Emmerdale’s storylines will all be blowing up soon (Picture: Metro.co.uk/ITV/Getty)
It’s no secret that if you live in Emmerdale, your life will always be at risk – and this summer is no different, with an explosive stunt rocking the village, but who will live and who will die?
Given that this is the soap of mega-storms, motorway pile-ups and exploding speedboats, there’s no risk of them not going all out with some bells and whistles.
In coming weeks, storylines will build to a crescendo, with a big week of episodes then centring on blockbuster moment and gripping aftermath.
New Emmerdale producer Sophie Roper was holding a lot of her cards close to her chest but teased to Metro.co.uk: ‘We’ve got a lot of stunts coming up! Some we’re actually due to be filming this week…
‘I’m not going to tell you too much, but what I can tell you is there will be fire engines involved, so take from that what you will. It’s going to be a really explosive week of Emmerdale.’
And, let it be noted that she did put a heavy emphasis on the word ‘explosive,’ which suggests things are going to be heating up.
But which residents will be having a blast – and who will be reduced to ashes?
The boss – who has taken the role alongside Laura Shaw after seven years as a story producer – was a lot less cagey about what else is going on, from the latest in Tom King’s (James Chase) abuse of Belle Dingle (Eden Taylor-Draper), a shocking turn of events for Caleb and Ruby Miligan (William Ash and Beth Cordingly) and the dramatic return of Ella Forster (Paula Lane).
Tom’s horrific abuse of trapped Belle will get even worse (Picture: ITV)
Don’t expect things to calm down for Ruby and Caleb any time soon (Picture: ITV)
In fact, with Belle and Tom, their storyline will be a heavy focus for another, separate special episode in the not too distant future.
‘Belle and Tom – that’s obviously a huge storyline for us at the moment, an incredibly important if not difficult storyline to watch at moments. It’s resonating with our audience because it’s such a huge, real issue,’ Sophie continued.
‘We’re continuing with that story and trying to be really truthful to those kind of relationships. We’ve got a special episode coming up that sees Tom and Belle head off to Wales on a trip away together.
‘Actually we recreated Wales in Yorkshire with our fantastic design team. We’ve got a cottage up in the village that we’ve re-dressed and made this beautiful Welsh retreat.
‘It’s really fantastic the lengths that they’ve gone to to create that in our world. The story, of course, though set to the backdrop of this beautiful cottage, will be really hard-hitting and difficult at moments.
‘Tom is very much isolating Belle from her family, from her surroundings, from everything that she knows and loves, which is very much unfortunately a typical trait of abusers.
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