Ross Barton (Michael Parr)

[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
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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.\"



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/...=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.

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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/...=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! 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! 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! 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! 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