ve been off?

Do you know what the best way for me is, I’ll go on YouTube and I’ll put in storylines so I can catch up and watch people’s performances and stuff. I watched all of Charlotte [Bellamy, Laurel]’s alcohol stuff on YouTube and I was blown away. I thought she was absolutely incredible, brilliant.

Is there any storyline you’d like to see for Charity?

I just think people seem to like it when she’s at her best when she’s at her worst almost. So when she’s doing the worst things possible, people go, ‘oh you’re so naughty, but we love it’. So I love playing her being quite mischievous, so when she’s up to her neck in trouble I feel challenged more as an actress anyway because there’s a spectrum of emotion, isn’t there?

I think it would be quite interesting to see her being bullied because that’s something that’s happened in the past, I can’t think who with now. But I think it would be quite good for maybe her to be almost terrified of losing everything because somebody’s got a hold over her. I don’t know, that would be quite interesting.

Does being a mum change the way you view your career?

Yeah, again I have a feeling of what will be will be. I’m not afraid, you feel less afraid when you’ve had a baby. I was quite fearless anyway I guess but I’ve got a sense of freedom now.

What’s it been like coming back and leaving your son Albert at home?

Fine, I thought I’d be horrendous but I think everything needs a balance, life, work, everything and now I’ve got that balance. And I’ve had such a luxurious time off, I’ve been so lucky to say I could have a year off from my job and they were so great about it, that coming back absolutely felt right. Timing wise, everything. And I miss him but I’m absolutely fine with it, because I see him at the end of the day and I can’t wait to hug the bones off him.

Has he been to set yet?

He’s been in a few times, not actually on set but he’s been into the make up room and all the girls just go crazy for him. Because he’s a cutie!

Do you find it quite relaxing to get away from the kids and be you at work?

Absolutely, of course. We were joking, some of us who were mums were saying if your call time’s 10 in the morning, a few mums have admitted to coming in at seven to run lines and learn lines away from the home. Because obviously when your baby is there and they want constant attention and you’re trying to learn lines it’s like juggling. It’s a complete juggling act, isn’t it? I’ve not done that yet by the way, come in early. I said to my boyfriend this morning, ‘I’ve been called in an hour earlier,’ and he said ‘Oh really, have you really though?’ Or are you just after time away from us two, the boys.

How do you feel about your new role at the Woolpack as well?

Amazing news. I got wind of that as a rumour and I thought ‘Oh my god, following in the footsteps of…’ And obviously Chas runs the bar and runs it so effortlessly that I was thinking how will that work? But actually the dynamic of the two of them behind the bar is just going to be fantastic. I love working with Lucy [Pargeter], she’s a hoot. She’s bonkers like me, so I think together it’ll be an interesting dynamic. Because she is quite sensible, Chas has had to be, she’s got the bar, she wants to run it well. She’s quite in control of doing things well and then Charity comes in and she knows that Charity is quite lazy and will happily read a magazine when she probably should be pulling pints. But she needs the money so she’s willing to give it a go. So that in itself already is sparks for a conflict because you’ve got very hardworking, and then you’ve got – Charity’s hardworking at doing illicit things but when it comes to being sensible, she’s a bit like ‘this is boring.’

Who do you think will be Charity’s next victim – male wise?

So she’s been working with Ross a lot. I mean he’s lovely and I love working with Mike. I kind of think that would be the obvious dynamic because Debbie’s away, he’s been in love with Debbie. That would be a very dangerous territory. But they have got a baby, it’s funny because it’s sort of love-hate with Ross and Charity because they really annoy each other and they’re tied by this child so they have to see each other. I’m not sure where they’ll take it. It could be great that they’re just mates in the end and they rob a car well together.

Are you coming back with a renewed vigour?

Yeah I feel like I’m coming back with a vengeance, I feel like I’m getting my mojo back now. It took me a while but I’m finding my feet again now. Again a new sense of purpose, finding out that she’s running the bar and she’s with Ross. I love the dynamic with Charity, Cain and Moira. I love that, it’s so funny because she’s always trying to wind Moira up and Moira just won’t stand for it.

Did you stay in touch with people while you were off for that year?

Yeah Charley Webb [Debbie] always, we’re on WhatsApp literally every five seconds. ‘What you doing?’ ‘Well what you doing?’ ‘Are you alright?’ ‘Yeah I’m fine, are you?’ And then we think, why don’t we just pick up the bloody phone, it’s ridiculous. Our WhatsApp, if you scroll back and you go: ‘Four hours of this? Just pick up the phone, be done in five minutes!’ But yeah I’ve got some firm friends here.

Even people that I would not necessarily see socially but it was so good to see again. So there was the aspect of meeting new people that I’d not really worked with before, and I think I’m going to be working with Louise [Marwood, Chrissie] soon a little bit, which will be fabulous because I’ve never worked with Louise who’s gorgeous and I can’t wait.

Would you have more children?

Yes I would! Because I think the point being, everybody has a different experience, every single woman who has a child cannot say it’s like this for everybody or it’s like that for everybody. You just can never determine what it’s going to be like. I’m 41 in two weeks so you can never take it for granted. I might not get pregnant. I think it’s the perfect age but you just never know, do you? It might be that I can’t get pregnant. So never say never.

By Duncan Lindsay for Metro.co.uk
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http://metro.co.uk/2016/03/22/emmerd...lpack-5762874/

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Emmerdale schemer Charity Dingle will be triumphant this summer as she finally gets her claws back into her ex-lover Cain.

The show's producer Iain MacLeod has confirmed the shock news, which will naturally throw a huge spanner in the works for Cain's marriage to Moira.

Tense scenes due to air over the coming weeks will see Cain (Jeff Hordley) left furious when he discovers that Moira has been deceitful.

This leads to Cain finally giving into temptation with Charity (Emma Atkins), who has made no secret of her desire to reignite their passionate relationship in recent months.

Cain makes a discovery
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MacLeod revealed: "We've had Charity circling the Cain and Moira camp for some time, trying to split up 'Coira'. Well, we can reveal now that Charity will eventually get her man.

"In what form and how and when that happens, you'll have to wait and see. But finally, she's able to come in and deal what she thinks is the killer blow to that relationship - will it survive outside of that?"

It sounds like Emmerdale fans will be left guessing over Cain's future for quite some time, as we won't see him make the final decision between the two women in his life until later in the year.

MacLeod added: "Where will Cain's heart take him? Whether it will be with Charity or with Moira, that's all the business to come towards the back of the year. But for this summer, it's Charity getting her claws into Cain finally - all her dreams come true."


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I really doubt she would kill herself

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what is her plan to get cain done for murder by faking her death

could she become preggers againi by cain or ross

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what is her plan to get cain done for murder by faking her death

could she become preggers againi by cain or ross