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Emmerdale’s Michael Parr on shock twist: “Ross is alive and wants revenge!”

Published Tuesday, 25th August 2015, 20:00pm By SoapSquawk


Emmerdale bosses aired a shocking twist in tonight’s episode as it was revealed Ross Barton is alive!

Fans had feared the villager had been killed by his brother Pete Barton, but what Pete didn’t realise when he dumped Ross’ body in the woods was that it wasn’t dead!

And after leaving him alone a walker discovered Ross and took him to a local hospital where he’s been recovering ever since.

As he had no phone or wallet on him when he was dumped, the hospital don’t know Ross’ identity which is why the Barton family are clueless to his fate.

Here Michael Parr, who plays Ross, admits it’s been tough keeping the secret but hopes fans loved the twist.


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Ross awake in hospital

>How has it been keeping the twist a secret?

It’s been difficult, but ultimately it’s been fun and exciting! Even having to lie to family, also people aren’t idiots so some of my family who didn’t know have been asking me what I’ve been up to, I’ve been making lies up, like saying I’ve been working in a hotel to get around it. It’s been good. There’s been a bit of speculation that Ross wasn’t dead so I was trying to throw them off by tweeting lies that I had an audition. It’s been a lot of fun!

>How long have you known about the twist?

I found out a good few months ago. Anthony Quinlan had this meeting with Kate Oates where she told him what was going on and he looked shell-shocked from what he had just found out. He wouldn’t tell me, which started to make me panic, he said he couldn’t tell me and I had to speak to Kate. Automatically I started to fear the worst. Then when she told me I was chuffed to bits, I thought it was another great storyline and the fact that it seemed to have worked means it’s paid off.

>What lengths have you been to in order to keep this a secret?

I’ve been sneaking in and out of the building. I even walked home in one of the costume coats the other day because there were a few people outside the studio. I couldn’t get in and out of the building without being seen.

>Did any of your family and friends fall for it?

It was funny, I got so many different reactions. Some people were like, ‘You’ll get something soon, something bigger!’, or people said I would get a film off the back of it and I was thinking, ‘No, I won’t’ because I am still under contract at Emmerdale. Loads of people were tweeting me making stuff up like how I had signed a contract in August, but I hadn’t. It’s been very positive.


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This is the moment Ross walks back into the Barton house!

>How do you think fans will take the twist?

Hopefully they’ll like it and not go, ‘Bloody hell, he’s back, I hated that character!’. Everyone seems to be genuinely annoyed so hopefully people will be excited by the twist.

>The hospital don’t know Ross’ identity, what’s going to happen next?

He’s in a lot of pain, he’s got to recover and get his head together. Ultimately he’s got two things on his mind - revenge and where is the love of his life? He doesn’t know what’s really gone on, he can’t remember too much. The doctor tells him what happened, he says he was either attacked by a large animal or someone was trying to kill you. So Ross is furious, it’s a pretty cold thing to do to anyone, let alone your little brother. I think Ross has always been painted as the bad one but he’s never done this to anyone.

>Will he go after Debbie or Pete first?

I think getting Debbie will be his revenge!
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