Ross Barton (Michael Parr)

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Emmerdale has unveiled the first of its new Barton arrivals in a surprise storyline twist.

Ross Barton, played by actor Michael Parr, is a new regular character for the ITV soap and had a big role to play in tonight's double bill (October 24).
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Cain's contact stumbles into the house injured.
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Ross Barton's scenes in Thursday's Emmerdale


Viewers saw Ross burst into Butler's Farm looking for Cain Dingle (Jeff Hordley), having been shot while carrying out a dodgy job that Cain had originally intended to take on himself.

Cain's partner Moira Barton (Natalie J Robb) failed to recognise the injured intruder, but later realised that he is her nephew.

In a further twist, Ross has already made previous appearances on Emmerdale as he was the carjacker who targeted Laurel Thomas in the summer, sending her over the edge.

With Ross staying at Butler's until he recovers, Cain is now feeling unsettled by his presence - knowing that he is trouble.

Speaking to Digital Spy today, Parr commented: "I am thrilled to be playing a regular character in Emmerdale. It was always the plan that Laurel's carjacker would be revealed as Moira's nephew - Ross Barton.

"It has been fun keeping his identity and my role a secret. Although I did nearly burst from wanting to tell people. Ross is a great character and there is lots to come for him in future episodes."
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Will Marlon and Cain make it to Laurel in time?
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Laurel with carjacker Ross


Digital Spy has been aware of the Ross Barton twist for some time, but kept his arrival a secret to provide an element of surprise for viewers.

Friday's Emmerdale episode will feature the first appearance of former Coronation Street star Bill Ward as James Barton - Ross's father and the brother of Moira's late husband John.

James also has two other sons who will be joining the village.

In the meantime, next week's episodes will see Laurel freak out when she realises that the carjacker is staying at Butler's.

[tammyy2j]

Wow good twist and nice it was kept a secret

[britgirl]

Bring on the other sons. Need eye candy lol.

[heydrich39]

More boring bartons. moira/james will get on well as he will be as interesting as her john lol cant anyone be in a relationship without cheating if i was cain i would get out while he still can.

[tammyy2j]

Emmerdale newcomer Ross Barton surprises everyone next week as he saves schoolgirl Gabby Thomas from being hit by an oncoming car.

Viewers know that Ross has caused nothing but trouble since his debut on the show - especially for Gabby's step mum Laurel - but has he really come good at last?

Here, Michael Parr - who plays Ross - reveals more about the storyline and his character's motivations.

Quite a few people in the village are convinced that Ross is a nasty piece of work. Would you describe him as that?
"He is a nasty piece of work, but nobody is just one thing. There are many levels to Ross, but all that we've seen so far is him just being a nasty piece of work. Over time you may see another side to him but predominantly he is that, yes!"

The Laurel carjacking incident wasn't a first for Ross, was it?
"No, it wasn't a first, and he does it out of necessity. It's not because he's necessarily getting a thrill from it, but he's a rough lad and that's how he makes his money, so he does it to survive."

Does Ross feel any guilt about what he's putting Laurel through at the moment?
"There is an element of guilt but also he's out for himself - he's just trying to survive. Ross is an adapter, he's just doing whatever he has to do to get by."

Next week, Ross saves Gabby by jumping in front of a car when she's about to be knocked over. Does he do that to earn favour, or is it an instinctive reaction?
"No, it's completely instinctive. He's just doing a good deed. He's doing what anybody would probably do to protect someone who's in need. It was a really fun moment to shoot - it was a hard scene, but it's going to look great. There's a car which is going pretty fast, so Ross grabs Gabby to get her out of the way. Unfortunately, he gets hit by the car himself."

How badly is Ross hurt?
"He's hurt pretty badly, and he's still got his gun wound, too. He doesn't break any bones but there's a lot of bruising and a couple of cuts on his face."

Later in the week, Marcus comes back to haunt Ross and Cain by trashing Butler's Farm and attacking Adam and Moira. How does Ross feel about that?
"Well, the place looks like a complete mess. There's been a fire, they've ransacked the house, they've stolen lots of things and there's some personal things to Moira that have been taken as well or lost in the destruction.

"Ross feels absolutely gutted - this is not what he wanted, but ultimately he believes that this wouldn't have happened without Cain. Cain is the one that's got him involved in this and it was just a little bit above his head."

So he doesn't blame himself then?
"There is an element of guilt within himself, but he always thinks the way his life has turned out is somebody else's fault. He's a blamer - he always puts it onto somebody else."

How would you describe Ross's relationship with Moira?
"I can't give too much away but he needs a mother figure in his life. She has that hold over him and she's actually somebody who's been nice to him and there's been a lot of years in his life when nobody's given any thoughts towards him or cared about where he is. Well, that's what he thinks anyway. So when somebody is nice to him, it's a change and it's unusual."

What does Ross make of Cain?
"He likes Cain's wild side, because he's a wild boy himself and he kind of looks up to Cain. They can work together. Ross recognises himself in Cain and vice versa. There's a connection between them because of the lives that they've had.

"So there's a bit of mutual respect for each other, even though they seem to rub each other up the wrong way because they're very good at getting on the wrong side of people."

Ross takes a liking to Debbie Dingle, doesn't he?
"He fancies every girl, but Debbie is particularly beautiful and she's moody and stubborn. She doesn't really let on too much, so I think Ross sees her as a bit of a challenge."

He likes the look of Katie too, doesn't he?
"Yeah, Katie is another beautiful girl that he sees. He finds out that she's married at the time or she's going through a divorce and that's another element of a challenge to him. It's something he's got to try and crack, and it's a conquest for him."

Do you think they'd make a good couple?
"No, I don't think Ross is too much of a relationship guy to be honest. He's just had a traumatic upbringing and I don't think he knows how to form relationships with people very well - he finds it weird when people are nice to him. He also prefers being on the wrong side of people - he's looking for a scrap most of the time!"

Have you settled in well to Emmerdale?
"I have yeah. Everyone has been absolutely amazing. I've been working with people who have been in the show for 10 years now. Everyone's welcomed me here and given me advice when I've asked for it and just been very caring and nurturing.

"Working with Jeff Hordley (Cain) and Bill Ward (James) is bizarre because I'm from the North West, so growing up we'd watch the Northern dramas. I'd see Bill in Corrie and watch Jeff in Emmerdale, so to be on set with them sometimes it can be a bit daunting and I feel a little bit starstruck because I've grown up with those guys.

"Working with Nat [J Robb, who plays Moira] is absolutely amazing - she's so much fun on set and she's a constant professional. They've all been really nice and helped me so much."

Who are your favourite Emmerdale characters from your time watching the show?
"Cain. I love the bad guys, but Cain has always been on that right side of not being a murderer but liking a fight. He's just played it so well over time."

Would you like Ross to show a softer side like Cain?
"Well, I think he is a bad boy so he's got to be bad. He doesn't know how to be good, because nobody's really been good to him and he's placing the blame. Ross is bitter and angry about things, so it's going to be a long time before he softens - if he softens at all. I think it's going to get a lot worse before it gets any better."

Last year you appeared on Hollyoaks as Leah's real father Billy. Did that give you a taste for working on a soap?
"Yeah, although I only did one episode with them. I was meant to do a few more but it didn't pan out. But yeah, it was very fast and really gave me a good insight into how this whole machine works. I wasn't quite aware of how many people actually work for Emmerdale when I first started.

"The hardest part has been actually learning everybody's names in the crew and then learning the actors' names. That's been the most overwhelming part of it - not necessarily the acting or the job itself, it's just meeting everybody."

Did your family and friends watch it before as well?
"Yeah, my grandparents and aunties watched it quite religiously, and I've got a little sister who's only 3, so we've not really shown her too much because it's a bit dark. She doesn't understand, she just keeps calling out 'Mike's on the TV!'"

How did you feel about your casting being kept secret?
"It was a hard one for me to keep a secret. I told my very good friends and some family. I didn't even tell all my family because I wanted it to be a surprise. I knew they watched Emmerdale so I wanted them to turn it on and be like, 'Oh my god! It's our Michael'.

"But yeah, Twitter just exploded that night. There were lovely messages coming through a lot of requests on Facebook from people I don't exactly know, but I was ready for that and I knew that was what would happen."

[tammyy2j]

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[lizann]

don't put him with katie and Debbie if he is he is doomed

[britgirl]

It wouldn't be serious with them, as the actor said he just thinks they're beautiful but he's not the type to settle.

[tammyy2j]

I think him and Debbie will happen soon as there seems to be some tension between them

[sarah c]

I think him and Debbie will happen soon as there seems to be some tension between them

Not after he slept with her mother surely??!!

[sarah c]

I think him and Debbie will happen soon as there seems to be some tension between them

Not after he slept with her mother surely??!!

[Perdita]

Adam did not have problems bedding mother and daughter

[tammyy2j]

Not after he slept with her mother surely??!!

That wont stop him

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Ross Barton makes a surprising alliance with Donna Windsor this fortnight as she continues to make some risky decisions.

With terminally-ill Donna (Verity Rushworth) desperate to provide for the future of her daughter April, she seeks help from Ross as she gets involved in criminal activity.

Here, Michael Parr - who plays Ross - reveals how his character's unlikely new connection with Donna will develop in the next few episodes.

What does Ross make of Donna?
"Donna is an attractive girl, but Ross knows that she's a police officer, so he doesn't trust her. Ross finds himself attracted to Donna and she has approached him with these deals to make money, so he's intrigued by her to start with."

What makes Ross start to trust Donna?
"First she approaches him with already-stolen goods, so he knows she's obviously a little bit dodgy at first. She also kisses him and that's always a good way to get Ross on board - a bit of a sexual tension between them tips him over the edge!

"It's also Donna's willingness to make a bit of money. Ross is not quite sure on her motives, but he is fuelled by his greed of making money and we kind of assume she's on the same path."

Does Donna tell Ross that she is ill?
"No, Ross has absolutely no idea."

Donna's first plan is to provide Ross with some stolen jewels for him to sell on, but she ends up being disappointed by the cash she gets. Why is that?
"It's just that Donna is a bit of a rookie and she isn't used to how the world works. She thinks that the jewels are worth the value that they are in the shop, and that's not the way it goes with knocked-off jewellery!"

What does Ross think when Donna comes up with a plan to rob Gary North, a well-known criminal?
"Ross thinks she's punching a bit over her weight, but he's willing to do it because it's a big pay-off. Ross knows Gary through reputation and he knows he is someone not to mess with, but Donna approaches him with a good plan to get away.

"Ross makes sure that she's involved too - he's not willing to just jump in there and take all the blame himself. He has to know and Donna has to prove herself that she's in this 100% as much as he is."

Pete warns Ross that Donna may be trying to set him up. How does Ross react?
"Ross already has those suspicions. It has always been in the back of his mind that Donna is a police officer, and when he hears what Pete says, he goes in all guns blazing and automatically assumes the worst.

"You can't say Ross is the brightest guy in the world, but he's not a mug either. And his brother is such a goody-two-shoes, he never would think that his brother would lie to him."

Donna and Ross carry out the robbery, but Gary returns home unexpectedly. What happens next?
"They get caught a little bit short and they have to do certain things to convince Gary North that they are just normal civilians. That's when Donna puckers up and Ross obliges. The kiss is a cover-up story that leads somewhere else."
Is this the point when Ross begins to fancy Donna?
"Donna is a female, so Ross liked her as soon as he saw her at the wedding. She had that beautiful red-pinkie dress on, and she's got a beautiful smile. Donna is attractive, so when she kisses him and she's doing these bad jobs with him, he realises he's found the one - he has found his match.

"I think Ross thinks it's a lot of fun, but I don't know if he thinks any more than he's just going to get sex, really. It's not until a little later when he starts to develop some feelings towards her. "

How does Ross plan to shift the stolen goods?
"Ross is well-connected. He has been a dodgy lad since he was 13, so he calls for guys down in the big smoke. He shifts that way, because he's got to get the goods out of Yorkshire."

But then Donna warns Ross that he should sit on the goods for a while. How does he feel about that?
"Ross doesn't like the fact that Donna is in control. She tells him quite abruptly and it contradicts the original plan, so Ross doesn't like that. He wants to do his own thing, put his stamp on it and show Donna that he is the one in control."

What are Ross's feelings towards Debbie after what happened between them?
"Ross is in control of Debbie now - he's got information, which is power to him, really. He can manipulate her now. Ross still finds her attractive and she's still a beautiful girl at the end of the day, but he's starting to run the show now. But there's a sense that he's also starting to forget about her now that there's a new female on the scene."

Is Ross afraid of getting caught by the police?
"Yeah, he is terrified. That's the last thing he would want to do - to go down and have his freedom taken away, as it is with anybody. It's just that Ross is a risk taker and he is out for himself!"

[tammyy2j]

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[tammyy2j]

Anyone else finding his relationship with Donna and feelings for her very rushed?

I do like them together but it seems very rushed

[helena1414]

Does it? I've fallen in love faster than that.. ;)

[tammyy2j]

Does it? I've fallen in love faster than that.. ;)

I'd prefer a slow burn but I guess as she is dying that cant happen

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Ross Barton is left in turmoil next week after the tragic death of his secret lover Donna Windsor.

The village's bad boy is full of anger over the way Donna died, and ends up on the warpath as he tries to get revenge on Aaron Livesy (Danny Miller) for ruining their final dodgy job.

Here, Michael Parr - who plays Ross - reveals how his character will cope with Donna's tragic fate.


How does Ross feel after he loses Donna?
"Ross is all over the place. It's probably the worst thing that's ever happened to him and he starts to lose control. He gets very emotional, very unstable and he points the finger by blaming other people.

"Ross won't take any responsibility for Donna's death, so he's a bit of a loose cannon and that makes Debbie concerned for him. She's worried that he's going to go and open his mouth and let the cat out of the bag by revealing that Donna was a dodgy cop."

Does Ross blame himself for anything that happened?
"Ross never blames himself. It's perhaps one of the only situations in Ross's life where he isn't to blame for causing a mess. It was Donna's idea to rob Gary North's house, so it's her mistake which has had all of these repercussions. He doesn't blame himself even though he was heavily involved. That's why he goes after Aaron instead!"

How will Ross cope without Donna?
"Ross will survive, as he'll get on with it and he gets by. You can't keep him down for too long, but he is heartbroken as he misses Donna. He's only ever loved two people in his life - his little brother and unfortunately now, Dead Donna!"
How does Ross react when he finds out that Donna was ill and didn't tell him?
"For Ross, it completely changes all of their history. What Ross thought their whole relationship was based around just becomes a complete lie, so he feels used, heartbroken, betrayed and really angry."

Could they ever have made things work in different circumstances?
"I like to think that Ross would have made a go of things with Donna. He'd fallen in love with her and he even says that he was willing to take on the responsibility of being a dad to April, which is a huge commitment.

"However, it's Ross and you just don't know! He always pushes people away whenever he falls out with them. I don't know how it would have panned out!"

Does Debbie support Ross after Donna's death?
"Debbie is an absolute diamond, really. Considering that Ross has done a few nasty things to her and has teased her in the past, she becomes a very good friend and she is the only one who really helps him.

"James does come round and tries to comfort Ross but he can't help but prod him at the same time, so that gets a big reaction out of Ross. Debbie is the only one that he can turn to."

Ross ends up giving April the money that Donna had left for her. How does that go?
"At first Ross finds it very difficult, because when he looks at April, all he sees is Donna because they look so alike. It's hard for him to see her, but it was Donna's last wish for April to get this money. Ross hands it over but Marlon doesn't know where the money has come from, because Ross can't explain how they got it. Marlon ends up burning it because he feels it's dirty money!"

What is Ross's biggest fear when the time comes to tell Marlon about his relationship with Donna?
"Just that he won't be believed. Ross was so paranoid that Donna thought she was too good for him, so he's worried that people will think that and say that he was lying or wasn't worthy."

How does Marlon react to finding out the truth about Ross and Donna?
"That breaks Marlon as well, because I think he was starting to feel a few things towards Donna that he perhaps shouldn't have, because he is getting married to Laurel. Marlon hates Ross more than anybody else in the village because of what he did to Laurel, so it's a big kick in the teeth for him.

"It's also another secret and Marlon is getting frustrated because nobody is ever going to really get to the truth of what Donna was thinking. Donna was the only one who had all of the answers and now she's gone."



What can you tell us about Ross's attitude towards Aaron?
"Ross decides that he's going to take immediate action with his fists and he's going to go after him. He wants revenge against Aaron and he's pointing the finger at him. Aaron isn't really to blame at all, but that's just the way Ross's mind is working. He sees red and can't see past this mist. There's going to be quite a few to-dos over the next few weeks!"

What is Ross capable of at this point?
"Anything at the minute! He just wants justice and not just somebody getting arrested. Ross sees it more along the lines of 'an eye for an eye'. He wants immediate revenge by making Aaron hurt the way he is hurting himself - even if that's hurting him emotionally rather than physically."

There's one particular row in The Woolpack, isn't there?
"Yes, Ross finds out that Aaron is in the village and knows where to find him. It's like a red rag to a bull and he goes round there immediately. They have a few words before all hell breaks loose and they're swinging at each other!"



How threatening is Cain when he visits Ross later?
"Ross isn't afraid of Cain, but he does respect him because he's gone down the same road in the past. Cain does try threatening him, but because Ross is in such a state, it doesn't really work.

"Then Cain tries connecting with him on a much more personal level and tells him about his past experiences when he was dating a police officer. It's like a mirror image. It kind of gets through but not completely."

Does Ross care about what happens next, or is he on a road to self-destruction?
"Ross is always on a road to self-destruction! He's his own worst enemy and he's completely out of control at the moment. He needs someone there to help guide him, but that's why Debbie comes round to help him. She knows he's in self-destruct mode."

How does Ross feel when April goes missing towards the end of next week?
"It's a real weird one for him because seeing April just hurts him more and more, but he respects the fact that she was the thing that Donna held most precious to her. He wants her to get home and be safe, so it weighs heavy on his mind that she's gone missing."

How was it to film your final scenes with Verity Rushworth?
"It was bittersweet. I've enjoyed working with Verity so much and we got on so well. I'm just so grateful that I got to work with her. I'm gutted that she's gone, but I'm sure that she'll go off and do amazing things.

"There was one scene where I had to be crying and we did so many takes that I was starting to dry up. I had to think about something else and just thinking that I might not see Verity again for a long time had me going again, so I was like, 'Roll the cameras, roll the cameras!'"

What was the best thing about working with her?
"Just how easy it was to get along with her. Verity is never in a bad mood and she's never tired, so she always gives everything to the scene. One minute we could be screaming at each other in a scene, but the next, they'd yell cut and we'd burst into song and start dancing around the set, so I'll miss the silly moments like that."


Do you think fans have been rooting for them?
"From what I've seen on my Twitter, people have nicknamed us Ronna and everyone seems to love it. I don't see what people say about other soap couples, but the feedback I've got is that people seem to really like them."

What do you want to happen to Ross next?
"Over the course of the last six or seven weeks, you've seen Ross soften much more since the attack on Finn. It would make sense now for him to revert back to type and go back to his old ways by being the bad boy that everyone wants him to be!"

Would you like him to have a new romance?
"I think inevitably he will, but I don't want to take anything away from what he had with Donna by jumping into something straight away!"

How do people react when they see you out and about?
"I get recognised for my hair! If I have a hat on or if my hair is messed up, nobody seems to spot me!

"But it's always positive - I've never had people say anything bad. People just seem to love the character of Ross and the fact that he's so cheeky and rude to people. Some people wish they could do that in real life and get away with it and they can't, but Ross does!"

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Ross Barton will be left devastated next week when he finds out about Donna Windsor's secret kiss with Marlon Dingle.

Ross makes the discovery when he overhears Paddy Kirk telling his wife Rhona about how close the pair became in the build-up to Donna's tragic death.

While viewers know that Donna and Marlon's kiss was nothing more than a moment of pure emotion and grief, Ross reacts badly to the revelation - seeing it as yet another betrayal from Donna.

Paddy is later shellshocked when Ross tells him that he knows about the kiss and he might be tempted to reveal the truth to Marlon's fiancée Laurel Thomas.

Michael Parr, who plays Ross, explained: "He finds out about how close Donna and Marlon got, so that messes with his head. It's going to send him off the rails.

"You're going to see Ross's darker side and his need and want to hurt people when he's down and out. It gets quite dark for him."

Full of conflicted emotions, Ross later makes a surprising move of his own as he makes a pass at Debbie Dingle in the aftermath of Donna's funeral.

Still angry that Donna didn't tell him she had cancer, Ross breaks down in an emotional heart-to-heart with Debbie (Charley Webb) - before getting caught up in the moment and kissing her.

Ross urges Debbie to say that she loves him, but viewers will have to wait and see whether she stays loyal to her current boyfriend - Ross's older brother Pete.

[lizann]

he has signed a new contract to stay longer so us ladies can continue to swoon over him :p

[kennedyfan86]

We still haven't found out everything about him from the time he was separated from his family, hopefully that'll be explored and it will be interesting. Looking forward to Emma coming into it too, Ross has clearly missed the love and influence of a woman figure in his life since she left, i imagine he'll be bitter towards her or just ignore her completely. I hope he does get the chance to find love again after coming to terms with Donna

[Katy]

I really like him.. looking forward to finding out more about him when the new character arrives. I thought he was great during the Donna episodes.

[tammyy2j]

He is suppose to be leaving on screen for a month or two soon to get over Donna etc., and I think he returns then with the mother

[Perdita]

Emmerdale's Ross Barton returns to the village next week but devastates his brother Finn when he announces that he doesn't intend to stay.

Still struggling in the wake of Donna's death, Ross (Michael Parr) soon becomes emotional at the mention of her.

Ross then breaks the news to Finn (Joe Gill) that he doesn't think he can stay there very long due to everything that has happened, leaving Finn crushed.

Concerned and wanting to be supportive, Finn tells Ross he has paid his rent for the next month.

Touched by his brother's concern, Ross agrees to stay until he has paid him back, but can he be persuaded to stay in the village for good?

Emmerdale airs these scenes next week on ITV.

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Emmerdale bad boy Ross Barton hasn't had much to celebrate this year, but in real life, the character's popularity has earned actor Michael Parr a nomination at the National Television Awards 2015.

Michael has secured a place on the longlist for the Best Newcomer category but is now relying on public votes to take him through to the final shortlist.

Digital Spy recently caught up with Michael for an exclusive chat about his nomination, his acting career to date and some snippets on what to expect from Ross's upcoming return to the village…

How does it feel to be in the running for a National Television Award?
"It's really flattering. It makes me a little bit nervous because it would be great to win, but I'm just really grateful to have been put forward for it. There are other people out there who are doing a great job as well, so I feel like I'm in a category of good actors and I'm quite proud of myself, really! If I made the shortlist I'd be over the moon, but it really is just nice to be nominated."

When did you first hear the news? Did you find out before the official announcement?
"No, I found out by people saying congratulations on Twitter - that's usually how I find out about most things these days!"

Have you thought much about your chances of winning?
"I haven't thought about it too much, but I know Maddy Hill from EastEnders is also up for it and she won the prize at the British Soap Awards. The NTAs are a huge event and very glamorous, so if I did win and had to make a speech, I'm sure I'd be very nervous. The awards are held at the O2 and they do pack it out. It must be like you're playing Wembley if you have to get up and make a speech!"

How did you feel about getting your first award with the Best Newcomer prize at the Inside Soap Awards earlier this month?
"That was nice - it was nice to win something finally! I've been nominated quite a lot since I joined the show but hadn't actually won anything, so it was great to finally take home an award. I think I was the most-nominated person in the room, so it can be a bit embarrassing when your name keeps getting mentioned but you don't actually win anything!"

When you joined Emmerdale, did you ever expect Ross to make the impact that he has done?
"I knew the character had the potential to come in, make a big impact and affect a lot of the characters in the show. I didn't expect to get the big love storyline that I got with Donna, though, and I didn't realise how much of an impact he would make with that. Just from my Twitter responses, people seem to have taken a big shine to Ross. I think people just love to hate him because he's a bad lad but he's got a heart as well."

Did that turnaround in opinion surprise you?
"I knew when I heard about the Donna storyline and those scripts started coming out that it would change people's opinions of Ross, but I also quite like it when people give me abuse about him and people hate him! As long as I'm getting a reaction out of people, I know I'm doing my job right. Whether people are saying they love Ross or hate him, it's great to get a response."

Which of your scenes are you most proud of?
"The scene that stands out to me is one that we filmed for the aftermath of Donna's death. Ross was back in the house on his own and he had to cry. That's always quite a challenging thing - when the crew shout 'action' and you have to turn those emotions on straight away, but from the hard work that me and Verity Rushworth had put into the build-up, it came really naturally. I knew we had worked really hard just by how emotional we felt when we were filming it."

Ross has been off screen for a while, so have you heard from many fans who are missing him?
"I get quite a lot of tweets every day asking when Ross is coming back and I've not been allowed to say much about it. I did slip up once and write something on Twitter, but I had to delete it very quickly!"

Was your break storyline-led or did you want the time off?
"I never want time off, really - I absolutely love coming to work! It just so happened that the storyline was coming to an end and I had two weeks' holidays left. I'd also been set to go to Glastonbury, but I couldn't go as it was when we were filming Donna's death and they really needed me to be around. They owed me a week for that too, so with the three weeks I was away, two of my friends were travelling around South America and I just went to join those guys."

We can say you are coming back, so does Ross have some good material coming up?
"I have been back filming and I've already had lots of stuff to sink my teeth into. You can expect an explosive return and you might see the return of the old Ross, not the one that you last saw…"

Do you want to see Ross go back to his old ways?
"I think you've got to earn people's affections, really, so it's nice to push people away, bring them back in and then push them away again. I like to turn people's opinions around, so when I left the show some people were saying that they loved Ross and thought he was great, but now I think people are going to be quite abusive towards me again!"

What kind of work were you doing before Emmerdale?
"I did my first play when I was about 10. I did a lot of musicals up until the age of about 16, and I did a lot of operas when I was a kid as well. I had a very high-pitched, squeaky voice - I'm sure there's videos kicking about somewhere that I hope are never found!

"I went to college in Birmingham and did a BTEC. That was quite hands-on so we did lots of plays there - lots of Shakespeare and Jacobean plays. Then I went off to drama school and afterwards I got quite a lot of work on the fringe circuit, but never cracked the West End or bigger theatres, which is something I'd still like to do whenever this job comes to an end.

"I also did a few different TV shows but always playing bad guys. I don't know what it is about me that's giving off that bad guy vibe!"

How have your friends and family reacted to your Emmerdale fame?
"To those guys I'm not famous at all - I don't feel famous and even if I did ever get above my station, they'd bring me down a peg or two!

"They've all been over the moon as they've seen the hard work that I've put in. I've done lots of other jobs in between acting too - I've worked in factories, I was a teacher, and I did fitness training. I've pretty much done every job I can to get to where I am right now. I'm just grateful that I can now wake up and not have to do a job that I don't really want to be doing."

Did you have other passions just in case acting didn't work out?
"Yeah but I think I missed out. I did kickboxing and Muay-Thai for a long time, so I would really like to own a gym and I think I would get a lot out of coaching people and watching their progression.

"That's something I would have maybe liked to have done if I'd started a little bit younger - I'm way past it now for a kickboxing career! At 28 those careers don't last for very long!"

[kennedyfan86]

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[alan45]

Emmerdale airs a big moment for bad boy Ross Barton this week as he comes face-to-face with his mum Emma for the first time in years.

When Ross accompanies his brothers on a night out, he is surprised to be approached by Emma (Gillian Kearney), who is keen to have some contact with her sons following Finn's recent visit.

We recently caught up with Michael Parr, who plays Ross, to hear more about the new chapter in the Barton family's storyline and his reaction to being shortlisted for Best Newcomer at the National Television Awards.



How do you feel about Emma Barton finally being introduced?
"It's so great to have a new member of the Barton family. It's always nice having somebody new in the show because it brings in a different energy. It's also been really good to have a woman this time, as the new Barton arrivals had all been boys before this. Gillian is a brilliant actress, so it's great to have somebody join who I actually look up to and admire as well."

Have you all been helping Gillian to settle in?
"We have. I took Gillian up to the scheduling department on her first day and showed her around a bit. It's not like she isn't used to it as she has worked lots before, so it's just a case of showing her how things are done around Emmerdale. It's been a really nice dynamic because Gillian is just so lovely and I'm thrilled to bits to have her playing my mum."

Can you understand why Ross is hostile towards Emma?
"I can understand it, because you just can't walk straight back into people's lives after all that time. Ross is a bit reserved about that because he's had 20-odd years of his mum not being around.

"There's also an underlying tension and a big history between James and Emma, which Ross is not fully aware of. There are lots of unanswered questions, so that's also giving Ross a bit of an attitude towards his mum."

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Emma approaches her sons

What happens when Ross and Emma finally come face-to-face again this week?
"Ross and Pete take Finn out for a few drinks because he's been a bit down recently. The boys all just happen to be in the same place as their mum, so that's how they all see each other again. It's a bit strange at first because Ross doesn't recognise his mother - it's been so long and he was so young when she left. So it's actually Emma who approaches him."

It's then Ross who tells Emma the truth about Moira and James after all these years! Does he do that spitefully?
"No, it's not a spiteful move from him. Ross is not trying to hurt his mum but it just happens. There's so much history between them and there's so much information flying around. You know what Ross is like - he's not one to mince his words, so he tells it how it is!"

Will the viewers be surprised by the other Barton secrets that will be revealed in the next couple of weeks?
"I think the viewers will be surprised, but it's going to make good TV. There's a dark history there and it's going to be very entertaining to watch."

Later this week, James hints that Emma will listen to Ross more than anyone else… Why is that?
"It's because of the history between the family, but I can't give anything away! There's a bigger story between Ross and his mum than perhaps with the other brothers. Lots did go on when James and Emma were breaking up, and Ross might have played a bigger part than the others…"


Emmerdale's producer Kate Oates has previously said that Ross may need his mum more than he lets on. Do you hope they will form a bond?
"I'd like them to, yes. I think Ross doesn't know how to handle women too well. He hasn't grown up with his mum and the love of his life has just passed away, so it's all new territory for him. I think it's going to be good for him to have Emma around."

Fans have also loved the Ross and April scenes recently. Have you enjoyed filming those scenes with Amelia Flanagan, and are there more to come?
"I love working with Amelia. She's absolutely adorable and you always have fun when you're with her, just because she's so bright and she knows exactly what she's doing. Amelia also knows what everyone else should be doing and if you make a little mistake, she's on you! (Laughs.) She's got a bright future and I love working with her.

"I hope there are more Ross and April scenes to come. From what I've seen in scripts for the next few weeks I don't have anything with her, but I'd like to have more. It would be nice for April and Ross to carry on the bond that they've got."

Will Ross be getting up to no good in future storylines?
"Ross isn't getting up to mischief at the moment, but it's his general attitude towards other people that is getting him into trouble. I hope that Ross stays as a darker character, though. I think you've seen enough of his light and softer side with the Donna story, so I'd like him to revert back to type."

Would you like Ross to get a new love interest?
"It would be nice and I'm sure there will be a new girlfriend at some point, but if it was up to me I'd like to give it a bit more time. The work that me and Verity did and the relationship between Ross and Donna was quite a big thing, so I don't want to discredit that by having Ross jump into bed with the next girl that he claps his eyes on!"


How do you feel about being shortlisted for the Best Newcomer NTA?
"I'm chuffed to bits. It's a great feeling to be nominated. I'm nervous too, and it's one of those things where the more I think about it, the more I would like to win.

"I'm not very good at self-promotion, though. Even my mum keeps saying 'You need to keep bigging yourself up!', but I think I'd be even more disappointed if I gave it loads of energy and still didn't win! I'm just grateful to be nominated and I'm trying to see that as a victory in itself."

It must also feel nice that you and Verity are the two individual nominees this year!
"Yeah, that's great too. Verity deserves it so much, she really does. I remember one day I had to do a scene where I had to cry and it took a couple of takes. I realised then that Verity had been crying a couple of times a day for the past five months! It does take it out of you. Never mind everything else she did, that alone is worthy of the award I think!"

Have you got your suit prepared?
"It's funny you should say that, as I've been getting a bit of advice from a few different pals about what I should wear and everyone is telling me different things! I want to stand out a little bit, but not too much.

"A while back there was an awards event where the invitation said 'black tie and party attire', but I clearly just looked into the party attire! I wore light trousers, a brown jacket and a white shirt, but everyone else was in a black tie and I think I stood out a little bit too much there!"

Why should fans be voting for Emmerdale as the top soap this year?
"I just think it's been a great year and we've got another great year coming. We're all working so hard and we just really want the fans to enjoy the show."

[Perdita]

Emmerdale producer Kate Oates has hinted that the spark between Debbie Dingle and Ross Barton could be revisited.

Debbie (Charley Webb) is currently in a relationship with Ross's older brother Pete, but Oates has teased that a new storyline may see her tempted by Ross once again.

Speaking in a new video released by Emmerdale, Oates said: "Ross will always be a thorn in his brother's side and Debbie does always like a bad boy.

"The question is: will it cause problems or can she actually remain focused and stay with the man who really would probably make her happiest?"

Viewers saw Debbie grow close to Ross last year, but she has since been focused on a more serious relationship with Pete.
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Debbie and Ross in Emmerdale

Oates said: "I am really excited about Debbie's relationship with Pete and it has definitely grounded her. We've seen her make sacrifices for him that she'd never make for anyone else, for example, when she was going to put Charity in prison to save him.

"It represents a lot that's been missing from her life – proper stability, someone she can trust and someone who can be a father to her kids. But Ross is always on the sidelines."

[alan45]

Emmerdale star Michael Parr has spoken about Ross Barton's feelings for Debbie Dingle, admitting that the bad boy wants a commitment from his brother's girlfriend.

Debbie (Charley Webb) is currently in a relationship with Pete Barton, but is left with food for thought next week when she and Ross find themselves holed up in a hotel room together as part of a dodgy job.

Ross makes the most of his time alone with Debbie by revealing the extent of his feelings for her, but his actions backfire as she feels that he is coming on too strong.

Speaking of the scenes to come, Parr explained: "Ross talks to Debbie about Donna when they're in the hotel room. He has a bit of a heart-to-heart with her. It's always been Debbie that's made Ross talk about his feelings.

"Ross was always a bit of a loose cannon and now he thinks he's got nothing to lose. Losing Donna just confirmed it, so now he is just wild and reckless. I think that's what Ross sees in Debbie. He sees her as a commitment. If she commits to him, then he will think he's got something worth living for, but until that happens he won't.

"Ross is also attracted to excitement and Debbie is exciting. She's not offering it to him on a plate - he's got to work his backside off! If Donna didn't have the cancer and she wasn't doing her dodgy jobs, he'd have just thought she was boring old Donna. It was the spark and the situation that they were in. Now Ross and Debbie find themselves in a situation, so it's just amplified between them."
Debbie tries her best to forget about Ross by proposing to Pete at the end of next week, but Ross is adamant that she is making the wrong decision.

Parr added: "Ross knows it's wrong to go after his brother's girlfriend, but he doesn't really care. He just wants the girl - he wants that more than anything! Ross needs a female figure in his life and he's looking for it in Debbie.

"When Debbie and Pete get engaged, Ross has it in his head that she wants him and she's just afraid because of her past experiences. He's hurt by it, but he thinks that Debbie is lying to herself. He's not too threatened by the engagement because he thinks that one day she'll come good. But he wants it now - he wants it immediately.

"I think it's similar to Cain and Charity. Everybody knows that couple who are together one weekend and then the next weekend they've split up. That's how I imagine it will pan out between Debbie and Ross, if it works out! The writers have written it so well for us. It's never straightforward, but that's the interesting dynamic."

[KiwiElle]

Emmerdale bad boy Ross Barton has more busy times ahead on screen next week as he carries out another dodgy job, makes a play for his brother's partner Debbie Dingle and also exposes one of Robert Sugden's dark secrets.

It's also been an eventful year in general for the roguish character and Michael Parr, who plays him, has now been rewarded with a longlist nomination for Best Actor at the British Soap Awards 2015.

Digital Spy recently caught up with Michael to hear his reaction to the nomination and some teasers on what's ahead for Ross.

Last year you were up for Best Newcomer at the Soap Awards and now you've moved up to the Best Actor category! How do you feel about being nominated?
"It's a nice feeling - it feels like I've gone up a league! I'm just glad I'm not in the same category as Maddy Hill from EastEnders because I can't seem to beat her! (Laughs.)

"It's just very flattering to be nominated and hopefully it'll be a success for Emmerdale on the night, even if it's not me who wins it. Danny Miller and Kelvin Fletcher are also up for Best Actor so if one of us took it home, I'd be happy."

Do you think you have a decent chance of making it to the shortlist?
"Who knows? I think we've all had a good year. My stuff was a lot earlier on, so I'm kind of hoping people haven't forgotten about what Ross and Donna went through. Kelvin has done great this year and so has Danny, so I'm just happy to be nominated, really."

A lot of the Emmerdale fans do feel that the show is overlooked at award ceremonies, so do you think that might change this year?
"I think we're only in with a good chance if the fans who think we're overlooked do vote for us. We do have a lot of fans who kindly vote for us, and the show's ratings are strong too, but somehow we're not getting the most votes. I'm not quite sure why as I think we really deserve it. We're not in it for the awards, but it is nice to take something home and get a little bit of industry recognition."

As you've been up for Sexiest Male yourself in the past, what do you think of the decision to scrap the sexiest categories?
"I wasn't a massive fan of the award anyway, but I think now that Danny Mac has left Hollyoaks and Keegs has left Corrie, everybody else was thinking, 'Maybe I'm in with a shot here!' (Laughs.)

"When I went to awards ceremonies last year, I was nominated a few times for Best Bad Boy, Best Newcomer and Best Storyline. I think if I'd won Sexiest Male it would have been a bit of a kick in the teeth, because I didn't go to drama school just to be judged on my looks."

Are you pleased with how Ross's character has developed since Donna's death?
"Definitely, it's been great. I thought things would die down after Donna's exit, but some of the stuff after that has been really good too. After he lost Donna, Ross came back all guns blazing and was a lot more ruthless and reckless. It was a lot of fun to have him stealing cars again.

"The writers must like me, because they always seem to give me cool lines. Whenever I'm doing scenes with Finn and Pete, I always seem to get the cheekier, ruder lines. I get to chase the girls a lot as well, which suits me!"

Emma's arrival has brought a whole new dynamic to the Bartons, so have you enjoyed exploring that too?
"It's been absolutely great, even just the dynamic of having another female on set. We're quite a boy-heavy family, so it's been great to work with Gillian Kearney. She's such a professional and she's very thorough with her work. She really knows what she's doing - she's so good.

"It's also changed the dynamics of the family because Ross isn't the crazy one anymore! I think people also sympathise with Ross now, as they can maybe see why he is the way he is. It's been good to bring Emma into the show as it's given the family a big backstory and I think people understand Ross's history a lot more."

The family don't seem to have fully realised that Emma has a darker side. Do you think they need to watch out?
"I think Pete already has his suspicions, but as the story plays out, we'll slowly start to see that she isn't the full shilling..."

While arguing with Emma at the pub next week, Debbie exposes how she tried to kill Ross when he was a baby. How does Ross feel about that?
"Ross is just heartbroken that it's Debbie who has let the cat out of the bag. Out of everybody in the village, he really thought he could trust Debbie. He's a little bit gutted when he finds out that everybody knows because of her."

Ross does later make a play for Debbie, so would you like to see them together properly?
"I think it's more interesting seeing them as a forbidden thing. There are definitely elements of Cain and Charity in their relationship as well, as they're not meant to be together but they can't seem to stay away from each other. I think me and Charley Webb have a good dynamic on screen, so I'll be happy whichever way the writers want to take it."

Does Ross stop chasing Debbie once she gets engaged to Pete next week?
"Something like that's not going to put Ross off! You can look at it two ways - Ross is either out to get his brother or he's out to get the girl. You can decide which one you want to believe, but he's definitely not going to let something like a ring get in his way."

Are you expecting another on-screen fight with Anthony Quinlan (Pete) as the storyline develops?
"Well it's Ross - I'm always expecting a fight! I think I spend more time in that make-up chair getting bruises put on me than I do on set sometimes! You can definitely expect fireworks between the two brothers."

Next week also sees Ross tell Chrissie that Robert was behind last year's Home Farm raid. Why does he decide to spill the beans now?
"Next week there's a heist situation where Ross and Debbie end up at a hotel together. Ross is doing that because Chrissie is having problems with her ex-husband Donny and there's a lot of money involved, so she gets Ross on board to help her.

"Chrissie is paying Ross to do the job, but she doesn't quite come up with the cash that Ross wants in the end. Because he's got this information, he retaliates by letting the cat out of the bag to Chrissie - and it causes a lot of problems for her."

Would you like Ross to find out Robert's other secrets? He's still hiding quite a few!
"I'd like him to, yeah. Ross always wants trouble with somebody and the more he knows, the more he can hold it over people. Knowledge is power, so the more secrets Ross knows, the more he can be a little bugger!"

Next week sounds like a busy week for Ross, but is it going to be a big few months ahead for him in general?
"From what I've heard, it sounds like it's going to be a busy few months for the whole cast, not just me. Everyone has been dragged in and all holidays have been cancelled. I'm looking forward to it!"

We've heard teasers of a huge summer storyline...
"Yeah, I'm really looking forward to it but I don't quite know exactly how it's going to pan out yet. I only find out things about three or four weeks before we start filming. We're just a little bit outside that at the moment, so I'm not quite sure on the exact details yet."

In the past you warned that viewers might turn against Ross because of his dodgy actions after Donna's death, but many fans seem to have stayed on his side! How do you feel about that?
"It's very flattering that I can't seem to do any wrong at the moment - it's nice that I've got the audience on side. I don't know what I'd have to do to push them away again. It would have to be something really horrible, and I don't think I want to do something that bad! We'll just have to wait and see where the writers take it."

[tammyy2j]

Ross Barton gets some unwelcome surprises next week as he attends his brother Pete's engagement party.

Ross is bemused to find that Pete's fiancée Debbie Dingle (Charley Webb) is trying to set him up with Carly Hope at the celebration, hoping that it's the best way to forget about her own feelings for Ross.

To make matters worse, Ross is soon rocked further when the man who he and Debbie recently conned arrives in the village looking for revenge...

Here, Michael Parr - who plays Ross - reveals the gossip on another eventful week for his character.

How has Ross been feeling since the recent dodgy job with Debbie?
"It's put a few things into perspective for Ross. He's spent a lot of time with Debbie recently and they've been in close quarters together. It was exciting for him and Debbie is a very attractive girl.

"There were feelings there beforehand anyway. When Ross first moved to the village, Debbie was the first girl that he met and all of that has come back into play. They have kissed in the past and there is a history, there is chemistry there."

How is he feeling about the fact that Debbie is now engaged to Pete?
"Ross is off licking his wounds at the moment, but something as small as a ring is not going to stop him. He's not going to stop chasing the one that he wants just because she's got engaged to his brother. Ross and Pete have a horrible relationship anyway!

"There is a future between Ross and Debbie, but as for how that happens and when that happens, we'll just have to wait and see."

Could Ross ever love Debbie in the same way he did Donna?
"Ross was absolutely head over heels for Donna. I think with Debbie, it would be a completely different kind of love and the relationship wouldn't be as smooth. Had Donna not been in the situation she was in, I think they would have had a really nice relationship, whereas if Ross and Debbie ever did get together, they'd be arguing and probably smacking each other all the time because they're such fiery characters. It'd be very different, but there would be a lot of love between them both."

Why does Debbie make a point of inviting Carly to her engagement party next week?
"Debbie is trying to put Carly in between her and Ross. She's clutching at straws, because she knows that Ross is in pursuit and she can't seem to shake him. Debbie can see that Carly is a strong character and if she plays matchmaker between her and Ross, maybe it will work out and then Debbie can go and live this nice happy life that she wants to live."


Is Ross attracted to Carly?
"He is attracted to her, but she's not the one that he wants. Carly is a little bit too easy and a little bit too straight for Ross. Ross likes it a little bit more complicated! He enjoys the chase and Carly is giving it to him a little bit too much on a plate at the minute."

What goes through Ross's mind when Charlie appears at the engagement party?
"It's a really big shock because Ross and Debbie think they've got away with the scam they pulled on him. Charlie is clearly a very dodgy character and he's hanging round with some big heavies so when he walks in, Ross's heart sinks. Everything he thought he was going to get away with is now going to come back to bite him.

"It's also not just Ross who could be brought down by this. Ross wouldn't care if he thought it was just him, but it's also Debbie that's in trouble now."

How does Ross react to Charlie's arrival?
"Ross follows him out of the pub, because he doesn't realise that Charlie has his henchman there. He just thinks he can follow Charlie and sort it out. Ross has got a smooth way with words, he's confident and also a little bit handy, while this Charlie bloke is a little bit older, so Ross thinks that he can sort it outside away from everybody else. Cain picks up on what's happening as he watches on - he doesn't miss a trick!"

What happens when Ross realises that he's in danger?
"It looks very bad. Somehow Ross does manage to get himself out of it, but does that put him in another scrape? It just opens another can of worms for Ross, as things seem to do!"

Are you filming some good stuff at the moment?
"Well at the moment I'm covered with black eyes and a cut lip! As always I'm getting bashed up, so you can look forward to a lot more physical stuff for Ross..."

[tammyy2j]

Michael Parr has insisted that it would be "boring" if Debbie Dingle stayed happy with his on-screen brother Pete Barton.

The actor's character Ross Barton will soon be tempting Debbie away from Pete, as the ongoing love triangle involving the three characters grows ever more complicated.

Fans can expect the plot to play out on screen for a while, building up to an eventful wedding day for Pete and Debbie in the summer.

[Serena Williams]

Michael Parr has insisted that it would be "boring" if Debbie Dingle stayed happy with his on-screen brother Pete Barton.

The actor's character Ross Barton will soon be tempting Debbie away from Pete, as the ongoing love triangle involving the three characters grows ever more complicated.

Fans can expect the plot to play out on screen for a while, building up to an eventful wedding day for Pete and Debbie in the summer.

The writers are clearly making michael parr character ross the new leading man on the show. Parr has the looks, masculinity, and the charisma to be the leading man Ross is the new cain and Debbie is the new charity.

[Serena Williams]

Michael Parr has insisted that it would be "boring" if Debbie Dingle stayed happy with his on-screen brother Pete Barton.

The actor's character Ross Barton will soon be tempting Debbie away from Pete, as the ongoing love triangle involving the three characters grows ever more complicated.

Fans can expect the plot to play out on screen for a while, building up to an eventful wedding day for Pete and Debbie in the summer.

The writers are clearly making michael parr character ross the new leading man on the show. Parr has the looks, masculinity, and the charisma to be the leading man Ross is the new cain and Debbie is the new charity.

[lizann]

do yous think he is charity baby daddy by his reaction when debbie said her mum just had a kid

[maidmarian]

do yous think he is charity baby daddy by his reaction when debbie said her mum just had a kid

Possibly -tho my first choice is Declan.
If it is Ross - will add another dimension
to his relationship with Debbie as she is
babys guardian and half-sister!

[maidmarian]

do yous think he is charity baby daddy by his reaction when debbie said her mum just had a kid

Possibly -tho my first choice is Declan.
If it is Ross - will add another dimension
to his relationship with Debbie as she is
babys guardian and half-sister!

[tammyy2j]

Possibly -tho my first choice is Declan.
If it is Ross - will add another dimension
to his relationship with Debbie as she is
babys guardian and half-sister!

Debbie will be leaving as the actress is pregnant so once she finally gets with Ross no happy ending for them if he is her half's brother's father so he could be

[Perdita]

Emmerdale's Ross Barton will prove to Debbie Dingle that he means business next week when he ends his romance with Carly Hope in order to be with her.

As his feelings for Debbie intensify, Ross (Michael Parr) will realise that he can no longer be with Carly when he ultimately wants a future with Debbie.
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Ross and Debbie spend time together

Ross's decision comes after he and Debbie (Charley Webb) struggle to find time alone to pursue their secret fling.

With Debbie struggling with her guilty conscience, an oblivious Pete is concerned over her lack of interest in their wedding.
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Pete tells Debbie about his plans

Thinking that his fiancée is stressed due to the pressures of looking after her unwell younger brother Moses, Pete arranges for them to have a night away together.

However, he is unaware that she is enjoying a passionate clinch with his brother, and as Debbie and Ross arrange to meet up at Dale View later that night, they find their plans ruined by Pete's romantic gesture.
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Pete tells guilty Debbie he's taking her away for the night. Can Ross contain his jealousy?
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Pete tells a guilty Debbie he's taking her away

Following Debbie and Pete's getaway, Ross struggles to cover his anger as he listens to Pete talk about his night with Debbie.

Struggling to listen to them plan their wedding, it all gets too much for Ross who eventually storms off, while Debbie struggles with her mixed feelings.

Later, Ross leaves Debbie floored when he tells her he's ending things with Carly in order to be with her. What will Debbie do now?

To be shown next week :)

[Perdita]

Emmerdale aired a big moment at the end of Tuesday night's episode (June 30) as Ross Barton was confirmed as the father of Charity Dingle's baby.

A number of names have been in the frame since Charity gave birth earlier this month, but viewers now know that Ross is the man in question following a one-night stand between the pair last year.

Tonight's instalment showed Charity (Emma Atkins) making a call to her baby's father, before Ross later turned up at the hospital to see her and Moses.

Ross was quick to make it clear that he has no intention of getting involved in his son's life, but whether he changes his mind in future episodes remains to be seen.

While the rest of the characters are in the dark for now, fans will be left wondering what this could mean for Ross's current fling with Charity's daughter Debbie if the truth comes out.

Speaking about the twist, Michael Parr, who plays Ross, said: "I was chuffed to bits. I like working with kids and I have got a good relationship with Amelia, who plays April. I've got little sisters and I have always grown up around children.

"I got told that it was going to be a mystery and I had to keep my mouth zipped up. It has been good - a lot of people have guessed but I have never let anything go."

Speaking about how Ross and Charity's fleeting fling came about, Parr added: "It was when Ross and Aaron were stealing the cars. Charity was the mastermind behind it and Ross was just doing the dog work.

"They just had one bunk-up but that is all it takes and that is what happened. It was never planned and it is not Ross's style or anything like that.

"He didn't know fully if he was the father but there is always a chance. She can't have been with that many guys and there is only a handful of men in the village. There was always a chance and he was already nervous and worried before getting the call.

"It is not that Ross doesn't want anything to do with it but it just isn't his style. He is too wild, he wouldn't know what to do with a baby and he would rather keep them at arm's length or let someone else deal with them."

Parr also teased that the latest twist will have huge repercussions for everyone involved if Debbie does eventually find out.

He said: "When Debbie finds out, she is obviously going to react. But how she will react and if she will actually find out, we will have to wait and see."

[lizann]

so is he really dead?

[maidmarian]

so is he really dead?

The soap powers that be wish the viewers
to think.so.
See what tonights episode brings!

[maidmarian]

so is he really dead?

The soap powers that be wish the viewers
to think.so.
See what tonights episode brings!

[tammyy2j]

The soap powers that be wish the viewers
to think.so.
See what tonights episode brings!

Nothing more on Ross tonight

Is Pete going to bury or burn his body?

[maidmarian]

Nothing more on Ross tonight

Is Pete going to bury or burn his body?

No - I think.whichever way it turns out -it
will be dragged out.

I dont know what Pete will do -such a bodge
up so far. Possibly better not burn body -
(If he can remember where he put body
and its still there) he is so inept -dont want
another disaster -a fire!

[maidmarian]

Nothing more on Ross tonight

Is Pete going to bury or burn his body?

No - I think.whichever way it turns out -it
will be dragged out.

I dont know what Pete will do -such a bodge
up so far. Possibly better not burn body -
(If he can remember where he put body
and its still there) he is so inept -dont want
another disaster -a fire!

[lizann]

if and when ross body turns up debbie will think cain killed him

[kennedyfan86]

Ross soooooo isn't dead, he's a 9 lives guy known for disappearing, he'll creep out of that hole, slither off like a snake, all the while Pete's cracking up with guilt, bang, Ross comes strolling back into the village and Pete's suffering begins.
We're yet to discover what all the cloak and dagger stuff between Ross and Lawrence was all those months ago too, I think it's a case of 'watch this space'...

[mariba]

Ross soooooo isn't dead, he's a 9 lives guy known for disappearing, he'll creep out of that hole, slither off like a snake, all the while Pete's cracking up with guilt, bang, Ross comes strolling back into the village and Pete's suffering begins.
We're yet to discover what all the cloak and dagger stuff between Ross and Lawrence was all those months ago too, I think it's a case of 'watch this space'...

That's how I would have written it too..far more interesting.

[mariba]

Ross soooooo isn't dead, he's a 9 lives guy known for disappearing, he'll creep out of that hole, slither off like a snake, all the while Pete's cracking up with guilt, bang, Ross comes strolling back into the village and Pete's suffering begins.
We're yet to discover what all the cloak and dagger stuff between Ross and Lawrence was all those months ago too, I think it's a case of 'watch this space'...

That's how I would have written it too..far more interesting.

[Telly Watcher]

Ross soooooo isn't dead, he's a 9 lives guy known for disappearing, he'll creep out of that hole, slither off like a snake, all the while Pete's cracking up with guilt, bang, Ross comes strolling back into the village and Pete's suffering begins.
We're yet to discover what all the cloak and dagger stuff between Ross and Lawrence was all those months ago too, I think it's a case of 'watch this space'...

The police are going to question Cain at the farm during the week August 17th-21st and say they have found a body. It seems too late for a body to have been found in the village hall (about 2 weeks will have passed since the helicopter crash) so presumably the body is Ross' in the woods?

I've heard that Mike Parr (Ross) may be going to act in America but this hasn't been widely publicised to date. His mother is American and he has dual UK/US nationality, although he was born in St Helens, Merseyside on August 6th 1986. He so far seems to have been killed on Emmerdale by Pete Barton during the episode dated August 6th 2015, his 29th birthday, but identification of the body is in the future right now.

[kennedyfan86]

Yeah I knew all that about Mike. Never know, if Ross is really dead, Mike can audition for his favourite show - Game of Thrones lol

[mariba]

I'm hoping that the body found in the woods, will still be someone else. That's why I'm begging Robert to get rid of Adam and fast! :D

Emmerdale is going to lose loads of fans/viewers if they have killed Ross. In that case, I don't think I bother watching it anymore this autumn. I'll be busy anyway-and if it's not worth my time, why would I?
It angers me, that good characters like Ross(?) and Val, even Ruby were killed off when there were so many others to get rid off, no bother. Plus that so many more should have died in that crash.
Michael Parr was(is)one of the best actors in Emmerdale-yes, I can imagine he may easily have something else lined up, but why to kill him off ? That's just a mad decision. He could have just gone away for time being.. And if he really is gone, I think Kate Oates should say something as this speculation is quite frustrating for everyone, and not fair for Emmerdale fans.

[mariba]

I'm hoping that the body found in the woods, will still be someone else. That's why I'm begging Robert to get rid of Adam and fast! :D

Emmerdale is going to lose loads of fans/viewers if they have killed Ross. In that case, I don't think I bother watching it anymore this autumn. I'll be busy anyway-and if it's not worth my time, why would I?
It angers me, that good characters like Ross(?) and Val, even Ruby were killed off when there were so many others to get rid off, no bother. Plus that so many more should have died in that crash.
Michael Parr was(is)one of the best actors in Emmerdale-yes, I can imagine he may easily have something else lined up, but why to kill him off ? That's just a mad decision. He could have just gone away for time being.. And if he really is gone, I think Kate Oates should say something as this speculation is quite frustrating for everyone, and not fair for Emmerdale fans.

[Kim]

We don't know whether Michael Parr wanted to leave, though. A character like that is only realistically going to end up one way when the actor chooses to call it a day.

No excuses for killing Ross and keeping Adam when it was supposed to be a clear out, though.

[Telly Watcher]

The identity of the body is going to be interesting. It could still be anyone found anywhere in Emmerdale.

The storylines and filming for Emmerdale are completed about 3 months or so before we see the episodes on TV.

It is too late for anyone to change anything now, everything is already decided and filmed and lined up to show on TV like clockwork.

We'll just have wait and see what was decided and how things get played out in the bigger long-term picture of Emmerdale.

I don't think there will be any detailed explanations about the future from anyone making Emmerdale. Surprise and secrecy are what keep the viewers watching week-in, week-out.

It's fun guessing what could happen next though!

[lizann]

Yeah I knew all that about Mike. Never know, if Ross is really dead, Mike can audition for his favourite show - Game of Thrones lol

jon snow hottie replacement

[lizann]

Yeah I knew all that about Mike. Never know, if Ross is really dead, Mike can audition for his favourite show - Game of Thrones lol

jon snow hottie replacement

[Serena Williams]

The identity of the body is going to be interesting. It could still be anyone found anywhere in Emmerdale.

The storylines and filming for Emmerdale are completed about 3 months or so before we see the episodes on TV.

It is too late for anyone to change anything now, everything is already decided and filmed and lined up to show on TV like clockwork.

We'll just have wait and see what was decided and how things get played out in the bigger long-term picture of Emmerdale.

I don't think there will be any detailed explanations about the future from anyone making Emmerdale. Surprise and secrecy are what keep the viewers watching week-in, week-out.

It's fun guessing what could happen next though!

No the actual filming is only SIX WEEKS in advance.

[kennedyfan86]

No the actual filming is only SIX WEEKS in advance.

Yeah that's right, 6-7 weeks, the actors get the scripts 2 weeks before filming and anything can be changed at short notice these days cause they're always putting news events into episodes on the day, or the day after, so they can easily change anything if required and it's all about us viewers at the end of the day, Ross is best for the show and if they don't know that already, they're fools.

I personally plan to think we are being had over Ross's death, they're all playing the game to the viewers and that they'll be another huge plot twist to come there, he arrives back with memory loss, eventually remembering and seeking revenge, or something.
The force of that crack should've split his head open by rights, he should've been pouring with blood, but they have to be very careful not to irritate easily offended members of society who get finger happy to Ofcom and as Pete's not the brightest tool in the box it is possible he could've missed the fact that Ross is still alive and he'll do a Prisoner Cell Block h Joan "The Freak" Ferguson style faking he's dead only to suddenly open his eyes. The body found in the woods has to be someone else's. Actors are good at keeping secrets, they're lying for a living to start with so lying to viewers and media is a sinch.

[kennedyfan86]

No the actual filming is only SIX WEEKS in advance.

Yeah that's right, 6-7 weeks, the actors get the scripts 2 weeks before filming and anything can be changed at short notice these days cause they're always putting news events into episodes on the day, or the day after, so they can easily change anything if required and it's all about us viewers at the end of the day, Ross is best for the show and if they don't know that already, they're fools.

I personally plan to think we are being had over Ross's death, they're all playing the game to the viewers and that they'll be another huge plot twist to come there, he arrives back with memory loss, eventually remembering and seeking revenge, or something.
The force of that crack should've split his head open by rights, he should've been pouring with blood, but they have to be very careful not to irritate easily offended members of society who get finger happy to Ofcom and as Pete's not the brightest tool in the box it is possible he could've missed the fact that Ross is still alive and he'll do a Prisoner Cell Block h Joan "The Freak" Ferguson style faking he's dead only to suddenly open his eyes. The body found in the woods has to be someone else's. Actors are good at keeping secrets, they're lying for a living to start with so lying to viewers and media is a sinch.

[kiwigirl]

Well if Rose is dead :crying:, it just doesn’t makes make sense that the fight between him and Pete took place right outside the hospital and that Pete (being the “responsible” brother) couldn’t have thought to get help instead of burying his brother in the woods?

So Pete will be arrested and charged with Ross murder and Debbie leaves the Village for good I hope. Sick to death with her storylines, she’s has become too predictable for my liking.

[lizann]

debbie or hospital staff will eventually remember the fight inside and ross visiting but if it drags on for ages it is cameron all over again

[darkhorse]

Ok so my friends dad found a script for Emmerdale for the next three months. She's told me that in the script, around the time of Vals funeral, Pete is shocked when he comes face to face with a bloody and braised Ross who asks him why he tried to bury him alive. Ross tells Pete that the whole family knew what Pete did to Ross. Ross then spends that week trying to get Debbie back.This is all I know for now.

I'll update when I know more but Ross is definitely alive.

[mariba]

Great if true :) ! That's how I would have written it. We'll see.

[darkhorse]

There's also something about Megan getting pregnant but I'm not interested in any of that stuff tbh

[lizann]

don't do this im excited now ross is alive, the longer pete don't go back to the body gives me hope too

[shaine1811]

Me too, very excited to hear that. Hope it's true

[Kim]

I'm not particularly intrested in Megan getting pregnant but I can see why they're doing it (I haven't read any mags but I saw it on a cover of one posted in another thread on here.) There's more of a point to it than there seems to be to many pregnancies in soapland. Megan has lost the only child she had and already felt guilty about the fact that she hadn't raised him. She would keep the baby, but it's whether she'll put herself through it knowing from what she's seen with Rachel how Jai treats his child's mother. He's civil when you're with him, but Megan won't want to hang around knowing that he's been cheating on her. At least Gaynor Faye will get some material of her own to work with at last.

[Telly Watcher]

Ok so my friends dad found a script for Emmerdale for the next three months. She's told me that in the script, around the time of Vals funeral, Pete is shocked when he comes face to face with a bloody and braised Ross who asks him why he tried to bury him alive. Ross tells Pete that the whole family knew what Pete did to Ross. Ross then spends that week trying to get Debbie back.This is all I know for now.

I'll update when I know more but Ross is definitely alive.

Welcome to the Emmerdale soap forum as a new member who has just joined.

Your friend's dad has found an incredible item. A whole script for three months must be like gold dust. I wish I had it to read. I thought that each actor only gets his part of the whole script to see, the reason I say that is because Chris Chittell (Eric Pollard) said in a interview last week that he didn't know Ross had been killed until he saw the episode on TV on Thursday August 6th, such is the security on scripts and filming at Emmerdale.

http://www.unrealitytv.co.uk/soaps-2/emmerdale-star-chris-chittell-eric-pollard-says-of-ross-bartons-death-another-baddie-down-the-drain/

I guess that Val's funeral must take place in the near future, Eric identified the body today (Monday 10th) and I see no medical reason for a delay. Maybe the funeral happens next week (Tuesday's episode on April 18th sees Ashley make a mistake at the memorial)?

I find it hard to believe that Ross would turn up bloody and bruised at Val's funeral. He must have been eating and drinking to live so long by then and had a wash, most likely taken care of by somebody he knows inside or outside of the village. His clothes would be washed too.

Pete didn't try to bury him alive. Pete left the body in an open ditch in the wood and put some leaves/branches over it.

The Barton family don't know yet that's what Pete has done. Ross has just disappeared.

Next Wednesday (August 19th), Emma is worried about Ross and calls the police during the Friday episode (August 21st). Cain gets questioned by the police and is told that a body has been found. No details about location or identity of this body are available yet, however. It could be anyone found anywhere in Emmerdale.

Cain had a motive for killing Ross because Cain knew before the wedding that Ross had been in a relationship with Debbie and would be likely to spoil the wedding. That's why Ross was locked in the back of a van overhanging a cliff over a lake.

There is a lot of time yet before the body is found. Maybe the body is Ross'? Maybe something happens in the village in the meantime when someone gets murdered or a body is found in the debris of the village hall?

I suspect that Chrissie and Robert get arrested soon for their actions at the scrap-yard and Robert's lying to the fire investigator. How about they get bailed and Robert gets murdered by Cain or Pete, then Robert's body gets found next week?

I too want Ross to be alive and return to Emmerdale. He was one of my favourite characters. But the future episode summaries seem to be against Ross returning right now.

I've been watching Emmerdale for ages. During this time, actors who play bad boy characters in Emmerdale nearly always get hired, get given big storylines, have limited career lifetimes on Emmerdale and have big exit storylines. This happened to Carl King just before the last producer left, it happened to Cameron, it seems to have happened to Ross (I'm not sure when producer Kate Oates' contract ends, soon maybe?), the same thing will probably happen to Robert in due course and the same thing to Pete too. The only bad boy to have lasted has been Cain. The long-lasting characters seem to be the middle-of-the-road working family types. That's Emmerdale life, it seems.

[mariba]

Very sensible post Telly Watcher. I doubt too that anyone would have access to see the scripts 3 weeks beforehand - but at this stage I want to believe anything regarding ross being alive! ��

[mariba]

Very sensible post Telly Watcher. I doubt too that anyone would have access to see the scripts 3 weeks beforehand - but at this stage I want to believe anything regarding ross being alive! 😀

[tammyy2j]

I hope Ross is alive but that bang on the head looked and sounded very fatal to me

I know Pete can be a bit thick sometimes but not feeling a pulse, he isn't that stupid :p

[lizann]

now think ross is alive and emma helping him revenge on cain, debbie and pete

[lizann]

emma could be helping ross, think she is and he alive

[alan45]

Very sensible post Telly Watcher. I doubt too that anyone would have access to see the scripts 3 weeks beforehand - but at this stage I want to believe anything regarding ross being alive! 😀

Let alone 3 MONTHS as claimed by the poster

[alan45]

Very sensible post Telly Watcher. I doubt too that anyone would have access to see the scripts 3 weeks beforehand - but at this stage I want to believe anything regarding ross being alive! 😀

Let alone 3 MONTHS as claimed by the poster

[kennedyfan86]

Ok so my friends dad found a script for Emmerdale for the next three months. She's told me that in the script, around the time of Vals funeral, Pete is shocked when he comes face to face with a bloody and braised Ross who asks him why he tried to bury him alive. Ross tells Pete that the whole family knew what Pete did to Ross. Ross then spends that week trying to get Debbie back.This is all I know for now.

I'll update when I know more but Ross is definitely alive.

How did your friends dad find a script? I think we need to make friends lol, so Ross is alive? They don't normally give cast scripts until 2 weeks before filming, I'm assuming they must be made up ready to go quite a bit earlier than that though

[darkhorse]

Hilarious how people think I'm lying haha, you'll see in the very near future. Why would I create an account just to make up a sad lie lmao

[mariba]

I'm sure darkhorse that all of us who want Ross to be alive, also want to believe you. There's just so much speculation going on about it at the moment that no one knows what to believe..
All I know for sure is, that if he's dead, and we are expected to watch Pete struggling with his guilt for weeks to come, it would be Carl/Chas/Cameron all over again and I won't bother watching it. Even when Val-the funniest character-is gone, same as Nico away so no Jimmy&Nico at the moment.
I love(d) Ross, because he's not all that you see. There's more layers to him which makes him interesting, and one of the best if not THE best character at the moment.

[mariba]

I'm sure darkhorse that all of us who want Ross to be alive, also want to believe you. There's just so much speculation going on about it at the moment that no one knows what to believe..
All I know for sure is, that if he's dead, and we are expected to watch Pete struggling with his guilt for weeks to come, it would be Carl/Chas/Cameron all over again and I won't bother watching it. Even when Val-the funniest character-is gone, same as Nico away so no Jimmy&Nico at the moment.
I love(d) Ross, because he's not all that you see. There's more layers to him which makes him interesting, and one of the best if not THE best character at the moment.

[kennedyfan86]

Hilarious how people think I'm lying haha, you'll see in the very near future. Why would I create an account just to make up a sad lie lmao

It's the beauty of computers. You're not going to look foolish in person if it doesn't materialise, only on here and you don't even need to come back here.

They do plan stories about 6 months before and they have to draft things so it's not beyond possibility. So, does your friends dad work on the crew or something, how would he see such a thing? Even then it's all different departments, so they'd have to be in the script department anyway, anything that's not being filmed no on the set floor people will know about yet

[kennedyfan86]

Hilarious how people think I'm lying haha, you'll see in the very near future. Why would I create an account just to make up a sad lie lmao

It's the beauty of computers. You're not going to look foolish in person if it doesn't materialise, only on here and you don't even need to come back here.

They do plan stories about 6 months before and they have to draft things so it's not beyond possibility. So, does your friends dad work on the crew or something, how would he see such a thing? Even then it's all different departments, so they'd have to be in the script department anyway, anything that's not being filmed no-one on the set floor will know about yet

[mariba]

I hope you are right lizann :) Except that Emma wouldn't go against none of her sons. I actually love Emma as mother-a tiger mammy, exactly like any mother would be protecting their own, even as adults.

I've been reading through Emmerdale Facebook and Twitter pages, and people really want Ross back. If he's been killed off, I feel it'll be the biggest mistake this soap has ever made and it will lose loads of viewers. Shame.

[mariba]

I hope you are right lizann :) Except that Emma wouldn't go against none of her sons. I actually love Emma as mother-a tiger mammy, exactly like any mother would be protecting their own, even as adults.

I've been reading through Emmerdale Facebook and Twitter pages, and people really want Ross back. If he's been killed off, I feel it'll be the biggest mistake this soap has ever made and it will lose loads of viewers. Shame.

[Telly Watcher]

I hope you are right lizann :) Except that Emma wouldn't go against none of her sons. I actually love Emma as mother-a tiger mammy, exactly like any mother would be protecting their own, even as adults.

I've been reading through Emmerdale Facebook and Twitter pages, and people really want Ross back. If he's been killed off, I feel it'll be the biggest mistake this soap has ever made and it will lose loads of viewers. Shame.

I agree with you mariba. The whole point about Emmerdale's Summer Fate was about publicity and increasing viewing figures and success in the TV awards. The way the producers and storywriters did this was through the main storyline about the helicopter crash.

The Ross exit storyline starting with the fight outside the hospital was a minor one and his exit was so pointless and over so quickly. He either wanted to leave (I have my doubts about that as it seemed like a dream well-paid acting job to me) or the producers thought Ross was past his use-by date and ruthlessly wanted to clear the way for Pete to be the next bad boy. Bad boys on Emmerdale are hired hands who live fast and die young when the Generals decide so!

So, has Emmerdale's Summer Fate been long-term Ratings Winner or Show Suicide? We'll see, but there are about 50 characters in Emmerdale. If I wanted to save money during the making of Emmerdale, I'd rather have lost 4-5 of the minor characters than one big character like Ross who has a huge fanbase and helped keep viewers watching.

[alan45]

This thread is developing into a Shannis type thread. Oh Lord help us:nono:

[mariba]

I was just thinking how I would write Ross's return..

On the day of Val's funeral when everyone is gathered at the graveyard, someone would notice a fresh sunflower on Donna's grave-a certain sign that he' s alive.
Pete would panic and go and check where he left him-and he would be gone. Total panic! Cain would still be blaming himself, Debbie would be blaming her dad(and herself) and feeling sorry for Pete and Pete would be struggling with what he knows-that Ross is still alive and not being able to tell anyone while everyone would be talking about the mysterious flower on the grave.
Wouldn't even have to rush to bring him back if Mike Parr is busy with some other work.

[mariba]

I was just thinking how I would write Ross's return..

On the day of Val's funeral when everyone is gathered at the graveyard, someone would notice a fresh sunflower on Donna's grave-a certain sign that he' s alive.
Pete would panic and go and check where he left him-and he would be gone. Total panic! Cain would still be blaming himself, Debbie would be blaming her dad(and herself) and feeling sorry for Pete and Pete would be struggling with what he knows-that Ross is still alive and not being able to tell anyone while everyone would be talking about the mysterious flower on the grave.
Wouldn't even have to rush to bring him back if Mike Parr is busy with some other work.

[tammyy2j]

I think the summer fate has been a success for Emmerdale

http://metro.co.uk/2015/08/07/20-reasons-emmerdales-disaster-was-the-best-week-of-television-drama-ever-5332099/

[lizann]

petition set up now to get him back fans really want him back

[mariba]

I signed it! Can't believe I 've gone quite that far but I did! �� There's also a Facebook group ' bring ross back '. �� Starts to remind me of 'free deirdre barlow '! But seriously - we need ross back!

[mariba]

I signed it! Can't believe I 've gone quite that far but I did! 😀 There's also a Facebook group ' bring ross back '. 😊 Starts to remind me of 'free deirdre barlow '! But seriously - we need ross back!

[mariba]

I think the summer fate has been a success for Emmerdale

http://metro.co.uk/2015/08/07/20-reasons-emmerdales-disaster-was-the-best-week-of-television-drama-ever-5332099/

According to who?? Explosion was excellent, everything else just disappointing.

[mariba]

I think the summer fate has been a success for Emmerdale

http://metro.co.uk/2015/08/07/20-reasons-emmerdales-disaster-was-the-best-week-of-television-drama-ever-5332099/

According to who?? Explosion was excellent, everything else just disappointing.

[Ruffed_lemur]

Hilarious how people think I'm lying haha, you'll see in the very near future. Why would I create an account just to make up a sad lie lmao

Lots of people do this unfortunately.

[Ruffed_lemur]

petition set up now to get him back fans really want him back

Oh no! I think Emmerdale will look very foolish if they bring Ross back.

[Ruffed_lemur]

[QUOTE=mariba;827776]I hope you are right lizann :) Except that Emma wouldn't go against none of her sons. I actually love Emma as mother-a tiger mammy, exactly like any mother would be protecting their own, even as adults.

I've been reading through Emmerdale Facebook and Twitter pages, and people really want Ross back. If he's been killed off, I feel it'll be the biggest mistake this soap has ever made and it will lose loads of viewers. Shame.[/QUOTE

Not if he wanted to leave, which I suspect. Not always the soaps choice.

[mariba]

Then if it was his own choice, why don't they just clarify that once and for all that he's really gone for good??! Why to just keep people speculating? Not fair for anyone, not the least for Mike Parr himself.

Regarding emmerdale looking stupid if they 'bring him back '. As they haven't clarified once more that he's dead, I still assume he hasn't left and there's no 'bringing back ' needed.

Very boring episode again - that's why I have all this time to browse the board... zzzz

[mariba]

Then if it was his own choice, why don't they just clarify that once and for all that he's really gone for good??! Why to just keep people speculating? Not fair for anyone, not the least for Mike Parr himself.

Regarding emmerdale looking stupid if they 'bring him back '. As they haven't clarified once more that he's dead, I still assume he hasn't left and there's no 'bringing back ' needed.

Very boring episode again - that's why I have all this time to browse the board... zzzz

[maidmarian]

I think the summer fate has been a success for Emmerdale

http://metro.co.uk/2015/08/07/20-reasons-emmerdales-disaster-was-the-best-week-of-television-drama-ever-5332099/

Have the viewing figures been published
yet? I wonder!
Thats really all the producers are concerned
about!

[Perdita]

The helicopter crash was viewed by 6.4m viewers, Ruby´s death 6.6m.... I don´t know how that relates to usual viewing figures

[maidmarian]

The helicopter crash was viewed by 6.4m viewers, Ruby´s death 6.6m.... I don´t know how that relates to usual viewing figures

Thankyou Perdita.
I tried to find what EE average was - 6-8m
was the answer- per wikipaedia!

For the previous plane crash in 1993 - the
audience was 18m !!

But way back then -soap audiences were much
bigger generally !! And there were less channels
and not the social media there is now!

[maidmarian]

The helicopter crash was viewed by 6.4m viewers, Ruby´s death 6.6m.... I don´t know how that relates to usual viewing figures

Thankyou Perdita.
I tried to find what EE average was - 6-8m
was the answer- per wikipaedia!

For the previous plane crash in 1993 - the
audience was 18m !!

But way back then -soap audiences were much
bigger generally !! And there were less channels
and not the social media there is now!

[kennedyfan86]

Then if it was his own choice, why don't they just clarify that once and for all that he's really gone for good??! Why to just keep people speculating? Not fair for anyone, not the least for Mike Parr himself.

Regarding emmerdale looking stupid if they 'bring him back '. As they haven't clarified once more that he's dead, I still assume he hasn't left and there's no 'bringing back ' needed.

Very boring episode again - that's why I have all this time to browse the board... zzzz

I met someone at a class tonight who read in the weekend paper mags Tha Mike wanted to try new things and that he wants to get rid of the beard and the slicked back greasy hair

[kennedyfan86]

Then if it was his own choice, why don't they just clarify that once and for all that he's really gone for good??! Why to just keep people speculating? Not fair for anyone, not the least for Mike Parr himself.

Regarding emmerdale looking stupid if they 'bring him back '. As they haven't clarified once more that he's dead, I still assume he hasn't left and there's no 'bringing back ' needed.

Very boring episode again - that's why I have all this time to browse the board... zzzz

I met someone at a class tonight who read in the weekend paper mags Tha Mike wanted to try new things and that he wants to get rid of the beard and the slicked back greasy hair

[kennedyfan86]

http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/whats-on/film-news/emmerdale-fans-start-petition-michael-9835145

[lizann]

https://www.change.org/p/emmerdale-bring-back-ross-barton-emmerdale

[Ruffed_lemur]

Then if it was his own choice, why don't they just clarify that once and for all that he's really gone for good??! Why to just keep people speculating? Not fair for anyone, not the least for Mike Parr himself.

Regarding emmerdale looking stupid if they 'bring him back '. As they haven't clarified once more that he's dead, I still assume he hasn't left and there's no 'bringing back ' needed.

Very boring episode again - that's why I have all this time to browse the board... zzzz

I thought he clarified that he had gone himself? Sounded pretty clear to me. Perhaps they will find his body next week?

[Ruffed_lemur]

I met someone at a class tonight who read in the weekend paper mags Tha Mike wanted to try new things and that he wants to get rid of the beard and the slicked back greasy hair

Sounds like he's gone for his own reasons. Good luck to him!

[Telly Watcher]

I met someone at a class tonight who read in the weekend paper mags Tha Mike wanted to try new things and that he wants to get rid of the beard and the slicked back greasy hair

The quoted details were reported in the Daily Star on August 7th and included how Val and Ross came to leave Emmerdale the previous night.

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Emmerdale: Val & Ross bite the dust in soap shock

TWO soap favourites became shock casualties of the Emmerdale helicopter crash last night.

Outrageous drama queen and HIV sufferer Val Pollard (Charlie Hardwick, 54) died after a shard of glass in the fairground’s mirror maze fell on her following the dramatic scenes.

And badboy Ross Barton (Michael Parr, 29) was beaten to a bloody pulp in a vicious attack by his brother Pete (Anthony Quinlan, 30) after he discovered he had been sleeping with his bride-to-be Debbie.

Both shockers had been kept a secret from TV fans in one of the soap’s most dramatic and explosive weeks.

Charlie, who has been on Emmerdale for 12 years and had been commuting from Newcastle to Leeds every week, admitted last night she had spent months wrestling with the decision to leave.

But she said: “I knew I had to go. I have to try to get a bit of my life back.

“I’ve had a suitcase at the end of my bed for 12 years. “I will miss Val and her outrageous behaviour.”

And Charlie revealed her HIV storyline had really played on her mind.

She said: “It was one of the highlights over the years.”

“I knew I had to go. I have to try to get a bit of my life back”

Meanwhile Michael, who played soap villain Ross, let slip earlier this week that he might be on his way out as he was keen to take on other acting roles.

He said he was desperate to change his look and get rid of Ross Barton’s slicked back hair and beard.

However, asked if this meant he was leaving, he teased: “You’ll have to wait and see.”

And of his badboy character, he added: “It’s been fun to play but it was always going to come to a head at some point.”
>

Source: http://www.dailystar.co.uk/showbiz-tv/hot-tv/458008/Val-Ross-soap-Emmerdale


Today (August 11th), the soap news website soapsquawk.co.uk reported details of an interview with Gillian Kearney (Emma) where she talked about her feelings over Ross' disappearance and how she goes to try to visit a body to check and identify if it is Ross or not.

>
Emmerdale interview: Emma Barton’s devastated as police find a body
Gillian Kearney says she’s rocked by the discovery
Tuesday, 11th August 2015

How is Emma doing in the wake of the helicopter tragedy?
She’s not great. It’s been very upsetting, obviously the news of the affair during the wedding was awful too. Since then Ross has gone missing and Debbie’s in hospital. So Emma is beside herself with worry, she thinks Ross has run away because he’s upset. But she associates the news with the revelation of his affair with Debbie, she’s really worried about him.

Does she have any idea where he is?
None at all. She’s more concerned than James who keeps saying that he’s done this before. But her instinct is telling her that this feels different, I think it’s a mother’s intuition.

Why is she so angry when Debbie goes to the memorial?
She’s furious with Debbie because as far as she’s concerned Debbie has split her sons up. If you’ve got boys, I’ve got three brothers, and I can only imagine what would happen if one woman separated them. Sometimes the damage is irrevocable. So Emma associates Debbie with nothing but trouble for her family, so she’s just trying to keep the family together.

Debbie refuses to let Emma look after Moses, how does that make her feel?
It’s like adding insult to injury. There’s a scene between Emma and James where they are looking at photos of the wedding and she’s like, ‘Do you want these because I don’t want to be looking at Debbie’s face?’. As far as Emma’s concerned this is the woman that not only broke both her sons’ hearts but now she won’t let her see her own grandson. It’s Ross and her son that Debbie’s ruined things for.

How are things with James at the moment?
She’s got his support and they are very much a partnership at the moment. They are very happy, so fingers crossed!

What does she think when she finds Ross’ belongings like his phone and wallet?
She’s out of her mind worried. First the car turns up, it’s got his wallet with all his cash and cards inside, when she checks his bank account there’s no money that has been drawn out since the day he disappeared. So she thinks he’s dead, she thinks he’s met an untimely end.

Does she suspect that Debbie has something to do with it?
Yeah, she starts to think that she wouldn’t put it past her so decides she has to have a word with her. At first she goes round to cajole Debbie into saying something, she can see that Debbie’s hiding someone. Then Debbie slips over her own words and that’s when Emma realises it’s Cain. That’s when she just presumes that Cain has murdered Ross.

What does she do next?
She feels like she’s let Ross down enough and James is trying to tell her not to phone the police. But as far as she’s concerned, every day that goes by the clues are going to go missing and Cain’s going to get away with it. She thinks her son is probably dead and she wants to bring Cain to justice. Emma says she’s let Ross down enough in the past and she’s not going to do it again so she goes behind James’ back and calls the police. Finn backs her with that decision.

By the end of the week the police have found a body, how does Emma feel when she hears the news?
She’s absolutely overwhelmed by it. I was exhausted filming all this because it was just one thing after another. The police say they think the body is Ross so by the time she goes to see it and the pull the sheet back, it’s devastating.
>

Source: http://www.soapsquawk.co.uk/news/emmerdale-interview-emma-bartons-devastated-as-police-find-a-body.php#results

[kennedyfan86]

The quoted details were reported in the Daily Star on August 7th and included how Val and Ross came to leave Emmerdale the previous night.

>
Emmerdale: Val & Ross bite the dust in soap shock

TWO soap favourites became shock casualties of the Emmerdale helicopter crash last night.

Outrageous drama queen and HIV sufferer Val Pollard (Charlie Hardwick, 54) died after a shard of glass in the fairground’s mirror maze fell on her following the dramatic scenes.

And badboy Ross Barton (Michael Parr, 29) was beaten to a bloody pulp in a vicious attack by his brother Pete (Anthony Quinlan, 30) after he discovered he had been sleeping with his bride-to-be Debbie.

Both shockers had been kept a secret from TV fans in one of the soap’s most dramatic and explosive weeks.

Charlie, who has been on Emmerdale for 12 years and had been commuting from Newcastle to Leeds every week, admitted last night she had spent months wrestling with the decision to leave.

But she said: “I knew I had to go. I have to try to get a bit of my life back.

“I’ve had a suitcase at the end of my bed for 12 years. “I will miss Val and her outrageous behaviour.”

And Charlie revealed her HIV storyline had really played on her mind.

She said: “It was one of the highlights over the years.”

“I knew I had to go. I have to try to get a bit of my life back”

Meanwhile Michael, who played soap villain Ross, let slip earlier this week that he might be on his way out as he was keen to take on other acting roles.

He said he was desperate to change his look and get rid of Ross Barton’s slicked back hair and beard.

However, asked if this meant he was leaving, he teased: “You’ll have to wait and see.”

And of his badboy character, he added: “It’s been fun to play but it was always going to come to a head at some point.”
>

Source: http://www.dailystar.co.uk/showbiz-tv/hot-tv/458008/Val-Ross-soap-Emmerdale


Today (August 11th), the soap news website soapsquawk.co.uk reported details of an interview with Gillian Kearney (Emma) where she talked about her feelings over Ross' disappearance and how she goes to try to visit a body to check and identify if it is Ross or not.

>
Emmerdale interview: Emma Barton’s devastated as police find a body
Gillian Kearney says she’s rocked by the discovery
Tuesday, 11th August 2015

How is Emma doing in the wake of the helicopter tragedy?
She’s not great. It’s been very upsetting, obviously the news of the affair during the wedding was awful too. Since then Ross has gone missing and Debbie’s in hospital. So Emma is beside herself with worry, she thinks Ross has run away because he’s upset. But she associates the news with the revelation of his affair with Debbie, she’s really worried about him.

Does she have any idea where he is?
None at all. She’s more concerned than James who keeps saying that he’s done this before. But her instinct is telling her that this feels different, I think it’s a mother’s intuition.

Why is she so angry when Debbie goes to the memorial?
She’s furious with Debbie because as far as she’s concerned Debbie has split her sons up. If you’ve got boys, I’ve got three brothers, and I can only imagine what would happen if one woman separated them. Sometimes the damage is irrevocable. So Emma associates Debbie with nothing but trouble for her family, so she’s just trying to keep the family together.

Debbie refuses to let Emma look after Moses, how does that make her feel?
It’s like adding insult to injury. There’s a scene between Emma and James where they are looking at photos of the wedding and she’s like, ‘Do you want these because I don’t want to be looking at Debbie’s face?’. As far as Emma’s concerned this is the woman that not only broke both her sons’ hearts but now she won’t let her see her own grandson. It’s Ross and her son that Debbie’s ruined things for.

How are things with James at the moment?
She’s got his support and they are very much a partnership at the moment. They are very happy, so fingers crossed!

What does she think when she finds Ross’ belongings like his phone and wallet?
She’s out of her mind worried. First the car turns up, it’s got his wallet with all his cash and cards inside, when she checks his bank account there’s no money that has been drawn out since the day he disappeared. So she thinks he’s dead, she thinks he’s met an untimely end.

Does she suspect that Debbie has something to do with it?
Yeah, she starts to think that she wouldn’t put it past her so decides she has to have a word with her. At first she goes round to cajole Debbie into saying something, she can see that Debbie’s hiding someone. Then Debbie slips over her own words and that’s when Emma realises it’s Cain. That’s when she just presumes that Cain has murdered Ross.

What does she do next?
She feels like she’s let Ross down enough and James is trying to tell her not to phone the police. But as far as she’s concerned, every day that goes by the clues are going to go missing and Cain’s going to get away with it. She thinks her son is probably dead and she wants to bring Cain to justice. Emma says she’s let Ross down enough in the past and she’s not going to do it again so she goes behind James’ back and calls the police. Finn backs her with that decision.

By the end of the week the police have found a body, how does Emma feel when she hears the news?
She’s absolutely overwhelmed by it. I was exhausted filming all this because it was just one thing after another. The police say they think the body is Ross so by the time she goes to see it and the pull the sheet back, it’s devastating.
>

Source: http://www.soapsquawk.co.uk/news/emmerdale-interview-emma-bartons-devastated-as-police-find-a-body.php#results

Ah yes, that'll be the article from the paper she was talking about. I'm devastated, I loved Ross. I guess we can only look forward to Mike in new things now

[kennedyfan86]

The quoted details were reported in the Daily Star on August 7th and included how Val and Ross came to leave Emmerdale the previous night.

>
Emmerdale: Val & Ross bite the dust in soap shock

TWO soap favourites became shock casualties of the Emmerdale helicopter crash last night.

Outrageous drama queen and HIV sufferer Val Pollard (Charlie Hardwick, 54) died after a shard of glass in the fairground’s mirror maze fell on her following the dramatic scenes.

And badboy Ross Barton (Michael Parr, 29) was beaten to a bloody pulp in a vicious attack by his brother Pete (Anthony Quinlan, 30) after he discovered he had been sleeping with his bride-to-be Debbie.

Both shockers had been kept a secret from TV fans in one of the soap’s most dramatic and explosive weeks.

Charlie, who has been on Emmerdale for 12 years and had been commuting from Newcastle to Leeds every week, admitted last night she had spent months wrestling with the decision to leave.

But she said: “I knew I had to go. I have to try to get a bit of my life back.

“I’ve had a suitcase at the end of my bed for 12 years. “I will miss Val and her outrageous behaviour.”

And Charlie revealed her HIV storyline had really played on her mind.

She said: “It was one of the highlights over the years.”

“I knew I had to go. I have to try to get a bit of my life back”

Meanwhile Michael, who played soap villain Ross, let slip earlier this week that he might be on his way out as he was keen to take on other acting roles.

He said he was desperate to change his look and get rid of Ross Barton’s slicked back hair and beard.

However, asked if this meant he was leaving, he teased: “You’ll have to wait and see.”

And of his badboy character, he added: “It’s been fun to play but it was always going to come to a head at some point.”
>

Source: http://www.dailystar.co.uk/showbiz-tv/hot-tv/458008/Val-Ross-soap-Emmerdale


Today (August 11th), the soap news website soapsquawk.co.uk reported details of an interview with Gillian Kearney (Emma) where she talked about her feelings over Ross' disappearance and how she goes to try to visit a body to check and identify if it is Ross or not.

>
Emmerdale interview: Emma Barton’s devastated as police find a body
Gillian Kearney says she’s rocked by the discovery
Tuesday, 11th August 2015

How is Emma doing in the wake of the helicopter tragedy?
She’s not great. It’s been very upsetting, obviously the news of the affair during the wedding was awful too. Since then Ross has gone missing and Debbie’s in hospital. So Emma is beside herself with worry, she thinks Ross has run away because he’s upset. But she associates the news with the revelation of his affair with Debbie, she’s really worried about him.

Does she have any idea where he is?
None at all. She’s more concerned than James who keeps saying that he’s done this before. But her instinct is telling her that this feels different, I think it’s a mother’s intuition.

Why is she so angry when Debbie goes to the memorial?
She’s furious with Debbie because as far as she’s concerned Debbie has split her sons up. If you’ve got boys, I’ve got three brothers, and I can only imagine what would happen if one woman separated them. Sometimes the damage is irrevocable. So Emma associates Debbie with nothing but trouble for her family, so she’s just trying to keep the family together.

Debbie refuses to let Emma look after Moses, how does that make her feel?
It’s like adding insult to injury. There’s a scene between Emma and James where they are looking at photos of the wedding and she’s like, ‘Do you want these because I don’t want to be looking at Debbie’s face?’. As far as Emma’s concerned this is the woman that not only broke both her sons’ hearts but now she won’t let her see her own grandson. It’s Ross and her son that Debbie’s ruined things for.

How are things with James at the moment?
She’s got his support and they are very much a partnership at the moment. They are very happy, so fingers crossed!

What does she think when she finds Ross’ belongings like his phone and wallet?
She’s out of her mind worried. First the car turns up, it’s got his wallet with all his cash and cards inside, when she checks his bank account there’s no money that has been drawn out since the day he disappeared. So she thinks he’s dead, she thinks he’s met an untimely end.

Does she suspect that Debbie has something to do with it?
Yeah, she starts to think that she wouldn’t put it past her so decides she has to have a word with her. At first she goes round to cajole Debbie into saying something, she can see that Debbie’s hiding someone. Then Debbie slips over her own words and that’s when Emma realises it’s Cain. That’s when she just presumes that Cain has murdered Ross.

What does she do next?
She feels like she’s let Ross down enough and James is trying to tell her not to phone the police. But as far as she’s concerned, every day that goes by the clues are going to go missing and Cain’s going to get away with it. She thinks her son is probably dead and she wants to bring Cain to justice. Emma says she’s let Ross down enough in the past and she’s not going to do it again so she goes behind James’ back and calls the police. Finn backs her with that decision.

By the end of the week the police have found a body, how does Emma feel when she hears the news?
She’s absolutely overwhelmed by it. I was exhausted filming all this because it was just one thing after another. The police say they think the body is Ross so by the time she goes to see it and the pull the sheet back, it’s devastating.
>

Source: http://www.soapsquawk.co.uk/news/emmerdale-interview-emma-bartons-devastated-as-police-find-a-body.php#results

Ah yes, that'll be the article from the paper she was talking about. I'm devastated, I loved Ross. I guess we can only look forward to Mike in new things now

[rossfan]

I still don't think Michael Parr has left.

Regards to what was said in that first article

"He said he was desperate to change his look and get rid of Ross Barton’s slicked back hair and beard."

That could be a request for Ross' appearence to just change a bit, which to be fair they did in the last few episodes. After Ross' jump into the water, his hair went curly.

However, asked if this meant he was leaving, he teased: “You’ll have to wait and see.”

This certainly doesn't confirm he has left

also

And of his badboy character, he added: “It’s been fun to play but it was always going to come to a head at some point.”

This bit could just simply mean Ross will re-evaluate his life and look to change for development.

None of what was written confirms he has left.

[Serena Williams]

We will find out next week whether Ross is really dead or not. I doubt it.

[Serena Williams]

Ah yes, that'll be the article from the paper she was talking about. I'm devastated, I loved Ross. I guess we can only look forward to Mike in new things now

I still so not believe Michael Parr quit I bet the body found is not Ross body. I feel.there is a twist coming on. We will find out the truth next week Friday.

[Serena Williams]

Ah yes, that'll be the article from the paper she was talking about. I'm devastated, I loved Ross. I guess we can only look forward to Mike in new things now

I still so not believe Michael Parr quit I bet the body found is not Ross body. I feel.there is a twist coming on. We will find out the truth next week Friday.

[kennedyfan86]

I still so not believe Michael Parr quit I bet the body found is not Ross body. I feel.there is a twist coming on. We will find out the truth next week Friday.

Yeah I've been thinking plot twist up until that article. They certainly have to play us and wouldn't reveal it anyway. Mike threw put what I thought was a tease up on Twitter but we don't know if it was or not. If the body isn't Ross then I think he'll make a reappearance at Christmas when Debbie goes away. I wonder why James and Emma sleep together after the mortuary though, that sounds like a comfort thing

[kennedyfan86]

I still so not believe Michael Parr quit I bet the body found is not Ross body. I feel.there is a twist coming on. We will find out the truth next week Friday.

Yeah I've been thinking plot twist up until that article. They certainly have to play us and wouldn't reveal it anyway. Mike threw put what I thought was a tease up on Twitter but we don't know if it was or not. If the body isn't Ross then I think he'll make a reappearance at Christmas when Debbie goes away. I wonder why James and Emma sleep together after the mortuary though, that sounds like a comfort thing

[Telly Watcher]

I still don't think Michael Parr has left.

Regards to what was said in that first article

\"He said he was desperate to change his look and get rid of Ross Barton’s slicked back hair and beard.\"

That could be a request for Ross' appearence to just change a bit, which to be fair they did in the last few episodes. After Ross' jump into the water, his hair went curly.

However, asked if this meant he was leaving, he teased: “You’ll have to wait and see.”

This certainly doesn't confirm he has left

also

And of his badboy character, he added: “It’s been fun to play but it was always going to come to a head at some point.”

This bit could just simply mean Ross will re-evaluate his life and look to change for development.

None of what was written confirms he has left. None of what was written confirms he has left.

I agree that Mike Parr's interview quotes in the Daily Star from August 7th are unclear and could have double meanings, but he must have confidentiality clauses in his Emmerdale contract which limit his media release of privileged insider info regarding scripts and storylines.

As kennedyfan86 wrote before in this thread on 09-08-15,


Actors are good at keeping secrets, they're lying for a living to start with so lying to viewers and media is a sinch.

This isn't the only newspaper article which he has been in recently. Another one appeared in the Daily Star on August 3rd, in which he seems really fed up with his bad boy role in Emmerdale, as it has become a reason for at least some of his fans to hate him. He has played Ross now for about 2 years and maybe it is time for him to try something else? Having said that, he does not seem to have any clear acting or other role lined up at present, as indicated by his Twitter account.

>
Emmerdale: Bad guy under fire as fans call Ross the 'scumbag'
MICHAEL Parr claims fans have stopped loving his soap villain character Ross Barton and call him “a scumbag”.

TV viewers will see Ross try to wreck his brother Pete’s wedding day in tonight’s episode.

He has been having a secret fling with bride-to-be Debbie Dingle (Charley Webb, 27).

And a recording of the pair talking about their romps gets played at the reception at the village hall just before a helicopter crashes on top of the guests.

Bosses have teased that “two or more” stars from the ITV show will perish as a result.

Parr, 28, claims that until recently, fans had loved him being a baddie but now they hate him.

He says: “Whenever I went out I was ‘Ross The Boss’.

But now people call Ross ‘a scumbag and a snake’.”

The soap star claims he will get rid of his “Ross look” when he leaves Emmerdale.

He reveals: “When I leave I want to get rid of the hair and change my look as much as possible to get more work in the future.”
>

Source: http://www.dailystar.co.uk/showbiz-tv/hot-tv/457381/Emmerdale-Bad-guy-under-fire-as-fans-call-Ross-the-scumbag


His Twitter account follows up on this on August 10th:

>
Michael Parr ‏@MikeParrActor Aug 10

Only just realised what it means when you call someone a scumbag. You're calling them a condom. Absolutely rank. #mindblown
>

Source: https://twitter.com/MikeParrActor/with_replies


The Emmerdale episode spoilers say Emma reports Ross missing to the police (on Friday 21st). I'd expect her to give them a description and/or photo of Ross, plus Emmerdale village is so small and seems to have a regular local set of policemen who would probably know Ross in person already. Cain gets told by the police on Friday 21st August that a body has been found and the police think that the body is Ross'. I would have thought that the police would be more-or-less sure in thinking the body is Ross' for them to say this, particularly when the body would be only two weeks old then if it is Ross'. It isn't clear if Emma goes to check the body for identification purposes on the same day but it must be this or soon after the following week. Emma's visit to identify the body should be just a confirmatory formality that it is Ross, we'll see. But this is Emmerdale soapland with PC Plod Emmerdale and secrets and surprises around most corners.

I too want Ross to be alive, but the signs aren't too good now for that it seems. Time will tell if Ross gets another chance through resurrection or is just another young Emmerdale bad boy gone too soon.

[kennedyfan86]

I agree that Mike Parr's interview quotes in the Daily Star from August 7th are unclear and could have double meanings, but he must have confidentiality clauses in his Emmerdale contract which limit his media release of privileged insider info regarding scripts and storylines.

As kennedyfan86 wrote before in this thread on 09-08-15,



This isn't the only newspaper article which he has been in recently. Another one appeared in the Daily Star on August 3rd, in which he seems really fed up with his bad boy role in Emmerdale, as it has become a reason for at least some of his fans to hate him. He has played Ross now for about 2 years and maybe it is time for him to try something else? Having said that, he does not seem to have any clear acting or other role lined up at present, as indicated by his Twitter account.

>
Emmerdale: Bad guy under fire as fans call Ross the 'scumbag'
MICHAEL Parr claims fans have stopped loving his soap villain character Ross Barton and call him “a scumbag”.

TV viewers will see Ross try to wreck his brother Pete’s wedding day in tonight’s episode.

He has been having a secret fling with bride-to-be Debbie Dingle (Charley Webb, 27).

And a recording of the pair talking about their romps gets played at the reception at the village hall just before a helicopter crashes on top of the guests.

Bosses have teased that “two or more” stars from the ITV show will perish as a result.

Parr, 28, claims that until recently, fans had loved him being a baddie but now they hate him.

He says: “Whenever I went out I was ‘Ross The Boss’.

But now people call Ross ‘a scumbag and a snake’.”

The soap star claims he will get rid of his “Ross look” when he leaves Emmerdale.

He reveals: “When I leave I want to get rid of the hair and change my look as much as possible to get more work in the future.”
>

Source: http://www.dailystar.co.uk/showbiz-tv/hot-tv/457381/Emmerdale-Bad-guy-under-fire-as-fans-call-Ross-the-scumbag


His Twitter account follows up on this on August 10th:

>
Michael Parr ‏@MikeParrActor Aug 10

Only just realised what it means when you call someone a scumbag. You're calling them a condom. Absolutely rank. #mindblown
>

Source: https://twitter.com/MikeParrActor/with_replies


The Emmerdale episode spoilers say Emma reports Ross missing to the police on Wednesday (19th). I'd expect her to give them a description and/or photo of Ross, plus Emmerdale village is so small and seems to have a regular local set of policemen who would probably know Ross in person already. Cain gets told by the police on Friday 21st August that a body has been found and the police think that the body is Ross'. I would have thought that the police would be more-or-less sure in thinking the body is Ross' for them to say this, particularly when the body would be only two weeks old then if it is Ross'. It isn't clear if Emma goes to check the body for identification purposes on the same day but it must be this or soon after the following week. Emma's visit to identify the body should be just a confirmatory formality that it is Ross, we'll see. But this is Emmerdale soapland with PC Plod Emmerdale and secrets and surprises around most corners.

I too want Ross to be alive, but the signs aren't too good now for that it seems. Time will tell if Ross gets another chance through resurrection or is just another young Emmerdale bad boy gone too soon.

They're told about the body in the Friday ep and go on the Monday ep to ID.

Mike also said on This Morning that bad guys are better to play, but maybe he does want to play a nice part for a little change. They could turn Ross good, it looked like they were going to for Donna, and Debbie anyway. All Ross wants is to be loved and have everything he didn't have growing up, the warmth, affection and influence of a woman to care for him. He can get to know Emma, but their relationship hasn't exactly gone like that despite his desperation for her to stick around. They only seemed to have one reunion evening with her and the three sins in which they reminisced, more of that would've been good, instead of her coming in acting like a mum who only popped to the shop and wasn't absent for 22 years. They didn't explore the repairing of Ross and Emma's relationship enough either after he discovered she had tried to smother him when he was 2. I expected the entrance of Emma into the show to be played out differently to what it has been so it's been quite disappointing really how that's gone

[kennedyfan86]

I agree that Mike Parr's interview quotes in the Daily Star from August 7th are unclear and could have double meanings, but he must have confidentiality clauses in his Emmerdale contract which limit his media release of privileged insider info regarding scripts and storylines.

As kennedyfan86 wrote before in this thread on 09-08-15,



This isn't the only newspaper article which he has been in recently. Another one appeared in the Daily Star on August 3rd, in which he seems really fed up with his bad boy role in Emmerdale, as it has become a reason for at least some of his fans to hate him. He has played Ross now for about 2 years and maybe it is time for him to try something else? Having said that, he does not seem to have any clear acting or other role lined up at present, as indicated by his Twitter account.

>
Emmerdale: Bad guy under fire as fans call Ross the 'scumbag'
MICHAEL Parr claims fans have stopped loving his soap villain character Ross Barton and call him “a scumbag”.

TV viewers will see Ross try to wreck his brother Pete’s wedding day in tonight’s episode.

He has been having a secret fling with bride-to-be Debbie Dingle (Charley Webb, 27).

And a recording of the pair talking about their romps gets played at the reception at the village hall just before a helicopter crashes on top of the guests.

Bosses have teased that “two or more” stars from the ITV show will perish as a result.

Parr, 28, claims that until recently, fans had loved him being a baddie but now they hate him.

He says: “Whenever I went out I was ‘Ross The Boss’.

But now people call Ross ‘a scumbag and a snake’.”

The soap star claims he will get rid of his “Ross look” when he leaves Emmerdale.

He reveals: “When I leave I want to get rid of the hair and change my look as much as possible to get more work in the future.”
>

Source: http://www.dailystar.co.uk/showbiz-tv/hot-tv/457381/Emmerdale-Bad-guy-under-fire-as-fans-call-Ross-the-scumbag


His Twitter account follows up on this on August 10th:

>
Michael Parr ‏@MikeParrActor Aug 10

Only just realised what it means when you call someone a scumbag. You're calling them a condom. Absolutely rank. #mindblown
>

Source: https://twitter.com/MikeParrActor/with_replies


The Emmerdale episode spoilers say Emma reports Ross missing to the police on Wednesday (19th). I'd expect her to give them a description and/or photo of Ross, plus Emmerdale village is so small and seems to have a regular local set of policemen who would probably know Ross in person already. Cain gets told by the police on Friday 21st August that a body has been found and the police think that the body is Ross'. I would have thought that the police would be more-or-less sure in thinking the body is Ross' for them to say this, particularly when the body would be only two weeks old then if it is Ross'. It isn't clear if Emma goes to check the body for identification purposes on the same day but it must be this or soon after the following week. Emma's visit to identify the body should be just a confirmatory formality that it is Ross, we'll see. But this is Emmerdale soapland with PC Plod Emmerdale and secrets and surprises around most corners.

I too want Ross to be alive, but the signs aren't too good now for that it seems. Time will tell if Ross gets another chance through resurrection or is just another young Emmerdale bad boy gone too soon.

They're told about the body in the Friday ep and go on the Monday ep to ID.

Mike also said on This Morning that bad guys are better to play, but maybe he does want to play a nice part for a little change. They could turn Ross good, it looked like they were going to for Donna, and Debbie anyway. All Ross wants is to be loved and have everything he didn't have growing up, the warmth, affection and influence of a woman to care for him. He can get to know Emma, but their relationship hasn't exactly gone like that despite his desperation for her to stick around. They only seemed to have one reunion evening with her and the three sons in which they reminisced, more of that would've been good, instead of her coming in acting like a mum who only popped to the shop and wasn't absent for 22 years. They didn't explore the repairing of Ross and Emma's relationship enough either after he discovered she had tried to smother him when he was 2. I expected the entrance of Emma into the show to be played out differently to what it has been so it's been quite disappointing really how that's gone

[mariba]

dupl

[mariba]

I wouldn't trust any papers-I never have. We saw what the reporter interviewing Bob in the cafe did to him!! Another clue??

Yes-everything points to that direction now that Ross is dead.
Some of viewers want him gone for good, but most of us want him back. I'm one of those-as already few episodes without him have been so boring. There's nothing in it, when Val is gone too with her funny lines, and there's no Nico+Jimmy either. Ross was funny too with his bad boy attitude and few good lines every now and then ;)

So-if Emmerdale team didn't know how popular he is, then they are really stupid and don't deserve any prizes in the future either. They are certainly going to lose loads of viewers if he's gone. I won't bother watching either as I'm yawning already.
We all understand that actors want to try new things too, but as a young actor, maybe you shouldn't be too hasty to close doors permanently behind you? The same with any job. But to leave the door open to go back. So-even if he was planning to go away from Ross character, why would he go permanently? Few weeks more and after getting his revenge(which Pete is actually suffering already..)and showing everyone that he's alive-he could just decide that he wants to leave the village for a bit and pack his bag and go.
And-if he really wanted to kill Ross character off himself and then have no job after..well, then I have no words.

[mariba]

Yeah I've been thinking plot twist up until that article. They certainly have to play us and wouldn't reveal it anyway. Mike threw put what I thought was a tease up on Twitter but we don't know if it was or not. If the body isn't Ross then I think he'll make a reappearance at Christmas when Debbie goes away. I wonder why James and Emma sleep together after the mortuary though, that sounds like a comfort thing

It could be for comfort too as they are relieved it wasn't Ross and are still worried of him.

[mariba]

Yeah I've been thinking plot twist up until that article. They certainly have to play us and wouldn't reveal it anyway. Mike threw put what I thought was a tease up on Twitter but we don't know if it was or not. If the body isn't Ross then I think he'll make a reappearance at Christmas when Debbie goes away. I wonder why James and Emma sleep together after the mortuary though, that sounds like a comfort thing

It could be for comfort too as they are relieved it wasn't Ross and are still worried of him.

[kennedyfan86]

It could be for comfort too as they are relieved it wasn't Ross and are still worried of him.

True. God I hate it all, roll on next week so we can find out

[kennedyfan86]

It could be for comfort too as they are relieved it wasn't Ross and are still worried of him.

True. God I hate it all, roll on next week so we can find out

[tammyy2j]

Emmerdale has everyone talking about Ross Barton I don't remember this for another soap character in recent years :p whether he is dead or not

[tammyy2j]

Can this thread be merged with original Ross Barton thread please

[Perdita]

Similar discussions going on on Neighbours when Kate got shot and some did not believe it and petition was set up to bring her back :wall:

[mariba]

I'm saying one more thing about Ross and this speculation around him-then we'll just see...
I've said this before, but IF he is gone 100% then why couldn't the producer step out and confirm that he's gone and put the end on this speculation.
Because she hasn't and all the rumours going round, I believe like so many, that Ross will be back.
And if he is gone, I wouldn't watch it in any case as I'm so annoyed of the way they are treating us viewers as fools.So he better not be dead.. ;)

[mariba]

I'm saying one more thing about Ross and this speculation around him-then we'll just see...
I've said this before, but IF he is gone 100% then why couldn't the producer step out and confirm that he's gone and put the end on this speculation.
Because she hasn't and all the rumours going round, I believe like so many, that Ross will be back.
And if he is gone, I wouldn't watch it in any case as I'm so annoyed of the way they are treating us viewers as fools.So he better not be dead.. ;)

[Dalesfan]

I so hope this is true! Ross needs to be alive. Nothing against you OP but it's hard to believe things on internet.

There is a lot of speculation going around. And I'm leaning more to him being alive. Maybe about 60/40 lol. Michael Parr was seen quite a few times at the studios over the last few weeks. After they wrapped on SummerFate

[Dalesfan]

I so hope this is true! Ross needs to be alive. Nothing against you OP but it's hard to believe things on internet.

There is a lot of speculation going around. And I'm leaning more to him being alive. Maybe about 60/40 lol. Michael Parr was seen quite a few times at the studios over the last few weeks. After they wrapped on SummerFate

[Telly Watcher]

Mike Parr's Twitter account suggests he has just gone/is going on holiday and sounds very fed up that people are tweeting him/asking questions about Emmerdale.

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Michael Parr ?@MikeParrActor Aug 10

"I'm going on my holidays!" "Oh anywhere nice?" No I found somewhere I thought was really crap and booked it. Stupid conversation questions
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https://twitter.com/mikeparractor

However, I came across something this afternoon which might explain things.

Mike Parr has a (minor) part named 'G' in the new movie 'Dark Ascension', made this year at Pinewood Studios, Bucks, and on location for some parts at Waterloo station, London, and Hong Kong.

The film is due for release in October 2015 and is about the Afterlife and a battle between Heaven and Hell. There are two film sequels planned.

Maybe this explains why Ross left Emmerdale in such a quick and pointless way?

First off, Mike Parr gets out of Emmerdale very quickly and easily to build his film career on the bigger screen.

Second off, Emmerdale gets the chance for massive publicity and viewer figures over one of its top characters leaving suddenly, hence the Cain meets Abel (farmer meets shepherd) scenes where brother Pete kills brother Ross and hides the body in the woods, all over very quickly and simply.

In Emmerdale on August 11th, when Finn and Pete are talking about looking after Moses and then about Ross, the conversation goes:

Finn: "Do you reckon he's ever coming back?"

Pete: "How would I know? It's not as if he ever confided in me is it?"

This is a very similar storyline to that in the Bible when God asked Cain where Abel was (after Cain had killed Abel and God knew this), to which Cain answers God by saying "Am I my brother's keeper?".

Coincidence or what?

mariba wrote here today, "I've said this before, but IF he is gone 100% then why couldn't the producer step out and confirm that he's gone and put the end on this speculation."


I've said this before, but IF he is gone 100% then why couldn't the producer step out and confirm that he's gone and put the end on this speculation.

My answer to that question is that I suppose the longer Emmerdale can keep the viewers wondering about whether Ross is dead or not, the greater the viewing figures for now for each Emmerdale episode until we know if he's dead for sure.

Anyway, it looks like Mike Parr really might have left Emmerdale whilst he goes on holiday and comes back to be a film actor. If so, good luck to Mike for the future in film-making or whatever he wants to do next.

More film info at imdb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1643249/

Cast list source at imdb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1643249/fullcredits?ref_=tt_cl_sm#cast

[Ruffed_lemur]

I'm saying one more thing about Ross and this speculation around him-then we'll just see...
I've said this before, but IF he is gone 100% then why couldn't the producer step out and confirm that he's gone and put the end on this speculation.
Because she hasn't and all the rumours going round, I believe like so many, that Ross will be back.
And if he is gone, I wouldn't watch it in any case as I'm so annoyed of the way they are treating us viewers as fools.So he better not be dead.. ;)

I would guess they're enjoying the viewers reactions and interest. So why spoil it? I don't think Ross will be back, and I hope we find out soon. He could always re-appear as a ghost though!

[kennedyfan86]

Mike Parr's Twitter account suggests he has just gone/is going on holiday and sounds very fed up that people are tweeting him/asking questions about Emmerdale.

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Michael Parr ?@MikeParrActor Aug 10

\"I'm going on my holidays!\" \"Oh anywhere nice?\" No I found somewhere I thought was really crap and booked it. Stupid conversation questions
>

https://twitter.com/mikeparractor

However, I came across something this afternoon which might explain things.

Mike Parr has a (minor) part named 'G' in the new movie 'Dark Ascension', made this year at Pinewood Studios, Bucks, and on location for some parts at Waterloo station, London, and Hong Kong.

The film is due for release in October 2015 and is about the Afterlife and a battle between Heaven and Hell. There are two film sequels planned.

Maybe this explains why Ross left Emmerdale in such a quick and pointless way?

First off, Mike Parr gets out of Emmerdale very quickly and easily to build his film career on the bigger screen.

Second off, Emmerdale gets the chance for massive publicity and viewer figures over one of its top characters leaving suddenly, hence the Cain meets Abel (farmer meets shepherd) scenes where brother Pete kills brother Ross and hides the body in the woods, all over very quickly and simply.

In Emmerdale on August 11th, when Finn and Pete are talking about looking after Moses and then about Ross, the conversation goes:

Finn: \"Do you reckon he's ever coming back?\"

Pete: \"How would I know? It's not as if he ever confided in me is it?\"

This is a very similar storyline to that in the Bible when God asked Cain where Abel was (after Cain had killed Abel and God knew this), to which Cain answers God by saying \"Am I my brother's keeper?\".

Coincidence or what?

mariba wrote here today, \"I've said this before, but IF he is gone 100% then why couldn't the producer step out and confirm that he's gone and put the end on this speculation.\"



My answer to that question is that I suppose the longer Emmerdale can keep the viewers wondering about whether Ross is dead or not, the greater the viewing figures for now for each Emmerdale episode until we know if he's dead for sure.

Anyway, it looks like Mike Parr really might have left Emmerdale whilst he goes on holiday and comes back to be a film actor. If so, good luck to Mike for the future in film-making or whatever he wants to do next.

More film info at imdb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1643249/

Cast list source at imdb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1643249/fullcredits?ref_=tt_cl_sm#cast

I don't think Mike is fed up, I don't think that conversation was even in connection with the show.
He seems a very nice guy and would welcome any interest from fans, I think he's being asked a lot when he's out and about what's happening, I'm sure the man would just like a bit of peace holiday or no holiday, but at least he knows he's immensely liked which I'm sure he appreciates, least he knows he's wanted as an actor.

Kate Oates will be loving all the interest in the show, seems the type, she's definitely engineered it so all this speculation goes on and she can't be that much of a fool that she doesn't know Ross is one of the best characters she has in her show and that Mike is one of the most popular actors alongside Danny Miller, Adam Thomas etc., so pretty sure there's still mysteries in that magic bag of hers

[kennedyfan86]

Mike Parr's Twitter account suggests he has just gone/is going on holiday and sounds very fed up that people are tweeting him/asking questions about Emmerdale.

>
Michael Parr ?@MikeParrActor Aug 10

\"I'm going on my holidays!\" \"Oh anywhere nice?\" No I found somewhere I thought was really crap and booked it. Stupid conversation questions
>

https://twitter.com/mikeparractor

However, I came across something this afternoon which might explain things.

Mike Parr has a (minor) part named 'G' in the new movie 'Dark Ascension', made this year at Pinewood Studios, Bucks, and on location for some parts at Waterloo station, London, and Hong Kong.

The film is due for release in October 2015 and is about the Afterlife and a battle between Heaven and Hell. There are two film sequels planned.

Maybe this explains why Ross left Emmerdale in such a quick and pointless way?

First off, Mike Parr gets out of Emmerdale very quickly and easily to build his film career on the bigger screen.

Second off, Emmerdale gets the chance for massive publicity and viewer figures over one of its top characters leaving suddenly, hence the Cain meets Abel (farmer meets shepherd) scenes where brother Pete kills brother Ross and hides the body in the woods, all over very quickly and simply.

In Emmerdale on August 11th, when Finn and Pete are talking about looking after Moses and then about Ross, the conversation goes:

Finn: \"Do you reckon he's ever coming back?\"

Pete: \"How would I know? It's not as if he ever confided in me is it?\"

This is a very similar storyline to that in the Bible when God asked Cain where Abel was (after Cain had killed Abel and God knew this), to which Cain answers God by saying \"Am I my brother's keeper?\".

Coincidence or what?

mariba wrote here today, \"I've said this before, but IF he is gone 100% then why couldn't the producer step out and confirm that he's gone and put the end on this speculation.\"



My answer to that question is that I suppose the longer Emmerdale can keep the viewers wondering about whether Ross is dead or not, the greater the viewing figures for now for each Emmerdale episode until we know if he's dead for sure.

Anyway, it looks like Mike Parr really might have left Emmerdale whilst he goes on holiday and comes back to be a film actor. If so, good luck to Mike for the future in film-making or whatever he wants to do next.

More film info at imdb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1643249/

Cast list source at imdb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1643249/fullcredits?ref_=tt_cl_sm#cast

I don't think Mike is fed up, I don't think that conversation was even in connection with the show.
He seems a very nice guy and would welcome any interest from fans, I think he's being asked a lot when he's out and about what's happening, I'm sure the man would just like a bit of peace holiday or no holiday, but at least he knows he's immensely liked which I'm sure he appreciates, least he knows he's wanted as an actor.

Kate Oates will be loving all the interest in the show, seems the type, she's definitely engineered it so all this speculation goes on and she can't be that much of a fool that she doesn't know Ross is one of the best characters she has in her show and that Mike is one of the most popular actors alongside Danny Miller, Adam Thomas etc., so pretty sure there's still mysteries in that magic bag of hers

[Telly Watcher]

I don't think Mike is fed up, I don't think that conversation was even in connection with the show.
He seems a very nice guy and would welcome any interest from fans, I think he's being asked a lot when he's out and about what's happening, I'm sure the man would just like a bit of peace holiday or no holiday, but at least he knows he's immensely liked which I'm sure he appreciates, least he knows he's wanted as an actor.

Kate Oates will be loving all the interest in the show, seems the type, she's definitely engineered it so all this speculation goes on and she can't be that much of a fool that she doesn't know Ross is one of the best characters she has in her show and that Mike is one of the most popular actors alongside Danny Miller, Adam Thomas etc., so pretty sure there's still mysteries in that magic bag of hers

I reckon Mike Parr has to be one of the most talked-about people in Britain at the moment and one of the most recognisable, particularly in the North-West. I imagine that he's bombarded with attention wherever he goes. One friendly Twitter poster wrote "Balaclava a must" needed for him when going around Yorkshire towns for now. In a recent interview with the Daily Star (published August 3rd), he claimed that fans had loved him being a baddie until recently but now they hate him, and that “Whenever I went out I was ‘Ross The Boss’. But now people call Ross ‘a scumbag and a snake’". He also said how he wants to "get rid of the hair and change my look as much as possible to get more work in the future", as if to say that the bad boy role in Emmerdale has run its course personally and professionally and he is tired of it. I can only imagine how much this feeling is influenced by the attention from the large number of people who regularly see him on primetime TV and the adverse reactions arising from his Emmerdale bad boy role and storylines.

I too expect that he's exhausted and needs a holiday. Matthew Wolfenden (David) and Charley Webb (Debbie) mentioned in this week's OK magazine that filming for Emmerdale has been involving 12-hour days, five days a week, and I can only guess that Mike Parr has been doing the same, maybe even more as it seems he was working on his last scenes before his apparent Emmerdale character exit in the woods (to be confirmed in a future show episode/spoiler interview, but I think right now that Ross really will be found to be dead).

I agree that Mike Parr comes across as being a nice guy. Other Emmerdale actors have told of how much fun he can be in person. His online writings show he is more than capable of acting the lad, making laddish comments and playing up the bad boy image when he wants, as well as his good side.

As I posted earlier, it looks like Mike Parr really might have left Emmerdale whilst he goes on holiday and comes back to be a film actor. If so, good luck to Mike for the future in film-making or whatever he wants to do next.

[mariba]

Telly Watcher and Ruffed-lemur- you spend awful lot of time here writing and speculating about Ross-the character you seemingly don't even care that much whether he's gone or not...Just wondering why?

I saw totally different interview with Mike Parr(very recent) where he didn't seem tired to play Ross at all but quite opposite-really enjoyed his character, plus didn't give any indication that he had any plans leaving. This was just before the disaster week. And about his hair he said that he likes it both ways-curly when he wants a quiet night out and then combed back other times..Nothing about being annoyed with his greasy(?) hair..It doesn't look greasy anyway. He also enjoyed Ross's complex character and so on. Seems like a really nice lad. Must be difficult for him at the moment..as some people are weird, they can't separate the fiction from reality and think they see Ross when they see Mike Parr! :D I assume Cain/Jeff Hordley must have had the same problem..
That's the part of being an actor-you just have to learn to live with it. He also said, Ross is not a problem for him on his free time as he can easily switch off but I'd say yes, this speculation is something different..no wonder he needs to get away for a bit.

We can only wait and see what happens.

[mariba]

Telly Watcher and Ruffed-lemur- you spend awful lot of time here writing and speculating about Ross-the character you seemingly don't even care that much whether he's gone or not...Just wondering why?

I saw totally different interview with Mike Parr(very recent) where he didn't seem tired to play Ross at all but quite opposite-really enjoyed his character, plus didn't give any indication that he had any plans leaving. This was just before the disaster week. And about his hair he said that he likes it both ways-curly when he wants a quiet night out and then combed back other times..Nothing about being annoyed with his greasy(?) hair..It doesn't look greasy anyway. He also enjoyed Ross's complex character and so on. Seems like a really nice lad. Must be difficult for him at the moment..as some people are weird, they can't separate the fiction from reality and think they see Ross when they see Mike Parr! :D I assume Cain/Jeff Hordley must have had the same problem..
That's the part of being an actor-you just have to learn to live with it. He also said, Ross is not a problem for him on his free time as he can easily switch off but I'd say yes, this speculation is something different..no wonder he needs to get away for a bit.

We can only wait and see what happens.

[Dalesfan]

Wouldn't take what is said in newspapers seriously. You just have to look at twitter the night Ross got murdered (if he is really dead) Ross was a top trend on twitter and the one everyone was talking about. Yes I'm sure there are a lot of people that dislike his character but there are also a lot of people that really like his character. It's the great thing about playing a baddy. You split opinions and therefor are doing your job right. I don't think Mike Parr sounded unhappy with his job and seemed to me that he loved working on Emmerdale. The whole changing his image thing sounds like something that has been said either jokingly or just to ruffle feathers. Think I have heard him say that he sticks on a hat sometimes going out so he isn't always getting attention, he also said in an interview about sometimes he will go out with his curly hair and nobody would realise. I personally think there isn't something quite right about how Ross has departed. I'm leaning more to him being alive. I have seen a lot of other stuff about that leads me to this decision. Time will tell. I'm not saying that Mike hasn't left. I do think he has or at least taking a break but they aren't convincing me 100% that Ross is dead

[Telly Watcher]

Telly Watcher and Ruffed-lemur- you spend awful lot of time here writing and speculating about Ross-the character you seemingly don't even care that much whether he's gone or not...Just wondering why?

I saw totally different interview with Mike Parr(very recent) where he didn't seem tired to play Ross at all but quite opposite-really enjoyed his character, plus didn't give any indication that he had any plans leaving. This was just before the disaster week. And about his hair he said that he likes it both ways-curly when he wants a quiet night out and then combed back other times..Nothing about being annoyed with his greasy(?) hair..It doesn't look greasy anyway. He also enjoyed Ross's complex character and so on. Seems like a really nice lad. Must be difficult for him at the moment..as some people are weird, they can't separate the fiction from reality and think they see Ross when they see Mike Parr! :D I assume Cain/Jeff Hordley must have had the same problem..
That's the part of being an actor-you just have to learn to live with it. He also said, Ross is not a problem for him on his free time as he can easily switch off but I'd say yes, this speculation is something different..no wonder he needs to get away for a bit.

We can only wait and see what happens.

I'm an Emmerdale fan who's wondering what's going to happen next. The Ross storyline right now has so many questions and doubts about it and the Ross character is one of the few interesting characters in Emmerdale right now, I for one wonder what's going to happen next with him. Emmerdale life in general is so boringly normal for most of the other residents (note to Kate Oates, where's that promised 'cast cull'? haha!)!

I want Ross to come back, but that thud on the back of his head on the kerb at the hospital followed by Pete kicking him some more (American History X style or just a kick in the chest?) seemed very final. Pete did check for a pulse (on the neck, I think) but couldn't feel it and assumed Ross was dead. My thoughts are that if there was a pulse it must have been very weak and Ross' survival chances wouldn't have been helped by being dumped away in the woods without a mobile phone with him (Emma found Ross' phone at the farm. It had Donna's texts on it so I assume this was his only phone).

The news media made a big issue about Ruby and Val leaving but Ross has just had comparatively minor reporting. Maybe this is because Val and Ruby had big tragic exit scenes and were a pair of goody-two-shoes characters, whereas the fight/dumping scenes for Ross were over so quickly and involved a bad boy who some people might see as having had his long-overdue come-uppance, so that these scenes weren't so newsworthy, or maybe the news media have embargoed insider knowledge that we will find out about in due course and that Ross isn't dead? I imagine that when the body-finding storyline starts up on Friday 21st, then the Ross interest will build and the news media machine will start up again during this time of summer when real news is hard to find. We'll see.

Ross was a much more thuggish character when he showed up in Emmerdale in 2013. He was first seen car-jacking Laurel in her car and then showed up later at Butlers Farm with a gunshot wound from a dodgy deal which had gone wrong and which Cain had been going to do but turned down. Since then, Ross has been becoming relatively tamer since then, moving away somewhat from violence/other person crime and getting into other dodgy stuff, like car-stealing, having a Pete/Debbie/Ross love/hate triangle, etc. However, he has still been the big loveable/hateable bad boy in Emmerdale, standing out far in front of the other cast on primetime TV. I don't think the general UK community really like someone on TV encouraging thuggish/anti-social/family-splitting behaviour on primetime TV. There's also the case of some people seeing Emmerdale as reality TV and think Ross is more real than fiction, as you say, mariba. It can't be all great for an actor to play a bad boy TV character like Ross, so it wouldn't be surprising for someone to have a break from it all and do something/someone else in another film or TV show.

[Ruffed_lemur]

Telly Watcher and Ruffed-lemur- you spend awful lot of time here writing and speculating about Ross-the character you seemingly don't even care that much whether he's gone or not...Just wondering why?

I saw totally different interview with Mike Parr(very recent) where he didn't seem tired to play Ross at all but quite opposite-really enjoyed his character, plus didn't give any indication that he had any plans leaving. This was just before the disaster week. And about his hair he said that he likes it both ways-curly when he wants a quiet night out and then combed back other times..Nothing about being annoyed with his greasy(?) hair..It doesn't look greasy anyway. He also enjoyed Ross's complex character and so on. Seems like a really nice lad. Must be difficult for him at the moment..as some people are weird, they can't separate the fiction from reality and think they see Ross when they see Mike Parr! :D I assume Cain/Jeff Hordley must have had the same problem..
That's the part of being an actor-you just have to learn to live with it. He also said, Ross is not a problem for him on his free time as he can easily switch off but I'd say yes, this speculation is something different..no wonder he needs to get away for a bit.

We can only wait and see what happens.

I really like the character of Ross, which is why I am interested in the discussion. I just think the character has been killed off.

[lizann]

emmerdale and mike parr did confirm on twitter ross dead but still think it is a bluff and he is alive kate oates keeping very quite

[maidmarian]

emmerdale and mike parr did confirm on twitter ross dead but still think it is a bluff and he is alive kate oates keeping very quite

Think kate Oates is taking time out
perfecting her smug smirk for her next
interview pic.
Not got it quite right yet!!

[maidmarian]

Dupl

[mariba]

He better be alive after all this silence or loads of people-me included-will be really annoyed with Emmerdale team. I mean, if he really is dead, they could as well confirm it and move on. Now everyone is just speculating..They are just going to lose loads of viewers treating us like this.

The whole summer fete thing has been a total flop-saving so many pointless characters and so much of the cast not even at the wedding+Ali missing from the aftermath(I would have rather got rid of Ali than Ruby, Diane rather than Val-I know, actress wanted to leave). Why did this Bob storyline+Jai, Rachel, Archie custody battle have to clash with the aftermath when all I can think of is-where is Ross??!
This week is just so boring..Diane&Doug..yawn..

[mariba]

He better be alive after all this silence or loads of people-me included-will be really annoyed with Emmerdale team. I mean, if he really is dead, they could as well confirm it and move on. Now everyone is just speculating..They are just going to lose loads of viewers treating us like this.

The whole summer fete thing has been a total flop-saving so many pointless characters and so much of the cast not even at the wedding+Ali missing from the aftermath(I would have rather got rid of Ali than Ruby, Diane rather than Val-I know, actress wanted to leave). Why did this Bob storyline+Jai, Rachel, Archie custody battle have to clash with the aftermath when all I can think of is-where is Ross??!
This week is just so boring..Diane&Doug..yawn..

[kennedyfan86]

Think kate Oates is taking time out
perfecting her smug smirk for her next
interview pic.
Not got it quite right yet!!

Yes, she's a very arrogant looking woman, so proud of herself, a talk to the hand sort cause you wouldn't be good enough to talk to the current Series Producer of one of ITV's top shows, she kind of makes you want to smack her face whenever you see her.

I don't think Mike's much of a holiday person, he finds it difficult to relax, likes to be working and busy - don't we all? Not as easy for everyone and it's all alright for them on their fantastic 6+ figure salaries, makes you sick, the TV industry is definitely one to break into for the financially crippled, that and football, too much money for no important contribution within society

[kennedyfan86]

Think kate Oates is taking time out
perfecting her smug smirk for her next
interview pic.
Not got it quite right yet!!

Yes, she's a very arrogant looking woman, so proud of herself, a talk to the hand sort cause you wouldn't be good enough to talk to the current Series Producer of one of ITV's top shows, she kind of makes you want to smack her face whenever you see her.

I don't think Mike's much of a holiday person, he finds it difficult to relax, likes to be working and busy - don't we all? Not as easy for everyone and it's all alright for them on their fantastic 6+ figure salaries, makes you sick, the TV industry is definitely one to break into for the financially crippled, that and football, too much money for no important contribution within society

[Telly Watcher]

What has really struck me during the last week or so is just how tightly timed everything is on Emmerdale. The planning for each episode seems to go way back so that, even by the filming stage, they know exactly what has to appear in each episode some 6-7 weeks away from showing on TV, even down to correct dates on text messages, etc, that we see cast members receiving on mobile phones in scenes (and no, they don't seem to be CGI overlay images either, just normal mobile phone screen images of usual texts on a phone held by a character in the set surroundings for the scene). If it really was decided (3/6?) months ago to kill off Ross, then I can't imagine it being an easy job to change the storyline now to bring him back, as it would mean refilming/reediting say 6-7 weeks worth of completed episodes and changing the next and future storylines and scripts covering many months ahead.

I checked out the change.org website just now and the petition for Ross to come back has only 1,878 votes. Some 6.08/6.45 million viewers (source: digitalspy.co.uk) watched the two episodes on August 6th where Ross got dumped in the woods, compared to about 5.2million viewers typically for episodes before Summer Fate week (barb.co.uk, figures after July 31st not available yet). 1,878 out of 5.2million regular viewers doesn't seem anywhere like enough to me for Emmerdale to seriously consider overcoming the time and cost of making changes to bring back Ross if he has been written out already and killed on August 6th. Matthew Wolfenden (David) gave a recent interview in which he said that cast cuts were happening because the show's budget needed to be reduced. I'm hoping that the producers and storywriters have got it right in what they've done in the coming episodes, because there doesn't seem much scope to me for changing a lot at this late stage.

Ross is liked by a number of posters on this forum, myself included. Maybe the 1,878 voters are his biggest fans, or maybe his only fans, or maybe many fans think he hasn't really been killed and is going to come back so why vote, or maybe the poll wasn't publicised well enough for enough people to know about it to vote? The population of St Helens town where Mike Parr comes from was 102,629 in the 2001 Census (source: wikipedia) and 176,843 for the St Helens Metropolitan Area. So not even many local town fans could have voted for him either. It wasn't a yes/no vote, so we can't know the real reasons for why so few people voted to bring Ross back to Emmerdale. I suppose the best-case explanation is that the poll wasn't publicised well enough for a very large number of people to vote in it. The worst-case explanation is that the Ross character really isn't popular with the majority of Emmerdale viewers/UK public, and in this case is evidence that leaving Emmerdale might be a smart move for Mike Parr after all?

[maidmarian]

What has really struck me during the last week or so is just how tightly timed everything is on Emmerdale. The planning for each episode seems to go way back so that, even by the filming stage, they know exactly what has to appear in each episode some 6-7 weeks away from showing on TV, even down to correct dates on text messages, etc, that we see cast members receiving on mobile phones in scenes (and no, they don't seem to be CGI overlay images either, just normal mobile phone screen images of usual texts on a phone held by a character in the set surroundings for the scene). If it really was decided (3/6?) months ago to kill off Ross, then I can't imagine it being an easy job to change the storyline now to bring him back, as it would mean refilming/reediting say 6-7 weeks worth of completed episodes and changing the next and future storylines and scripts covering many months ahead.

I checked out the change.org website just now and the petition for Ross to come back has only 1,878 votes. Some 6.08/6.45 million viewers (source: digitalspy.co.uk) watched the two episodes on August 6th where Ross got dumped in the woods, compared to about 5.2million viewers typically for episodes before Summer Fate week (barb.co.uk, figures after July 31st not available yet). 1,878 out of 5.2million regular viewers doesn't seem anywhere like enough to me for Emmerdale to seriously consider overcoming the time and cost of making changes to bring back Ross if he has been written out already and killed on August 6th. Matthew Wolfenden (David) gave a recent interview in which he said that cast cuts were happening because the show's budget needed to be reduced. I'm hoping that the producers and storywriters have got it right in what they've done in the coming episodes, because there doesn't seem much scope to me for changing a lot at this late stage.

Ross is liked by a number of posters on this forum, myself included. Maybe the 1,878 voters are his biggest fans, or maybe his only fans, or maybe many fans think he hasn't really been killed and is going to come back so why vote, or maybe the poll wasn't publicised well enough for enough people to know about it to vote? The population of St Helens town where Mike Parr comes from was 102,629 in the 2001 Census (source: wikipedia) and 176,843 for the St Helens Metropolitan Area. So not even many local town fans could have voted for him either. It wasn't a yes/no vote, so we can't know the real reasons for why so few people voted to bring Ross back to Emmerdale. I suppose the best-case explanation is that the poll wasn't publicised well enough for a very large number of people to vote in it. The worst-case explanation is that the Ross character really isn't popular with the majority of Emmerdale viewers/UK public, and in this case is evidence that leaving Emmerdale might be a smart move for Mike Parr after all?


You given some interesting info.and reasoned
arguments Telly Watcher- my guess would
be apathy -as you suggest - and also a lot
of people are very chary about doing some
things on-line.

I think giving opinions and supporting causes
are things that people feel can back-fire on
them.
I looked at the website you mention and
couldnt even look at it without registering
or signing in??? So more info about a person
held and possibly prone to misuse.

I like Ross -Im sorry if it does turn out he
has left permanently but I wouldn't
sign a petition in support of a matter
such as this.

Im.probably over cautious but I use on-line
for info/services etc that would help me
and do.appear to have safeguards!

Recent well publicised events suggest there
is more need for caution not less.

[maidmarian]

Dupl

[mariba]

What I really think is going to happen with Ross, is that he's going to stay as a missing person for few months to come. Mike Parr will that way have a nice break too to try out new things -maybe Strictly? ;)

Pete panics when Emma and James go to mortuary to identify the body, and under pressure ends up telling the truth(or some of it-that they had a fight and he left Ross for dead..), later when the body found turns out not to be Ross and everyone knows what Pete has done, they turn against him and Debbie wants him out, even thinking to call the police. That's why James is begging Debbie to give Pete bit more time. Pete goes to check where he left Ross,maybe thinking to bury him properly- only to find out that he's not there. This takes Pete to a very dark place. His family has turned their back on him, Debbie has left him..He's struggling with his guilt and now even panicking about Ross coming back. I have a feeling that Mike Parr has indeed left the show-but hopefully only temporarily.

[mariba]

What I really think is going to happen with Ross, is that he's going to stay as a missing person for few months to come. Mike Parr will that way have a nice break too to try out new things -maybe Strictly? ;)

Pete panics when Emma and James go to mortuary to identify the body, and under pressure ends up telling the truth(or some of it-that they had a fight and he left Ross for dead..), later when the body found turns out not to be Ross and everyone knows what Pete has done, they turn against him and Debbie wants him out, even thinking to call the police. That's why James is begging Debbie to give Pete bit more time. Pete goes to check where he left Ross,maybe thinking to bury him properly- only to find out that he's not there. This takes Pete to a very dark place. His family has turned their back on him, Debbie has left him..He's struggling with his guilt and now even panicking about Ross coming back. I have a feeling that Mike Parr has indeed left the show-but hopefully only temporarily.

[Dalesfan]

Michael Parr signed a new 1 year contract last year. Reportedly August. So yes it would be up now. And Seeing as he has left the show now the timing does sound about right. They wrapped the Summer Fate stuff early July. This would mean he still had a few weeks left in his contract? Now I'm not really sure how it all works. BUT he was still seen at the studios in these last few weeks. This is why people still think it doesn't add up. If they have Killed Ross then he wouldn't be needed at the studios as there would be nothing for him to film. Unless he isn't really dead comes back or is found. Has some pretty nasty injuries and then leaves the show.

Mariba I can see your theory being possible. I think it definitely could happen

[kennedyfan86]

Michael Parr signed a new 1 year contract last year. Reportedly August. So yes it would be up now. And Seeing as he has left the show now the timing does sound about right. They wrapped the Summer Fate stuff early July. This would mean he still had a few weeks left in his contract? Now I'm not really sure how it all works. BUT he was still seen at the studios in these last few weeks. This is why people still think it doesn't add up. If they have Killed Ross then he wouldn't be needed at the studios as there would be nothing for him to film. Unless he isn't really dead comes back or is found. Has some pretty nasty injuries and then leaves the show.

Mariba I can see your theory being possible. I think it definitely could happen

I guess if they did get rid of him before the contract expired then they'd have to give him redundancy pay I imagine.

Mike's still in contact with the production office regardless of whatever's happening.

Do any cast or crew come on this forum? Have always wondered.

[kennedyfan86]

Michael Parr signed a new 1 year contract last year. Reportedly August. So yes it would be up now. And Seeing as he has left the show now the timing does sound about right. They wrapped the Summer Fate stuff early July. This would mean he still had a few weeks left in his contract? Now I'm not really sure how it all works. BUT he was still seen at the studios in these last few weeks. This is why people still think it doesn't add up. If they have Killed Ross then he wouldn't be needed at the studios as there would be nothing for him to film. Unless he isn't really dead comes back or is found. Has some pretty nasty injuries and then leaves the show.

Mariba I can see your theory being possible. I think it definitely could happen

I guess if they did get rid of him before the contract expired then they'd have to give him redundancy pay I imagine.

Mike's still in contact with the production office regardless of whatever's happening.

Do any cast or crew come on this forum? Have always wondered.

[lizann]

april will be so sad even more if ross is dead don't think he is

[Telly Watcher]

Michael Parr signed a new 1 year contract last year. Reportedly August. So yes it would be up now. And Seeing as he has left the show now the timing does sound about right. They wrapped the Summer Fate stuff early July. This would mean he still had a few weeks left in his contract? Now I'm not really sure how it all works. BUT he was still seen at the studios in these last few weeks. This is why people still think it doesn't add up. If they have Killed Ross then he wouldn't be needed at the studios as there would be nothing for him to film. Unless he isn't really dead comes back or is found. Has some pretty nasty injuries and then leaves the show.

Mariba I can see your theory being possible. I think it definitely could happen

Dalesfan wrote:
"Michael Parr signed a new 1 year contract last year. Reportedly August."

This new spoiler info is interesting.

Mike Parr joined Emmerdale as Ross during 2013 and appeared first on July 9th as an unknown criminal character when he car-jacked Laurel in town. This appearance was presumably a screen-test which he was successful in as he eventually became a regular Emmerdale character on October 24th. In this episode, he showed up at Butlers Farm with a gunshot wound from a dodgy deal which had backfired and which Cain, being smart, had previously turned down and given to him, saying it was an easy job. It was at the farm that Moira realised that he was her dead husbands's brother's son named Ross, so she allowed him to stay. The other Barton brothers moved into the farm afterwards.

It sounds like Mike Parr's initial regular Emmerdale contract ran to August 2014 and was renewed to expire by August 2015. This means that he may now be out of contract and free from Emmerdale.

I'd like Ross to come back sooner or later, and a number of storylines would fit the spoiler info we know for now which would make this work.

But I'm now going to imagine an alternative storyline, in which Mike Parr doesn't come back and which also fits the spoiler info we know for now.

7270 Monday 24 August 7pm – 7.30pm. Pete makes a confession / Not realising what has gone on at the mortuary, Pete drops a bombshell.
7271/72 Tuesday 25 August 7pm – 8pm. James begs Debbie for time
7273 Wednesday 26 August 2015 7pm – 7.30pm. Pete is rejected by his family
7274/75 Thursday 27 August 2015 7pm - 8pm. Pete faces up to the past
7276 Friday 28 August 7pm – 7.30pm. Emma relishes being needed

James and Emma go to the mortuary on Monday 24th and the body is Ross. Emma is devastated and heart-broken and blames Cain, as he had a motive to kill Ross for having a relationship with Debbie whilst she was going out with/engaged to Pete. Following Emma's suspicions about Cain, the police now think Cain has murdered Ross but have yet to prove it through forensics and questioning. Whilst James and Emma are at the morgue, Pete cracks at his house and tells Debbie what he really did to Ross. When James and Emma come back from the mortuary, Debbie tells James what Pete has done. Debbie says that she's going to the police to help save her father Cain from a murder charge but James says to wait, hoping that police enquiries and forensics can rule out Cain as having any opportunity for killing Ross and dumping the body where the police found it. Debbie and the Barton family then tell Pete that they want him out of their lives, as they are scared of what he's capable of and he has killed the middle Barton son. They also close ranks and don't tell the police anything just yet. Pete broods about what to do next. As his job at the farm is gone and he no longer has any earnings, he thinks about owning up to the police to get Cain off the hook for murder, or going on the run, or laying low in Emmerdale whilst making money from dodgy deals. Whatever he decides, he's on his own for now. In the meantime, Emma restarts her relationship with James at the farm and sets about bringing the Barton family back together now that Pete is no longer part of it.

We should have spoiler info for episodes for August 31st - September 4th from around August 19th next week, so this should help to guess more next week about which storyline the Emmerdale storywriters might have written for August 24th-28th.

[kennedyfan86]

Dalesfan wrote:
"Michael Parr signed a new 1 year contract last year. Reportedly August."

This new spoiler info is interesting.

Mike Parr joined Emmerdale as Ross during 2013 and appeared first on July 9th as an unknown criminal character when he car-jacked Laurel in town. This appearance was presumably a screen-test which he was successful in as he eventually became a regular Emmerdale character on October 24th. In this episode, he showed up at Butlers Farm with a gunshot wound from a dodgy deal which had backfired and which Cain, being smart, had previously turned down and given to him, saying it was an easy job. It was at the farm that Moira realised that he was her dead husbands's brother's son named Ross, so she allowed him to stay. The other Barton brothers moved into the farm afterwards.

It sounds like Mike Parr's initial regular Emmerdale contract ran to August 2014 and was renewed to expire by August 2015. This means that he may now be out of contract and free from Emmerdale.

I'd like Ross to come back sooner or later, and a number of storylines would fit the spoiler info we know for now which would make this work.

But I'm now going to imagine an alternative storyline, in which Mike Parr doesn't come back and which also fits the spoiler info we know for now.

7270 Monday 24 August 7pm – 7.30pm. Pete makes a confession / Not realising what has gone on at the mortuary, Pete drops a bombshell.
7271/72 Tuesday 25 August 7pm – 8pm. James begs Debbie for time
7273 Wednesday 26 August 2015 7pm – 7.30pm. Pete is rejected by his family
7274/75 Thursday 27 August 2015 7pm - 8pm. Pete faces up to the past
7276 Friday 28 August 7pm – 7.30pm. Emma relishes being needed

James and Emma go to the mortuary on Monday 24th and the body is Ross. Emma is devastated and heart-broken and blames Cain, as he had a motive to kill Ross for having a relationship with Debbie whilst she was going out with/engaged to Pete. Following Emma's suspicions about Cain, the police now think Cain has murdered Ross but have yet to prove it through forensics and questioning. Whilst James and Emma are at the morgue, Pete cracks at his house and tells Debbie what he really did to Ross. When James and Emma come back from the mortuary, Debbie tells James what Pete has done. Debbie says that she's going to the police to help save her father Cain from a murder charge but James says to wait, hoping that police enquiries and forensics can rule out Cain as having any opportunity for killing Ross and dumping the body where the police found it. Debbie and the Barton family then tell Pete that they want him out of their lives, as they are scared of what he's capable of and he has killed the middle Barton son. They also close ranks and don't tell the police anything just yet. Pete broods about what to do next. As his job at the farm is gone and he no longer has any earnings, he thinks about owning up to the police to get Cain off the hook for murder, or going on the run, or laying low in Emmerdale whilst making money from dodgy deals. Whatever he decides, he's on his own for now. In the meantime, Emma restarts her relationship with James at the farm and sets about bringing the Barton family back together now that Pete is no longer part of it.

We should have spoiler info for episodes for August 31st - September 4th from around August 19th next week, so this should help to guess more next week about which storyline the Emmerdale storywriters might have written for August 24th-28th.

Screen tests usually happen after auditions, they get a sample script and a director and casting director. Mike found out he had the part in May 2013 and knew he was going to be a series regular at that point, he just had to keep quiet for the 3 months after the carjacking episode aired.

[kennedyfan86]

Dalesfan wrote:
"Michael Parr signed a new 1 year contract last year. Reportedly August."

This new spoiler info is interesting.

Mike Parr joined Emmerdale as Ross during 2013 and appeared first on July 9th as an unknown criminal character when he car-jacked Laurel in town. This appearance was presumably a screen-test which he was successful in as he eventually became a regular Emmerdale character on October 24th. In this episode, he showed up at Butlers Farm with a gunshot wound from a dodgy deal which had backfired and which Cain, being smart, had previously turned down and given to him, saying it was an easy job. It was at the farm that Moira realised that he was her dead husbands's brother's son named Ross, so she allowed him to stay. The other Barton brothers moved into the farm afterwards.

It sounds like Mike Parr's initial regular Emmerdale contract ran to August 2014 and was renewed to expire by August 2015. This means that he may now be out of contract and free from Emmerdale.

I'd like Ross to come back sooner or later, and a number of storylines would fit the spoiler info we know for now which would make this work.

But I'm now going to imagine an alternative storyline, in which Mike Parr doesn't come back and which also fits the spoiler info we know for now.

7270 Monday 24 August 7pm – 7.30pm. Pete makes a confession / Not realising what has gone on at the mortuary, Pete drops a bombshell.
7271/72 Tuesday 25 August 7pm – 8pm. James begs Debbie for time
7273 Wednesday 26 August 2015 7pm – 7.30pm. Pete is rejected by his family
7274/75 Thursday 27 August 2015 7pm - 8pm. Pete faces up to the past
7276 Friday 28 August 7pm – 7.30pm. Emma relishes being needed

James and Emma go to the mortuary on Monday 24th and the body is Ross. Emma is devastated and heart-broken and blames Cain, as he had a motive to kill Ross for having a relationship with Debbie whilst she was going out with/engaged to Pete. Following Emma's suspicions about Cain, the police now think Cain has murdered Ross but have yet to prove it through forensics and questioning. Whilst James and Emma are at the morgue, Pete cracks at his house and tells Debbie what he really did to Ross. When James and Emma come back from the mortuary, Debbie tells James what Pete has done. Debbie says that she's going to the police to help save her father Cain from a murder charge but James says to wait, hoping that police enquiries and forensics can rule out Cain as having any opportunity for killing Ross and dumping the body where the police found it. Debbie and the Barton family then tell Pete that they want him out of their lives, as they are scared of what he's capable of and he has killed the middle Barton son. They also close ranks and don't tell the police anything just yet. Pete broods about what to do next. As his job at the farm is gone and he no longer has any earnings, he thinks about owning up to the police to get Cain off the hook for murder, or going on the run, or laying low in Emmerdale whilst making money from dodgy deals. Whatever he decides, he's on his own for now. In the meantime, Emma restarts her relationship with James at the farm and sets about bringing the Barton family back together now that Pete is no longer part of it.

We should have spoiler info for episodes for August 31st - September 4th from around August 19th next week, so this should help to guess more next week about which storyline the Emmerdale storywriters might have written for August 24th-28th.

Screen tests usually happen after auditions, they get a sample script and a director and casting director are there. Mike found out he had the part in May 2013 and knew he was going to be a series regular at that point, he just had to keep quiet for the 3 months after the carjacking episode aired.

[Telly Watcher]

But I'm now going to imagine an alternative storyline, in which Mike Parr doesn't come back and which also fits the spoiler info we know for now.

7270 Monday 24 August 7pm – 7.30pm. Pete makes a confession / Not realising what has gone on at the mortuary, Pete drops a bombshell.
7271/72 Tuesday 25 August 7pm – 8pm. James begs Debbie for time
7273 Wednesday 26 August 2015 7pm – 7.30pm. Pete is rejected by his family
7274/75 Thursday 27 August 2015 7pm - 8pm. Pete faces up to the past
7276 Friday 28 August 7pm – 7.30pm. Emma relishes being needed

James and Emma go to the mortuary on Monday 24th and the body is Ross. Emma is devastated and heart-broken and blames Cain, as he had a motive to kill Ross for having a relationship with Debbie whilst she was going out with/engaged to Pete. Following Emma's suspicions about Cain, the police now think Cain has murdered Ross but have yet to prove it through forensics and questioning. Whilst James and Emma are at the morgue, Pete cracks at his house and tells Debbie what he really did to Ross. When James and Emma come back from the mortuary, Debbie tells James what Pete has done. Debbie says that she's going to the police to help save her father Cain from a murder charge but James says to wait, hoping that police enquiries and forensics can rule out Cain as having any opportunity for killing Ross and dumping the body where the police found it. Debbie and the Barton family then tell Pete that they want him out of their lives, as they are scared of what he's capable of and he has killed the middle Barton son. They also close ranks and don't tell the police anything just yet. Pete broods about what to do next. As his job at the farm is gone and he no longer has any earnings, he thinks about owning up to the police to get Cain off the hook for murder, or going on the run, or laying low in Emmerdale whilst making money from dodgy deals. Whatever he decides, he's on his own for now. In the meantime, Emma restarts her relationship with James at the farm and sets about bringing the Barton family back together now that Pete is no longer part of it.

We should have spoiler info for episodes for August 31st - September 4th from around August 19th next week, so this should help to guess more next week about which storyline the Emmerdale storywriters might have written for August 24th-28th.

Perdita wrote yesterday:
>
Pete is terrified as he watches James and Emma head off to identify the body and he tells Finn to prepare himself for the worst. Not realising what has gone on at the mortuary, Pete drops a bombshell.
>

After more thought on this, I now think that Pete cracks at the house and tells Finn what he really did to Ross. When James comes back from the mortuary, Finn tells James what Pete has done to Ross, and Debbie also gets told too by Finn or James or Pete.

The alternative storyline theory becomes...

James and Emma go to the mortuary on Monday 24th and the body is Ross. Emma is devastated and heart-broken and blames Cain, as he had a motive to kill Ross for having a relationship with Debbie whilst she was going out with/engaged to Pete. Following Emma's suspicions about Cain, the police now think Cain has murdered Ross but have yet to prove it through forensics and questioning. Whilst James and Emma are at the mortuary, Pete cracks at his house and tells Finn what he really did to Ross. When James and Emma come back from the mortuary, Finn tells James what Pete has done. Debbie also gets told too by Finn or James or Pete. Debbie says that she's going to the police to help save her father Cain from a murder charge but James says to wait, hoping that police enquiries and forensics can rule out Cain as having any opportunity for killing Ross and dumping the body where the police found it. Debbie and the Barton family then tell Pete that they want him out of their lives, as they are scared of what he's capable of and he has killed the middle Barton son. They also close ranks and don't tell the police anything just yet. Pete broods about what to do next. As his job at the farm is gone and he no longer has any earnings, he thinks about owning up to the police to get Cain off the hook for murder, or going on the run, or laying low in Emmerdale whilst making money from dodgy deals. Whatever he decides, he's on his own for now. In the meantime, Emma restarts her relationship with James at the farm and sets about bringing the Barton family back together now that Pete is no longer part of it.

[Telly Watcher]

Michael Parr signed a new 1 year contract last year. Reportedly August. So yes it would be up now. And Seeing as he has left the show now the timing does sound about right. They wrapped the Summer Fate stuff early July. This would mean he still had a few weeks left in his contract? Now I'm not really sure how it all works. BUT he was still seen at the studios in these last few weeks. This is why people still think it doesn't add up. If they have Killed Ross then he wouldn't be needed at the studios as there would be nothing for him to film. Unless he isn't really dead comes back or is found. Has some pretty nasty injuries and then leaves the show.

Telly Watcher wrote yesterday on the Ross Barton thread:
>
Mike Parr joined Emmerdale as Ross during 2013 and appeared first on July 9th as an unknown criminal character when he car-jacked Laurel in town. This appearance was presumably a screen-test which he was successful in as he eventually became a regular Emmerdale character on October 24th. In this episode, he showed up at Butlers Farm with a gunshot wound from a dodgy deal which had backfired and which Cain, being smart, had previously turned down and given to him, saying it was an easy job. It was at the farm that Moira realised that he was her dead husbands's brother's son named Ross, so she allowed him to stay. The other Barton brothers moved into the farm afterwards.

It sounds like Mike Parr's initial regular Emmerdale contract ran to August 2014 and was renewed to expire by August 2015. This means that he may now be out of contract and free from Emmerdale.
>

I've thought further now on this and realised that the regular Emmerdale contracts for the other Bartons should also have expired around now, that's for James, Finn, Pete and Emma.

Anthony Quinlan (Pete) and Joe Gill (Finn) were announced as cast members on 5/11/13 and both appeared on TV during the episode for December 6th 2013.

Bill Ward (James) was announced as a cast member on 29/09/13 and appeared on TV during the episode for October 25th 2013.

Gillian Kearney (Emma) was announced as a cast member on 11/08/14 and appeared on TV during the episode for January 2nd 2015.

If their contracts were like Ross', and starting in August, then their regular contracts would have been due for renewal after 1 year and should also have expired around August 2015? Emma joined the Emmerdale cast around August 2014, so her 1 year contract should also have expired around August 2015?

This could mean that all of the Bartons may have completed filming now and are up for leaving Emmerdale when the episodes already filmed with them in get shown up to about October 2015? I wonder if this whole-family Barton clear-out is amongst what Kate Oates has planned as part of the 'cast cull' we've been told to expect in the news?

So what could happen by October 2015?

Maybe Pete gets written out by going to prison for a long time for murdering Ross?

Maybe James gets written out by being killed by 'dangerous' Emma?

Perhaps Emma kills James and herself at the same time or she goes to prison or just leaves Emmerdale?

Now that Val is gone and Finn no longer has a surrogate mother, maybe he is left as the surviving/free Barton member who leaves the village to go somewhere else by October 2015. He does have a university degree so I suppose he could finally use that and get a proper career somewhere else away from Emmerdale? Finn did plan to go to Tokyo for a new life during 2014 but didn't have the money to go, that's when he asked Declan for a job reference for another job somewhere (not sure where, UK?) but didn't get it because it was a poor reference.

All of this is hypothetical, of course, I'm only suggesting these things as there are completed filmed episodes waiting to be shown on TV up to October 2015 and a lot like this could happen in such a long time as this is soapland.

This contract issue for the Barton family could explain a lot about why the real Ross storyline could be that Ross has really been killed off by Pete and that Mike Parr has really left Emmerdale (to be followed by the other cast members of the Barton family?).

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_Barton

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Emmerdale_characters

[Telly Watcher]

Mike Parr posted this update today on Twitter:

Micheal Parr @MikeParrActor - Aug 14

Off to London now. Got a new job, can't say what it is but when we start rehearsals I'll let you know.

https://twitter.com/mikeparractor

[mariba]

Could well be something temporary like Strictly Come Dancing..;)

[Kim]

Sounds like something like that or a stage play as he's said rehearsals. If he had another regular TV role then there wouldn't be rehearsals.

[Dalesfan]

Well I suppose the truth will be out soon whether this actually happens. Seeing as the last set of spoilers (24th - 28th) says that Eric refuses to make arrangements (about Val's funeral?) Maybe the funeral happens the week after

[Telly Watcher]

Before Emmerdale in 2013, Mike Parr was in a number of films. One of these was Territory, released around October 2014 but made around 2010 when Mike Parr was about 24yo. In this, Mike Parr plays dangerous character Kieren on a boring Friday night in Salford.

This is how the young Ross looked back in 2010.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B1mcDK2IEAA_gSU.jpg

Source: https://twitter.com/territoryfilm/status/529626009650593792

A different large photo from the film is at at http://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/resources/images/3313768/

A film News article is at http://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/news/11533110.Actor_makes_gritty_film_about_life_on_str eets_of_Little_Hulton

See two free-to-watch 2-minute 'Bonus Features' film teaser videos ('Territory Teaser' and 'Territory Teaser 2') on the following website:

https://vimeo.com/ondemand/territory/105054931

[Dalesfan]

pretty funny the petition has over 6,000 signatures now and quite a few media outlets reporting on it

whether you like Ross or dislike him you can't deny he is a huge character. Doesn't make sense they would want to kill him off. Hopefully he pops up again soon lol

[Dalesfan]

pretty funny the petition has over 6,000 signatures now and quite a few media outlets reporting on it

whether you like Ross or dislike him you can't deny he is a huge character. Doesn't make sense they would want to kill him off. Hopefully he pops up again soon lol

edit to ask - why does posts always post twice?

[mariba]

I signed it-right in the beginning! :) Glad to hear it's going well!
And before anyone goes critisizing or saying 'how stupid it is' I'm signing quite many petitions for many good causes. This is something less serious but as worthy cause as any ;)

[kennedyfan86]

pretty funny the petition has over 6,000 signatures now and quite a few media outlets reporting on it

whether you like Ross or dislike him you can't deny he is a huge character. Doesn't make sense they would want to kill him off. Hopefully he pops up again soon lol

I still think he's having a break to do some things. My mum "I don't care what anyone says, I don't think he's dead, I won't miss him if he is, but he isn't", adamant lol

[kennedyfan86]

pretty funny the petition has over 6,000 signatures now and quite a few media outlets reporting on it

whether you like Ross or dislike him you can't deny he is a huge character. Doesn't make sense they would want to kill him off. Hopefully he pops up again soon lol

I still think he's having a break to do some things. My mum "I don't care what anyone says, I don't think he's dead, I won't miss him if he is, but he isn't", adamant lol

[Dalesfan]

Nothing wrong with having a bit of light hearted fun and what harm is it in showing Emmerdale what the viewers think. I mean the viewers are what counts aren't they?

I do think he has left aswell. For me it's about leaving the door open for him so he can return. Ross is to big a character for me to lose permanently

[Dalesfan]

Nothing wrong with having a bit of light hearted fun and what harm is it in showing Emmerdale what the viewers think. I mean the viewers are what counts aren't they?

I do think he has left aswell. For me it's about leaving the door open for him so he can return. Ross is to big a character for me to lose permanently

[Perdita]

pretty funny the petition has over 6,000 signatures now and quite a few media outlets reporting on it

whether you like Ross or dislike him you can't deny he is a huge character. Doesn't make sense they would want to kill him off. Hopefully he pops up again soon lol

edit to ask - why does posts always post twice?

There is a fault with the server that so far has not been able to be rectified. If you use the "Go Advanced" option for posting, you find it does not happen :)

[Dalesfan]

There is a fault with the server that so far has not been able to be rectified. If you use the "Go Advanced" option for posting, you find it does not happen :)

ah ok thank you :)

[maidmarian]

I still think he's having a break to do some things. My mum "I don't care what anyone says, I don't think he's dead, I won't miss him if he is, but he isn't", adamant lol

Sounds like your mum is aware of the devious
ploys of soap producers!

[maidmarian]

I still think he's having a break to do some things. My mum "I don't care what anyone says, I don't think he's dead, I won't miss him if he is, but he isn't", adamant lol

Sounds like your mum is aware of the devious
ploys of soap producers!

[shaine1811]

I think your right bout him taking a break but I'm veering towards him being alive as there was an article in yesterday's Sunday World magazine where Charley Webb is showing the Irish press around 8 weeks after the crash took place and she introduces the Irish press to Michael and Anthony and the article goes onto say that they 'are busy boys on set these days as the fall out after the wedding revelations continue for Pete and Ross'

[Telly Watcher]

I think your right bout him taking a break but I'm veering towards him being alive as there was an article in yesterday's Sunday World magazine where Charley Webb is showing the Irish press around 8 weeks after the crash took place and she introduces the Irish press to Michael and Anthony and the article goes onto say that they 'are busy boys on set these days as the fall out after the wedding revelations continue for Pete and Ross'

Sorry but I can't find any reference to this on the internet. All Charley Webb seems to talk about at the moment in the news media is her new baby, due around December 2015.

Source: http://www.sundayworld.com/style/showbiz/charley-webb-and-matthew-wolfenden-closer-than-ever

Of course, all Emmerdale actors are sworn to secrecy about their and others' storylines. I believe they get the sack if they say too much to early as they are then in breach of confidentiality specified by the work contract.

The Ross storyline seems to have been the most tantalising and secretive thing to have happened on Emmerdale in a long time. Is he dead or alive? All of the magazines and news media I've read so far have stated that he's dead.

[Dalesfan]

Sorry but I can't find any reference to this on the internet. All Charley Webb seems to talk about at the moment in the news media is her new baby, due around December 2015.

Source: http://www.sundayworld.com/style/showbiz/charley-webb-and-matthew-wolfenden-closer-than-ever

Of course, all Emmerdale actors are sworn to secrecy about their and others' storylines. I believe they get the sack if they say too much to early as they are then in breach of confidentiality specified by the work contract.

The Ross storyline seems to have been the most tantalising and secretive thing to have happened on Emmerdale in a long time. Is he dead or alive? All of the magazines and news media I've read so far have stated that he's dead.

There is scans of it on twitter. Just had a look and it does sound like they were all on set and they do talk about it being 8 weeks ago

[Telly Watcher]

There is scans of it on twitter. Just had a look and it does sound like they were all on set and they do talk about it being 8 weeks ago

Can you tell us what the twitter webpage address is for this info?

[deeCee]

I do hope it is true.

BUT, if not, I think KO should consider re-casting the character of Ross. It's such a waste of a good character if he has been killed off because Mr Parr wants out. There is so much more mileage to go with Ross.

[deeCee]

..

[Dalesfan]

Can you tell us what the twitter webpage address is for this info?

Let me go and see if I can find it again. It was one of the Michael Parr Fan pages on twitter.

Edit - https://twitter.com/sher222_sher/status/632974322332774400

[Telly Watcher]

Let me go and see if I can find it again. It was one of the Michael Parr Fan pages on twitter.

Edit - https://twitter.com/sher222_sher/status/632974322332774400

shaine1811 wrote:
>
I think your right bout him taking a break but I'm veering towards him being alive as there was an article in yesterday's Sunday World magazine where Charley Webb is showing the Irish press around 8 weeks after the crash took place and she introduces the Irish press to Michael and Anthony and the article goes onto say that they 'are busy boys on set these days as the fall out after the wedding revelations continue for Pete and Ross'
>

dalesfan wrote:
>
There is scans of it on twitter. Just had a look and it does sound like they were all on set and they do talk about it being 8 weeks ago
>

It took me a while to read the article, I had to find a magnifying glass and type bits of the text out. But you're right, it does mention what you wrote. It looks like a really great spoiler.

Sunday World, August 16th 2015, published:
>
Charley had SIX wedding dresses made for the disaster scene, and did all the stunts herself.

"The bit where you saw everything collapse - that was us [the actors]. We did all that ourselves," she says proudly. "We were absolutely covered in dust for days. But there was never anywhere where we didn't feel safe. We never felt in jeopardy while filming. So, because of that, we had a lot of fun doing it.

"That was filmed about eight weeks ago and Debbie was in a coma. But as viewers would have seen a couple of nights ago, she's back - fighting fit," says Charley with a massive grin.

... etc

Michael and Anthony are busy boys on-set these days after the fall-out from the wedding revelations continue for Pete and Ross. "Two brothers, one woman...it's big", smiles Michael.

After Pete beat Ross up and shoved him over a cliff, his mother Emma becomes worried about his disappearance. Cain Dingle then becomes a suspect when it's learned he left Ross locked in a van on the side of a cliff, while Pete soon freaks out when the police find a body.

... etc
>


'Michael and Anthony are busy boys on-set these days after the fall-out from the wedding revelations continue for Pete and Ross'

Sounds like Ross is alive and kicking after all. The Summer Fate scenes would have been filmed around June, so for Pete and Ross to be filming on-set last week shows the storyline carries on between them and that Ross survives somehow. I think he must have regained consciousness and walked out of the wood himself/more likely got rescued by a dog-walker or something, maybe suffered amnesia and spent some days/weeks in hospital. Why weren't the police informed about this incident, I wonder? Time will tell.

One thing that has bothered me this week is that the spoilers show that on August 24th Debbie wants to go and find Ross' body after Pete has told her what he did to Ross and how he dumped him in the woods.

Perdita wrote on 16-08-15 about the Monday August 24th episode:
>
Debbie is horrified by Pete's confession

A disgusted Debbie immediately compares Pete to her dangerous killer ex Cameron Murray, before demanding that they go and find Ross's body.

After Debbie yells at Pete to stay away from her, James soon spots her running down the street in a panic.
>
(Source: digitalspy.co.uk)

Is this a big mistake by the Emmerdale scriptwriters that Debbie wants to find Ross's body when Pete should have also told her about how James and Emma have gone to check if the body which the police have found is Ross? Why would Debbie want to go and look for Ross' body elsewhere when James and Emma are looking at a body which is presumed to be Ross at the mortuary? Is it just that Debbie is overcome with emotion and not thinking clearly at this point, or Pete didn't say about the body in the mortuary, or is this a scriptwriter mistake? We'll see in due course, I suppose. It does sound (just like at least 2 other spoiler sources to date) like the body in the mortuary is not Ross from this, however.

By then though, Ross' body would have been in the woods for about two weeks. I don't expect an injured Ross would survive there without food, water and shelter for this length of time so, if alive, he must have walked away/been rescued within a day or two. If the Sunday World is right, then if Pete/Debbie/James go to find the body, it shouldn't be there but have gone missing and they will be left waiting for news of his whereabouts and what happened next.

[TaintedLove]

I never believed for one minute that Ross was dead.
More than likely I`m in the minority, but I wish he had been killed off - I absolutely loathe him. In my opinion he has no redeeming qualities whatsoever. All he`s done since he arrived is cause trouble and sleep around. Then when his latest back warmer decided to marry his brother - he had a massive strop and decided to wreck the wedding.
Ross is keeping Mothercare in business the amount of times he`s thrown his dummy out the pram. Poor baby Moses having him as a Father.
:angry:

[mariba]

So funny how differently viewers see the characters..I've always seen Ross as an interesting character and Emmerdale is a soap where life is far from reality and we need some dramatic twists and turns to keep people glued on the screen- Ross has given plenty of that and hopefully more to come ;)

[Dalesfan]

so the body that Emma and James have to identify is not Ross'

and then in inside soap says "Devastated by his son's actions James asks Pete to take him to where he left Ross' body But will they be able to find the bloodied corpse or is there another shock in store?"

[kennedyfan86]

Sounds like your mum is aware of the devious
ploys of soap producers!

She said yesterday "if that gloating red head we see on This Morning stood in front of me telling me Ross was dead I'd take it with a pinch of salt, she'd fail a lie detector on Jeremy Kyle"

[Telly Watcher]

Charley Webb (Debbie) is currently pregnant with her second child, due to be born around December 2015. I wonder what her exit storyline will be? I imagine that Charley Webb will stop filming around October when the baby bump will be becoming very noticeable by then. Maybe it turns out that Debbie is carrying Ross' second child then (Moses is Ross' first child from Charity)? I assume that Charley Webb will be away from filming for 6 months after December so won't be filming again until June 2016 and we won't see her in TV episodes from about December 2015 until around mid-August 2016 onwards.

We now know that Ross is going to return to Emmerdale soon on TV after being reported as doing filming on-set up to at least last week. I imagine that Debbie could keep Pete out her life now as, from the episode on Tuesday 25th, she has become terrified of what he has shown her to be capable of in being so violent to Ross. She might also be getting flashbacks from the things which Cameron did when he was in her life previously?

Mike Parr claimed on his Twitter account on August 10th that he has a new job in London and has to do rehearsals for it but would not give further details about it. (I'm guessing it's a possible stage-play/Strictly Come Dancing type-of-show, but nothing too long-term. 6 months?) I don't think Mike Parr would lie about this new job to his fans so assume that it is for real but I wonder if this claim is incomplete and that his acting for Emmerdale is continuing at the same time at least for now? Maybe the new job isn't yet a full-time one but just involves rehearsing for some of the week, so he may be able to continue filming for Emmerdale for some other days during the week, but nothing like the 12-hour five-days-a-week schedule which the Emmerdale actors have been working as of late? If the new job is a stage-play which opens around November or filming for a TV show like Strictly for 6 months starts then, then he should be doing this as a full-time job with no time for acting for Emmerdale at the same time. As by then Charley Webb will be due to leave the soap to get ready for her baby, then maybe Ross and Debbie have a storyline involving them leaving Emmerdale together with Moses (and the unborn Ross child #2, if this exists then?), leaving Pete on Emmerdale as the man whose wife has finally left him? Anthony Quinlan's existing Emmerdale contract expires around December 2015, so whether he stays in Emmerdale or goes will become clear by February 2016 at latest when his contracted episodes get aired on TV. Ross and Debbie could then return as happy partners to our TV screens around mid-August 2016 onwards, following filming beginning for them around June 2016?

Just some thoughts and ideas.

[Dalesfan]

Charley Webb (Debbie) is currently pregnant with her second child, due to be born around December 2015. I wonder what her exit storyline will be? I imagine that Charley Webb will stop filming around October when the baby bump will be becoming very noticeable by then. Maybe it turns out that Debbie is carrying Ross' second child then (Moses is Ross' first child from Charity)? I assume that Charley Webb will be away from filming for 6 months after December so won't be filming again until June 2016 and we won't see her in TV episodes from about December 2015 until around mid-August 2016 onwards.

We now know that Ross is going to return to Emmerdale soon on TV after being reported as doing filming on-set up to at least last week. I imagine that Debbie could keep Pete out her life now as, from the episode on Tuesday 25th, she has become terrified of what he has shown her to be capable of in being so violent to Ross. She might also be getting flashbacks from the things which Cameron did when he was in her life previously?

Mike Parr claimed on his Twitter account on August 10th that he has a new job in London and has to do rehearsals for it but would not give further details about it. (I'm guessing it's a possible stage-play/Strictly Come Dancing type-of-show, but nothing too long-term. 6 months?) I don't think Mike Parr would lie about this new job to his fans so assume that it is for real but I wonder if this claim is incomplete and that his acting for Emmerdale is continuing at the same time at least for now? Maybe the new job isn't yet a full-time one but just involves rehearsing for some of the week, so he may be able to continue filming for Emmerdale for some other days during the week, but nothing like the 12-hour five-days-a-week schedule which the Emmerdale actors have been working as of late? If the new job is a stage-play which opens around November or filming for a TV show like Strictly for 6 months starts then, then he should be doing this as a full-time job with no time for acting for Emmerdale at the same time. As by then Charley Webb will be due to leave the soap to get ready for her baby, then maybe Ross and Debbie have a storyline involving them leaving Emmerdale together with Moses (and the unborn Ross child #2, if this exists then?), leaving Pete on Emmerdale as the man whose wife has finally left him? Anthony Quinlan's existing Emmerdale contract expires around December 2015, so whether he stays in Emmerdale or goes will become clear by February 2016 at latest when his contracted episodes get aired on TV. Ross and Debbie could then return as happy partners to our TV screens around mid-August 2016 onwards, following filming beginning for them around June 2016?

Just some thoughts and ideas.

My first thought was strictly or maybe some sort of play or stage show. Only because he mentioned rehearsals. I don't think he is still filming though and on twitter he talks about how he loved playing Ross etc. His latest reply to someone about how he had a lot of fun playing him. He also tweeted to the girl who was looking for him at the studios the other week to thank her for his presents as "Quinny finally gave me your presents" which sounds like Anthony and him have seen each other recently but then they are good friends so it wouldn't be unusual for them meeting up not necessarily at the studios. Is it possible in his final few weeks he filmed a lot of stuff. My theory was that also his exit would tie in with Charley going on maternity leave but then could Ross and her really make it work seeing as he is Moses dad? Is it possible they have filmed some stuff they could slot in for Debbie's exit, when the time comes? I thought maybe Mike would be on maybe a year break and if he wasn't doing much stuff by the end of that year he would come back. Maybe that is just wishful thinking though lol

[kennedyfan86]

Mike's still there I think, going back filming when he can whilst doing his 'time away' thing, I think he's still working there permanent and just signed up for something outwith. Unless the filming up to last week was to finish everything up cause they film everything out of order on different days. Either way I am now totally fed up with the agonising suspense

[maidmarian]

:)
She said yesterday "if that gloating red head we see on This Morning stood in front of me telling me Ross was dead I'd take it with a pinch of salt, she'd fail a lie detector on Jeremy Kyle"

Your mum.has a very apt turn of phrase!

Ive not heard her be interviewed- but
when I first saw pics of the "G R" in mags etc
I was looking round for a member of a
well- known press family - in the
background !!:)

Jezza would soon wipe the floor with her!
She'd get the lip curling sneer he reserves
for those he wouldnt believe when they told
him what day of the week it was( in their opinion)!

[Serena Williams]

Ross is not dead I suspect he is going to ask Lawrence for a favor
Michael Parr has to play the game to make fans believe Ross is dead. Also the spoilers already indicate the body at the morgue is not Ross.

[Serena Williams]

Ross is not dead I suspect he is going to ask Lawrence for a favor
Michael Parr has to play the game to make fans believe Ross is dead. Also the spoilers already indicate the body at the morgue is not Ross.

[kennedyfan86]

Ross is not dead I suspect he is going to ask Lawrence for a favor
Michael Parr has to play the game to make fans believe Ross is dead. Also the spoilers already indicate the body at the morgue is not Ross.

John Bowe told a fan on Twitter it was coming and they had to be patient after telling everyone to tune in for the next two months.
The body won't be Ross's cause James demands Pete to take him to where he left the body and in the pics it doesn't look like it's there to me, although how Pete could even remember the spot is beyond me

[kennedyfan86]

Ross is not dead I suspect he is going to ask Lawrence for a favor
Michael Parr has to play the game to make fans believe Ross is dead. Also the spoilers already indicate the body at the morgue is not Ross.

John Bowe told a fan on Twitter it was coming and they had to be patient after telling everyone to tune in for the next two months.
The body won't be Ross's cause James demands Pete to take him to where he left the body and in the pics it doesn't look like it's there to me, although how Pete could even remember the spot is beyond me

[kennedyfan86]

:)

Your mum.has a very apt turn of phrase!

Ive not heard her be interviewed- but
when I first saw pics of the "G R" in mags etc
I was looking round for a member of a
well- known press family - in the
background !!:)

Jezza would soon wipe the floor with her!
She'd get the lip curling sneer he reserves
for those he wouldnt believe when they told
him what day of the week it was( in their opinion)!

My mum can't stand Kate Oates, everytime she see's her be interviewed or at awards she says "there's something about that woman I don't like, I just feel like punching her"

[mariba]

The centre of this long advertised aftermath has been Ross-is he alive or not? Taking attention away from everything/everyone else.
Last week-just the week after the disaster, whole Emmerdale was just boring to watch, there was no one around(everyone on holiday??) and this Ross speculation kind of ruined it for me-all I could think of while watching, was just 'where's Ross? Why isn't anyone looking for him?' Now this week has been better, and we are fairly certain Ross will be back. At this stage-I couldn't care less to be honest. Fed up with the whole speculation now..
I only watch episodes-no spoilers at all. Much more enjoyable that way.

[mariba]

The centre of this long advertised aftermath has been Ross-is he alive or not? Taking attention away from everything/everyone else.
Last week-just the week after the disaster, whole Emmerdale was just boring to watch, there was no one around(everyone on holiday??) and this Ross speculation kind of ruined it for me-all I could think of while watching, was just 'where's Ross? Why isn't anyone looking for him?' Now this week has been better, and we are fairly certain Ross will be back. At this stage-I couldn't care less to be honest. Fed up with the whole speculation now..
I only watch episodes-no spoilers at all. Much more enjoyable that way.

[Serena Williams]

The centre of this long advertised aftermath has been Ross-is he alive or not? Taking attention away from everything/everyone else.
Last week-just the week after the disaster, whole Emmerdale was just boring to watch, there was no one around(everyone on holiday??) and this Ross speculation kind of ruined it for me-all I could think of while watching, was just 'where's Ross? Why isn't anyone looking for him?' Now this week has been better, and we are fairly certain Ross will be back. At this stage-I couldn't care less to be honest. Fed up with the whole speculation now..
I only watch episodes-no spoilers at all. Much more enjoyable that way.

I think the Ross Barton dead or alive is good for the show for suspense purposes . One of the complaints about soaps they are too predictable. The truth is the storis going on now are boring does anyone really care about the Jai, Megan, Leyla, Rachel storyline? The stars of the show are the Dingle family, the Sugden, and the Bartons. The show should have axed numerous characters lIke Sam, Kerry, and Dan they add nothing to the show they are irrelevant.

[Serena Williams]

The centre of this long advertised aftermath has been Ross-is he alive or not? Taking attention away from everything/everyone else.
Last week-just the week after the disaster, whole Emmerdale was just boring to watch, there was no one around(everyone on holiday??) and this Ross speculation kind of ruined it for me-all I could think of while watching, was just 'where's Ross? Why isn't anyone looking for him?' Now this week has been better, and we are fairly certain Ross will be back. At this stage-I couldn't care less to be honest. Fed up with the whole speculation now..
I only watch episodes-no spoilers at all. Much more enjoyable that way.

I think the Ross Barton dead or alive is good for the show for suspense purposes . One of the complaints about soaps they are too predictable. The truth is the storis going on now are boring does anyone really care about the Jai, Megan, Leyla, Rachel storyline? The stars of the show are the Dingle family, the Sugden, and the Bartons. The show should have axed numerous characters lIke Sam, Kerry, and Dan they add nothing to the show they are irrelevant.

[Kim]

Surprised it has taken this long for Debbie to get out of hospital. It's soapland and she looked fine at the end of last week!

Pete not being around as Ross's possessions were discovered was just odd. I think I'd have preferred seeing his guilt as he tried to think of a reasonable explanation for it.

(I don't remember seeing Pete last night anyway but I was on the phone while watching most of it.)

[mariba]

Pete was around last night-distant with Debbie again.

Serena Williams-we all have our prefences. I've always liked Kerry-one of my favorites(another complex-well used to be.. and interesting character). Dan and her are great together but it seems almost like Dan loved Ruby too much?? Seeing all his grieve..strange.
They should write some proper storyline for Sam when Rachel goes.

I really liked Emma's reaction last night when she started to realize that something had happened to Ross..It's every mother's nightmare, can easily relate to that. She's very good actress, hopefully they make her less crazy from now on..

[mariba]

Pete was around last night-distant with Debbie again.

Serena Williams-we all have our prefences. I've always liked Kerry-one of my favorites(another complex-well used to be.. and interesting character). Dan and her are great together but it seems almost like Dan loved Ruby too much?? Seeing all his grieve..strange.
They should write some proper storyline for Sam when Rachel goes.

I really liked Emma's reaction last night when she started to realize that something had happened to Ross..It's every mother's nightmare, can easily relate to that. She's very good actress, hopefully they make her less crazy from now on..

[Perdita]

Pete was around last night-distant with Debbie again.

Serena Williams-we all have our prefences. I've always liked Kerry-one of my favorites(another complex-well used to be.. and interesting character). Dan and her are great together but it seems almost like Dan loved Ruby too much?? Seeing all his grieve..strange.
They should write some proper storyline for Sam when Rachel goes.

I really liked Emma's reaction last night when she started to realize that something had happened to Ross..It's every mother's nightmare, can easily relate to that. She's very good actress, hopefully they make her less crazy from now on..
Not going to happen, mariba ... she will get even worse :eek:

[mariba]

I think now that Ross's body won't be found and he either comes back so that we can actually see him-but leaves the village. That way Pete and him would still meet each other and his family could see him, and Debbie+Moses.

Or that he stays missing and door is left open that way for him to return. Pete would stay as an outcast to his family for a long time and his personality would change to much darker.

I think he's left the soap by now anyway-even if he would have been filming in the last couple of weeks. Those are my thoughts..

That would be enough for me-as long as he would be alive. But 100% back would be better of course :)

[mariba]

I think now that Ross's body won't be found and he either comes back so that we can actually see him-but leaves the village. That way Pete and him would still meet each other and his family could see him, and Debbie+Moses.

Or that he stays missing and door is left open that way for him to return. Pete would stay as an outcast to his family for a long time and his personality would change to much darker.

I think he's left the soap by now anyway-even if he would have been filming in the last couple of weeks. Those are my thoughts..

That would be enough for me-as long as he would be alive. But 100% back would be better of course :)

[maidmarian]

Not going to happen, mariba ... she will get even worse :eek:

Definitely!!
They would have cast another actress - if there
was to be an "happy ending"!!

[mariba]

I think she's very good actress.
At the moment Emma is behaving like most mothers in that situation would, and she's very convincing with her emotions as an actress.
She's done some crazy stuff and I'm sure she will do more-but at the moment with this storyline, I like her.

[mariba]

I think she's very good actress.
At the moment Emma is behaving like most mothers in that situation would, and she's very convincing with her emotions as an actress.
She's done some crazy stuff and I'm sure she will do more-but at the moment with this storyline, I like her.

[kennedyfan86]

I think she's very good actress.
At the moment Emma is behaving like most mothers in that situation would, and she's very convincing with her emotions as an actress.
She's done some crazy stuff and I'm sure she will do more-but at the moment with this storyline, I like her.

Emma is meant to be an irritating, neurotic person, I think Gillian Kearney is just playing it that way. She was fab as Jessica Harrison in Casualty

[kennedyfan86]

I think she's very good actress.
At the moment Emma is behaving like most mothers in that situation would, and she's very convincing with her emotions as an actress.
She's done some crazy stuff and I'm sure she will do more-but at the moment with this storyline, I like her.

Emma is meant to be an irritating, neurotic person, I think Gillian Kearney is just playing it that way. She was fab as Jessica Harrison in Casualty

[Telly Watcher]

Here are the Sun's TV Soap magazine spoilers for Emmerdale for August 26th 2015

Sun's TV Soap magazine published on August 23rd 2015:
>
Wednesday August 26th 2015

Rachel leaves the village for Liverpool. Elsewhere, Pete is rejected by his family, Brenda smuggles a sim card into prison, and Emma and Finn search for Ross' body.
>

Emma and Finn search for Ross' body means that James and Pete didn't find Ross' body in the woods on Tuesday August 25th when they went looking for it and so Ross remains missing from at least Tuesday August 25th.

[mariba]

Why only Emma and Finn?
Surely if Pete and James won't find his body in the woods, at least James would be looking as well. UNLESS-James helps Pete to bury it properly and keeps it as a secret.
And IF they don't find his body there, what would James think? That Pete either can't remember where he dumped him or is lying or that in fact-Ross must be alive.

All this is still very puzzling..those spoilers don't give away anything..

[mariba]

Why only Emma and Finn?
Surely if Pete and James won't find his body in the woods, at least James would be looking as well. UNLESS-James helps Pete to bury it properly and keeps it as a secret.
And IF they don't find his body there, what would James think? That Pete either can't remember where he dumped him or is lying or that in fact-Ross must be alive.

All this is still very puzzling..those spoilers don't give away anything..

[Serena Williams]

Emma and Finn are the only people in the Barton family who love Ross unconditionally. Pete and James do not love him. I hope Michael Parr returns the show desperately needs him. Emmerdale needs young charismatic actors like Parr. It seems to me the writers are up to something. I give the show credit usually the spoilers are too predictable. The audience needs a shock.

[mariba]

Of course they do love him! I mean Pete and James too. They just find it more difficult to understand and love him than Finn(who has always had special bond with Ross) or Emma as a mother. Emma was away for years and James has brought up their three sons all by himself! Surely he knows what Ross is and still loves him. And whatever Pete did, doesn't change that they are still brothers and love each other-that's why he is struggling now too. It's all Debbie's fault what happened. She's been playing with Ross's heart right from the beginning and ever since Donna died(I remember-she was the first one to rush out from the pub to comfort Ross when Bob came there to break the news to Marlon)

[Serena Williams]

Of course they do love him! I mean Pete and James too. They just find it more difficult to understand and love him than Finn(who has always had special bond with Ross) or Emma as a mother. Emma was away for years and James has brought up their three sons all by himself! Surely he knows what Ross is and still loves him. And whatever Pete did, doesn't change that they are still brothers and love each other-that's why he is struggling now too. It's all Debbie's fault what happened. She's been playing with Ross's heart right from the beginning and ever since Donna died(I remember-she was the first one to rush out from the pub to comfort Ross when Bob came there to break the news to Marlon)

I find it hard to believe Pete lover Ross when he allegedly killed him that is certainly not love. Pete hates Ross and the father James is apathetic towards Ross. Ross has always felt his father does not love him the same way he does for Peter and Finn.

[Serena Williams]

Of course they do love him! I mean Pete and James too. They just find it more difficult to understand and love him than Finn(who has always had special bond with Ross) or Emma as a mother. Emma was away for years and James has brought up their three sons all by himself! Surely he knows what Ross is and still loves him. And whatever Pete did, doesn't change that they are still brothers and love each other-that's why he is struggling now too. It's all Debbie's fault what happened. She's been playing with Ross's heart right from the beginning and ever since Donna died(I remember-she was the first one to rush out from the pub to comfort Ross when Bob came there to break the news to Marlon)

I find it hard to believe Pete lover Ross when he allegedly killed him that is certainly not love. Pete hates Ross and the father James is apathetic towards Ross. Ross has always felt his father does not love him the same way he does for Peter and Finn.

[lizann]

pete is james golden boy ross is outcast black sheep bad boy

[mariba]

I find it hard to believe Pete lover Ross when he allegedly killed him that is certainly not love. Pete hates Ross and the father James is apathetic towards Ross. Ross has always felt his father does not love him the same way he does for Peter and Finn.

Family ties and love is stronger than that. Pete said to Debbie 'Of course I still love him, he's my brother! ' It was meant to be just a fight - to get it all out of their system - but he accidentally killed (??)him and then panicked. I can fully understand why Pete was so angry at him - he had been totally humiliated as a man at his own wedding in front of whole village and still Ross didn't have decency to keep his distance.
What comes to James and Pete as 'golden boy ' Ross bad boy. Ross has totally made it all himself, they don't expect anything else from him anymore as he's always been the one in some kind of trouble. That doesn't mean that James wouldn't love him, he just doesn't know how to help him to change his ways.
The same situation as in Corrie with Todd and Jason.

[mariba]

I find it hard to believe Pete lover Ross when he allegedly killed him that is certainly not love. Pete hates Ross and the father James is apathetic towards Ross. Ross has always felt his father does not love him the same way he does for Peter and Finn.

Family ties and love is stronger than that. Pete said to Debbie 'Of course I still love him, he's my brother! ' It was meant to be just a fight - to get it all out of their system - but he accidentally killed (??)him and then panicked. I can fully understand why Pete was so angry at him - he had been totally humiliated as a man at his own wedding in front of whole village and still Ross didn't have decency to keep his distance.
What comes to James and Pete as 'golden boy ' Ross bad boy. Ross has totally made it all himself, they don't expect anything else from him anymore as he's always been the one in some kind of trouble. That doesn't mean that James wouldn't love him, he just doesn't know how to help him to change his ways.
The same situation as in Corrie with Todd and Jason.

[mariba]

What I would actually like to see happening now would be Pete and Ross working out their differences somehow and totally both turn their backs to Debbie.

[Ruffed_lemur]

I find it hard to believe Pete lover Ross when he allegedly killed him that is certainly not love. Pete hates Ross and the father James is apathetic towards Ross. Ross has always felt his father does not love him the same way he does for Peter and Finn.

Totally agree. You shouldn't treat people you love like that.

[mariba]

You shouldn't-and yet it happens. That's called life. Things are not only black and white and love within family goes so much deeper than that. Pete hurts, he felt physically sick when he dumped Ross's body in the woods. He just suddenly found himself in a situation where there was no return.
Of course he should have called for help, but he made a huge stupid mistake when in panic. Whatever he did, doesn't take away the fact that he still loved or loves Ross, he just hated what he had done, he wanted to get him into his senses. But Ross is 'all or nothing' type of personality-nothing in between, falls so deeply and passionately when he does, that it's both scary and dangerous. Taking it after his mad mother perhaps? ;)
And that's why I like Ross-the complexity of his personality. :)

[mariba]

You shouldn't-and yet it happens. That's called life. Things are not only black and white and love within family goes so much deeper than that. Pete hurts, he felt physically sick when he dumped Ross's body in the woods. He just suddenly found himself in a situation where there was no return.
Of course he should have called for help, but he made a huge stupid mistake when in panic. Whatever he did, doesn't take away the fact that he still loved or loves Ross, he just hated what he had done, he wanted to get him into his senses. But Ross is 'all or nothing' type of personality-nothing in between, falls so deeply and passionately when he does, that it's both scary and dangerous. Taking it after his mad mother perhaps? ;)
And that's why I like Ross-the complexity of his personality. :)

[Ruffed_lemur]

You shouldn't-and yet it happens. That's called life. Things are not only black and white and love within family goes so much deeper than that. Pete hurts, he felt physically sick when he dumped Ross's body in the woods. He just suddenly found himself in a situation where there was no return.
Of course he should have called for help, but he made a huge stupid mistake when in panic. Whatever he did, doesn't take away the fact that he still loved or loves Ross, he just hated what he had done, he wanted to get him into his senses. But Ross is 'all or nothing' type of personality-nothing in between, falls so deeply and passionately when he does, that it's both scary and dangerous. Taking it after his mad mother perhaps? ;)
And that's why I like Ross-the complexity of his personality. :)

It seems like Pete is the mad one to me. His actions are not sane at all, whatever Ross did.

[maidmarian]

It seems like Pete is the mad one to me. His actions are not sane at all, whatever Ross did.

He has always seemed the most unstable to me-
apart from Mommie Dearest!
I do wonder if one might murder the other -
as things progress!

[maidmarian]

Dupl

[Telly Watcher]

I find it hard to believe Pete lover Ross when he allegedly killed him that is certainly not love. Pete hates Ross and the father James is apathetic towards Ross. Ross has always felt his father does not love him the same way he does for Peter and Finn.

I don't think Pete has liked Ross for a long time, most of the time they've just seemed to put up with each other. There always seems to have been rivalry between them over the last 2 years, they're opposites really and Ross has never been the hard-working steady farming type which Pete is, in fact I think Ross hates farming. Pete has tried setting Ross up for trouble before. For example, he tried to set up Ross for stealing cash back in June 2015 knowing that the police were about to visit the farm and look around. The Debbie/Ross affair (I just realised it could be called the 'dross' affair, haha!) was rivalry and competition in action between two opposite brothers, one seemingly passive, quiet and boring, the other other active, loud and wild. Which one was Debbie really going to have a chance of choosing at this point of her life?

There was more rivalry when Ross really tried to wreck Pete's wedding by putting the Ross/Debbie recorded conversation as the soundtrack to be played as Debbie walked up the aisle. The fight at the hospital was another example. What started as an angry fight between two males competing for one woman turned much darker when Pete didn't stop after Ross fell backwards, hit the back of his head on the raised paving slab and just lay there unconscious on the ground. If I'd been Pete and seen this happen in front of me, I'm certain that the alarm bells would have been ringing very loudly in my head at that point but I think that in Pete's case the adrenalin had already kicked in then and he couldn't stop as he then repeatedly punched Ross in the head (almost as a finishing 'coup de grace') whilst he was laying on the ground and out cold. After this, he got worried and checked for a neck pulse, couldn't find it and then got scared thinking he'd killed Ross. What happened next was certainly not love in any way. Pete decided to run and get the car to take Ross' body away. (Contrast this behavour of Pete's to that of Aaron's in Emmerdale village outside the village hall earlier when Aaron called over to trained nurse Emma that he couldn't find a pulse for Joanie and for whom Emma found a weak pulse). I think if Pete had had any love for Ross at that point then he would have gone into the hospital and got help, but he didn't. Even if Ross was dead, the hospital staff would have properly looked after the body and cared for it. Instead of this, Pete dropped his brother into the boot of a car, drove it miles away to a deserted wood, then carried Ross on his shoulders quite a way and then dropped him in a dirty ditch and just covered it with some branches and leaves. Yes Pete was sick then by a tree, but I think this was from fear and worry for himself, the physical exertion and stress. Pete's facial expression where he is looking at the body in the boot of the car at the hospital and at the body in the ditch in the woods can only be described as cold. Pete then drove back to his house in Emmerdale, disposed of his shoes and clothes in a bin bag for the refuse bin outside, changed into new clothes from the washer and then drove back to Hotten, showing up at the hospital after being about 2.5 hours away. So not exactly a good example of brotherly love really.

The Tuesday or Wednesday episode (August 25th/26th) this week is supposed to tell us if Ross remains missing or if James and Pete find Ross' dead body in the ditch. I think the ditch will be empty and that Ross will eventually return to the village and cause more rivalry between himself and Pete over Debbie. I suspect that Debbie will still not have Pete in her life much more then (if at all?) and that there will be more of the dross affair until Debbie leaves Emmerdale on our TV screens around Christmas 2015 for about 6 months for maternity leave (I suppose Charley Webb will have an obvious baby bump by October 2015 so this may be when she stops filming scenes). I wonder what Debbie's exit storyline will be. Perhaps Pete goes Cameron and causes Debbie/Ross/Moses to leave the village for months and months until Debbie can marry Ross and it's safer to return? Anything could happen next really.

[Telly Watcher]

Mike Parr still plays evasive on Twitter about whether Ross' body is found in the ditch in the woods on Emmerdale tonight.

twitter.com tweets from Monday August 24th 2015:

Andrea Pearson ‏@andypear_1981 16h
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Theory is body is not Ross, he's still alive but bang 2 head means he's 4got who he is! Am I close @MikeParrActor ??

Andrea Pearson added,
Emmerdale @emmerdale
TONIGHT: James and Emma IDENTIFY Ross's body? Watch a clip now! #Emmerdale http://bit.ly/1UXNNY2
>

Michael Parr ‏@MikeParrActor 16h
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@andypear_1981 I don't know mate. They stop sending you the scripts when you leave but I seriously doubt it
>

Source: https://twitter.com/MikeParrActor/with_replies

Question: "Theory is body is not Ross, he's still alive but bang 2 head means he's 4got who he is! Am I close ??"
Mike Parr: "I don't know mate. They stop sending you the scripts when you leave but I seriously doubt it"

This just comes across to me as ambiguous again.

First off, he appears to deny knowing if the body in the mortuary isn't Ross. Second off, he appears to deny knowing if Ross is still alive.

When he writes "I don't know mate", does he really mean something like 'I don't know (of any way in which I can possibly tell you what I know) mate'? "I don't know" is a classic reply for a police suspect when being questioned, the hope being that the police won't otherwise have enough evidence to prove the suspect's guilt. Mike Parr is very matey with all of the cast (him, Charley Webb and Anthony Quinlan come across as quite the 'inner circle' really) and filming for tonight's Emmerdale involved a lot of people in the storyline (James, Emma, Debbie, Finn, Pete, to name the main ones). I doubt if Mike knows nothing about the storyline. Plus, why have 'Michael and Anthony' been 'busy boys on-set these days' on the Emmerdale set up to at least week ending August 14th, doing what there exactly, as his character was dumped for dead in the ditch in the woods in the TV episode on August 6th, this being likely filmed around June 2015, about 6 weeks earlier?

Third off, he generalises when he says "They stop sending you the scripts when you leave". This is a true general statement about someone who has left but he didn't make it personal for himself and write 'They stopped sending me scripts when I left'

Fourth off, he says "I seriously doubt it". Does he mean he doubts if Ross is still alive, or if Ross has amnesia, or if the questioner isn't close in his suggestions, or does he really mean something like 'I seriously doubt it (is possible to answer you about this before tomorrow's episode gets screened on TV)'?

Everything still unclear.

Emmerdale screens the hour-long episode about James and Pete going to the woods tonight, Tuesday August 25th. If there isn't a cliffhanger ending lined up to keep viewers not knowing until tomorrow, then we'll find out tonight if Ross remains missing or is found dead. The majority of the news media for nearly the last three weeks now has so far stated Ross was killed off in the August 6th episode, but there are signs from several other reliable sources that we haven't seen the last of Ross yet.

e.g.
Sunday World, August 16th 2015, published an interview with Charley Webb, Mike Parr, Louise Marwood and Anthony Quinlan on the Emmerdale set during a weekday before August 16th:
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Michael and Anthony are busy boys on-set these days after the fall-out from the wedding revelations continue for Pete and Ross. "Two brothers, one woman...it's big", smiles Michael.
>

Source: https://twitter.com/sher222_sher/status/632974322332774400

[mariba]

I don't think Pete has liked Ross for a long time, most of the time they've just seemed to put up with each other. There always seems to have been rivalry between them over the last 2 years, they're opposites really and Ross has never been the hard-working steady farming type which Pete is, in fact I think Ross hates farming. Pete has tried setting Ross up for trouble before. For example, he tried to set up Ross for stealing cash back in June 2015 knowing that the police were about to visit the farm and look around. The Debbie/Ross affair (I just realised it could be called the 'dross' affair, haha!) was rivalry and competition in action between two opposite brothers, one seemingly passive, quiet and boring, the other other active, loud and wild. Which one was Debbie really going to have a chance of choosing at this point of her life?

There was more rivalry when Ross really tried to wreck Pete's wedding by putting the Ross/Debbie recorded conversation as the soundtrack to be played as Debbie walked up the aisle. The fight at the hospital was another example. What started as an angry fight between two males competing for one woman turned much darker when Pete didn't stop after Ross fell backwards, hit the back of his head on the raised paving slab and just lay there unconscious on the ground. If I'd been Pete and seen this happen in front of me, I'm certain that the alarm bells would have been ringing very loudly in my head at that point but I think that in Pete's case the adrenalin had already kicked in then and he couldn't stop as he then repeatedly punched Ross in the head (almost as a finishing 'coup de grace') whilst he was laying on the ground and out cold. After this, he got worried and checked for a neck pulse, couldn't find it and then got scared thinking he'd killed Ross. What happened next was certainly not love in any way. Pete decided to run and get the car to take Ross' body away. (Contrast this behavour of Pete's to that of Aaron's in Emmerdale village outside the village hall earlier when Aaron called over to trained nurse Emma that he couldn't find a pulse for Joanie and for whom Emma found a weak pulse). I think if Pete had had any love for Ross at that point then he would have gone into the hospital and got help, but he didn't. Even if Ross was dead, the hospital staff would have properly looked after the body and cared for it. Instead of this, Pete dropped his brother into the boot of a car, drove it miles away to a deserted wood, then carried Ross on his shoulders quite a way and then dropped him in a dirty ditch and just covered it with some branches and leaves. Yes Pete was sick then by a tree, but I think this was from fear and worry for himself, the physical exertion and stress. Pete's facial expression where he is looking at the body in the boot of the car at the hospital and at the body in the ditch in the woods can only be described as cold. Pete then drove back to his house in Emmerdale, disposed of his shoes and clothes in a bin bag for the refuse bin outside, changed into new clothes from the washer and then drove back to Hotten, showing up at the hospital after being about 2.5 hours away. So not exactly a good example of brotherly love really.

The Tuesday or Wednesday episode (August 25th/26th) this week is supposed to tell us if Ross remains missing or if James and Pete find Ross' dead body in the ditch. I think the ditch will be empty and that Ross will eventually return to the village and cause more rivalry between himself and Pete over Debbie. I suspect that Debbie will still not have Pete in her life much more then (if at all?) and that there will be more of the dross affair until Debbie leaves Emmerdale on our TV screens around Christmas 2015 for about 6 months for maternity leave (I suppose Charley Webb will have an obvious baby bump by October 2015 so this may be when she stops filming scenes). I wonder what Debbie's exit storyline will be. Perhaps Pete goes Cameron and causes Debbie/Ross/Moses to leave the village for months and months until Debbie can marry Ross and it's safer to return? Anything could happen next really.

Again..it's strange how differently we viewers watch soaps and read things, like their facial expressions, possible feelings and emotions.
Pete and Ross haven't been very close for a long time-but they were when they were young. If you remember what Pete saw when he was just a small boy(his mom trying to kill his baby brother)and he carried this secret with him for years. And when it did come out, they all turned against Emma. All three were close then. It was Ross's dodgy dealings with Donna and then Debbie who totally poisoned their brotherly relationship. If I had a brother like Ross I would find it really hard to love him as well and accept what he's doing, but deep down I still would I'm sure. And Pete did/does too, Ross was just winding him up bit too far..And even when Pete was punching him Ross said: 'Is that all you've got?!'
First I was disgusted too of what Pete did. That's because I was shocked to see Ross dead(that's what I thought then..) but I can see it all more objectively since, and from Pete's point of view also.
I find it strange that so many people see it so clearly only in black or white. That because Pete did this, he couldn't love his brother. He certainly didn't love him at that very moment, he hated him for what he had done. But he also didn't mean to kill him. Pete wasn't a fighter, Ross was-and maybe he didn't realize that he could actually beat his brother in a fight-that's why he was using all the strenght he possibly had while Ross was further challenging him in a way ' c'mon bring it on!' by saying ' is that all you've got?!' with a smirk on his face. Why didn't Ross step back and say he was sorry? No way, he had to further humiliate his brother.
It's all Debbie's doing. Why was she playing two brothers? And everyone treating her like a victim on this.

So-Pete really didn't think he could actually cause that much physical harm to him, as he had always seen Ross as the strong one who has always won all the fights. And he most likely didn't see what we saw-he didn't see him hitting his head, that's why he still kicked him when he was on the ground(which of course was too much and totally wrong). Then when he realized he couldn't feel the pulse, he panicked. The reality sank in 'what have I done?' I don't know-haven't been in that kind of situation but yes, would assume that you are firstly thinking of yourself-natural defence mechanism when you do something wrong. Not right thing to do, but quite natural.
He drove the body in the woods-and I could feel his pain when he was driving..I'm sure he was stressed, in panic, felt physically sick, sad all that...everything flashing in front of his eyes..

As I said-he didn't mean to kill his brother, it just happened.
Yes, he has committed couple of crimes so far. He started the fight(quite understandable though even though I'm so against any kind of violence and couldn't really watch their fight either..makes me sick), he didn't call for help, he dumped the 'body', he tried to put the blame on Cain and lied. But all this is just quite natural course of events for anyone who finds themselves in such circumstances I would imagine.
Human mind is scary but interesting.

[mariba]

I don't think Pete has liked Ross for a long time, most of the time they've just seemed to put up with each other. There always seems to have been rivalry between them over the last 2 years, they're opposites really and Ross has never been the hard-working steady farming type which Pete is, in fact I think Ross hates farming. Pete has tried setting Ross up for trouble before. For example, he tried to set up Ross for stealing cash back in June 2015 knowing that the police were about to visit the farm and look around. The Debbie/Ross affair (I just realised it could be called the 'dross' affair, haha!) was rivalry and competition in action between two opposite brothers, one seemingly passive, quiet and boring, the other other active, loud and wild. Which one was Debbie really going to have a chance of choosing at this point of her life?

There was more rivalry when Ross really tried to wreck Pete's wedding by putting the Ross/Debbie recorded conversation as the soundtrack to be played as Debbie walked up the aisle. The fight at the hospital was another example. What started as an angry fight between two males competing for one woman turned much darker when Pete didn't stop after Ross fell backwards, hit the back of his head on the raised paving slab and just lay there unconscious on the ground. If I'd been Pete and seen this happen in front of me, I'm certain that the alarm bells would have been ringing very loudly in my head at that point but I think that in Pete's case the adrenalin had already kicked in then and he couldn't stop as he then repeatedly punched Ross in the head (almost as a finishing 'coup de grace') whilst he was laying on the ground and out cold. After this, he got worried and checked for a neck pulse, couldn't find it and then got scared thinking he'd killed Ross. What happened next was certainly not love in any way. Pete decided to run and get the car to take Ross' body away. (Contrast this behavour of Pete's to that of Aaron's in Emmerdale village outside the village hall earlier when Aaron called over to trained nurse Emma that he couldn't find a pulse for Joanie and for whom Emma found a weak pulse). I think if Pete had had any love for Ross at that point then he would have gone into the hospital and got help, but he didn't. Even if Ross was dead, the hospital staff would have properly looked after the body and cared for it. Instead of this, Pete dropped his brother into the boot of a car, drove it miles away to a deserted wood, then carried Ross on his shoulders quite a way and then dropped him in a dirty ditch and just covered it with some branches and leaves. Yes Pete was sick then by a tree, but I think this was from fear and worry for himself, the physical exertion and stress. Pete's facial expression where he is looking at the body in the boot of the car at the hospital and at the body in the ditch in the woods can only be described as cold. Pete then drove back to his house in Emmerdale, disposed of his shoes and clothes in a bin bag for the refuse bin outside, changed into new clothes from the washer and then drove back to Hotten, showing up at the hospital after being about 2.5 hours away. So not exactly a good example of brotherly love really.

The Tuesday or Wednesday episode (August 25th/26th) this week is supposed to tell us if Ross remains missing or if James and Pete find Ross' dead body in the ditch. I think the ditch will be empty and that Ross will eventually return to the village and cause more rivalry between himself and Pete over Debbie. I suspect that Debbie will still not have Pete in her life much more then (if at all?) and that there will be more of the dross affair until Debbie leaves Emmerdale on our TV screens around Christmas 2015 for about 6 months for maternity leave (I suppose Charley Webb will have an obvious baby bump by October 2015 so this may be when she stops filming scenes). I wonder what Debbie's exit storyline will be. Perhaps Pete goes Cameron and causes Debbie/Ross/Moses to leave the village for months and months until Debbie can marry Ross and it's safer to return? Anything could happen next really.

Again..it's strange how differently we viewers watch soaps and read things, like their facial expressions, possible feelings and emotions.
Pete and Ross haven't been very close for a long time-but they were when they were young. If you remember what Pete saw when he was just a small boy(his mom trying to kill his baby brother)and he carried this secret with him for years. And when it did come out, they all turned against Emma. All three were close then. It was Ross's dodgy dealings with Donna and then Debbie who totally poisoned their brotherly relationship. If I had a brother like Ross I would find it really hard to love him as well and accept what he's doing, but deep down I still would I'm sure. And Pete did/does too, Ross was just winding him up bit too far..And even when Pete was punching him Ross said: 'Is that all you've got?!'
First I was disgusted too of what Pete did. That's because I was shocked to see Ross dead(that's what I thought then..) but I can see it all more objectively since, and from Pete's point of view also.
I find it strange that so many people see it so clearly only in black or white. That because Pete did this, he couldn't love his brother. He certainly didn't love him at that very moment, he hated him for what he had done. But he also didn't mean to kill him. Pete wasn't a fighter, Ross was-and maybe he didn't realize that he could actually beat his brother in a fight-that's why he was using all the strenght he possibly had while Ross was further challenging him in a way ' c'mon bring it on!' by saying ' is that all you've got?!' with a smirk on his face. Why didn't Ross step back and say he was sorry? No way, he had to further humiliate his brother.
It's all Debbie's doing. Why was she playing two brothers? And everyone treating her like a victim on this.

So-Pete really didn't think he could actually cause that much physical harm to him, as he had always seen Ross as the strong one who has always won all the fights. And he most likely didn't see what we saw-he didn't see him hitting his head, that's why he still kicked him when he was on the ground(which of course was too much and totally wrong). Then when he realized he couldn't feel the pulse, he panicked. The reality sank in 'what have I done?' I don't know-haven't been in that kind of situation but yes, would assume that you are firstly thinking of yourself-natural defence mechanism when you do something wrong. Not right thing to do, but quite natural.
He drove the body in the woods-and I could feel his pain when he was driving..I'm sure he was stressed, in panic, felt physically sick, sad all that...everything flashing in front of his eyes..

As I said-he didn't mean to kill his brother, it just happened.
Yes, he has committed couple of crimes so far. He started the fight(quite understandable though even though I'm so against any kind of violence and couldn't really watch their fight either..makes me sick), he didn't call for help, he dumped the 'body', he tried to put the blame on Cain and lied. But all this is just quite natural course of events for anyone who finds themselves in such circumstances I would imagine.
Human mind is scary but interesting.

[mariba]

And I hope Ross or Pete won't have anything to do with Debbie after this and Debbie ends up leaving the village on her own (even without kids).

[Perdita]

And I hope Ross or Pete won't have anything to do with Debbie after this and Debbie ends up leaving the village on her own (even without kids).

She will leave the village, with or without kids and husband or lover, will be interesting to see and how they are going to get her to return after Charlie´s maternity leave

[Telly Watcher]

Again..it's strange how differently we viewers watch soaps and read things, like their facial expressions, possible feelings and emotions.
Pete and Ross haven't been very close for a long time-but they were when they were young. If you remember what Pete saw when he was just a small boy(his mom trying to kill his baby brother)and he carried this secret with him for years. And when it did come out, they all turned against Emma. All three were close then. It was Ross's dodgy dealings with Donna and then Debbie who totally poisoned their brotherly relationship. If I had a brother like Ross I would find it really hard to love him as well and accept what he's doing, but deep down I still would I'm sure. And Pete did/does too, Ross was just winding him up bit too far..And even when Pete was punching him Ross said: 'Is that all you've got?!'
First I was disgusted too of what Pete did. That's because I was shocked to see Ross dead(that's what I thought then..) but I can see it all more objectively since, and from Pete's point of view also.
I find it strange that so many people see it so clearly only in black or white. That because Pete did this, he couldn't love his brother. He certainly didn't love him at that very moment, he hated him for what he had done. But he also didn't mean to kill him. Pete wasn't a fighter, Ross was-and maybe he didn't realize that he could actually beat his brother in a fight-that's why he was using all the strenght he possibly had while Ross was further challenging him in a way ' c'mon bring it on!' by saying ' is that all you've got?!' with a smirk on his face. Why didn't Ross step back and say he was sorry? No way, he had to further humiliate his brother.
It's all Debbie's doing. Why was she playing two brothers? And everyone treating her like a victim on this.

So-Pete really didn't think he could actually cause that much physical harm to him, as he had always seen Ross as the strong one who has always won all the fights. And he most likely didn't see what we saw-he didn't see him hitting his head, that's why he still kicked him when he was on the ground(which of course was too much and totally wrong). Then when he realized he couldn't feel the pulse, he panicked. The reality sank in 'what have I done?' I don't know-haven't been in that kind of situation but yes, would assume that you are firstly thinking of yourself-natural defence mechanism when you do something wrong. Not right thing to do, but quite natural.
He drove the body in the woods-and I could feel his pain when he was driving..I'm sure he was stressed, in panic, felt physically sick, sad all that...everything flashing in front of his eyes..

As I said-he didn't mean to kill his brother, it just happened.
Yes, he has committed couple of crimes so far. He started the fight(quite understandable though even though I'm so against any kind of violence and couldn't really watch their fight either..makes me sick), he didn't call for help, he dumped the 'body', he tried to put the blame on Cain and lied. But all this is just quite natural course of events for anyone who finds themselves in such circumstances I would imagine.
Human mind is scary but interesting.

I re-watched the hospital scenes yesterday on catch-up TV.

Yes, I agree that "Ross was just winding him up bit too far. And even when Pete was punching him Ross said: 'Is that all you've got?!". This is Ross displaying his macho superman persona. So many young males have this very commonly-believed indestructible image about themselves, but more of these than just a few end up dead before age 25yo, even in my own life experience. I have lost count of the number of young males I've known in my life who haven't reached 25yo through violent stabbings/car crashes/suicides/etc. These young people have maybe lost about 50 years of their lives, marriage, kids, careers, etc. Just awful and completely pointless.

As I re-watched the hospital scenes, it really struck me how unpleasant Ross was as a soap character lately on-screen. Selfish, a taker, nasty, a wanter who just wanted to want, disrespectful of other people's property/relationships. Even the most ardent Ross fan would, I think, realise that he had a really bad side. Even so, I really don't think that Ross would even think of doing anything like Pete subsequently did to his own brother after Ross hit his head on the paving slab in the hospital grounds.

The more I see the video replays and think about this storyline about what Pete did to Ross from between being together at the hospital and being at the woods, the worse it gets for me. An elder brother doing this to a younger one. I think that the storyline is just completely dreadful. I really don't think there has been such a dreadful Emmerdale storyline for a long time. The scene at the hospital where Pete punched unconscious/'dead' Ross in the head on the ground five times was so bad that the producers even blurred out these images from TV altogether!

The fighting scene between Ross and Pete I could understand, most brothers do this over competitive issues sooner or later, in my own experience anyway, especially when they are young and have no concept of the consequences of their actions. But Pete and Ross were 20-30+yo guys. If anything, I think Pete should have been flattered that Ross wanted Debbie but realised that Debbie choose Pete to walk up the aisle for in church. For Ross to subsequently show up at the hospital (where Debbie could have been dying as far as Pete knew then at that moment) was not exactly well-timed. Talk about red rag to a bull. Even so, I reckon that Pete should have accepted that Ross cared for Debbie and left it at that.

I really don't think that any sort of caring brother would have done what Pete did to Ross after the fight at the hospital, I reckon. In fact, I think that, in some ways, Ross is/was a much better person that Pete is, even if Ross was usually perceived as the bad lad. I really can't remember Ross doing or thinking of doing anything like the dreadful things which Pete did to Ross in the episode dated August 6th 2015.

I stand by what I wrote earlier.

Telly Watcher wrote on 25-08-15:
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What started as an angry fight between two males competing for one woman turned much darker when Pete didn't stop after Ross fell backwards, hit the back of his head on the raised paving slab and just lay there unconscious on the ground. If I'd been Pete and seen this happen in front of me, I'm certain that the alarm bells would have been ringing very loudly in my head at that point but I think that in Pete's case the adrenalin had already kicked in then and he couldn't stop as he then repeatedly punched Ross in the head (almost as a finishing 'coup de grace') whilst he was laying on the ground and out cold. After this, he got worried and checked for a neck pulse, couldn't find it and then got scared thinking he'd killed Ross. What happened next was certainly not love in any way. Pete decided to run and get the car to take Ross' body away. (Contrast this behavour of Pete's to that of Aaron's in Emmerdale village outside the village hall earlier when Aaron called over to trained nurse Emma that he couldn't find a pulse for Joanie and for whom Emma found a weak pulse). I think if Pete had had any love for Ross at that point then he would have gone into the hospital and got help, but he didn't. Even if Ross was dead, the hospital staff would have properly looked after the body and cared for it. Instead of this, Pete dropped his brother into the boot of a car, drove it miles away to a deserted wood, then carried Ross on his shoulders quite a way and then dropped him in a dirty ditch and just covered it with some branches and leaves. Yes Pete was sick then by a tree, but I think this was from fear and worry for himself, the physical exertion and stress. Pete's facial expression where he is looking at the body in the boot of the car at the hospital and at the body in the ditch in the woods can only be described as cold. Pete then drove back to his house in Emmerdale, disposed of his shoes and clothes in a bin bag for the refuse bin outside, changed into new clothes from the washer and then drove back to Hotten, showing up at the hospital after being about 2.5 hours away. So not exactly a good example of brotherly love really.
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[suzewebb]

Ross isnt where pete left him...therefore he must be alive. Yey

[suzewebb]

Ross isnt where pete left him...therefore he must be alive. Yey

Hes alive. Finally!

[uberfan]

How Ridiculous ! I am sick of the Scriptwriters treating the watching public and the Police as Morons. Ross Barton was reported missing, Cain was interviewed. One of the First things the Police would do in a misper case, is check the hospitals, they would have an up to date photo, so Ross would have been found very easily.
Am I the only one getting fed up with the way the Police & viewing public are expected to believe this Tosh !

[uberfan]

How Ridiculous ! I am sick of the Scriptwriters treating the watching public and the Police as Morons. Ross Barton was reported missing, Cain was interviewed. One of the First things the Police would do in a misper case, is check the hospitals, they would have an up to date photo, so Ross would have been found very easily.
Am I the only one getting fed up with the way the Police & viewing public are expected to believe this Tosh !