Ross Barton (Michael Parr)

[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]

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[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/sta...74322332774400

[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/sta...74322332774400

shaine1811 wrote:
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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'
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dalesfan wrote:
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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
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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:
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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
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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'

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:
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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.
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(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.

[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