#emmerdale ladies

[themackenzieboydchronicles]

Pic of the Day.lucy Pargeta aka Chas Dingle.

#pic of the day #chas dingle #lucy pargeter #emmerdale ladies

[harrietxfinch]

harriet finch (first and last lines)

#emmerdale #ed ladies #emmerdale ladies #harriet finch #katherine dow blyton #gif #gif set #mine #british #tv #drama #soap #character

[lexotp]

Tracy & Caleb are grim I can't wait until the self satisfied smirks are wiped from their smug faces.

#William ash #Whatever the blonde grinning lady is called #emmerdale

[emmerdale-character-bracket]

Round 1

#emmerdale #poll #Nikhil Sharma #Lady Tara Thornfield

[scrapyardboyfriends]

Did they really make a trailer for this whodunnit with the Pretty Little Liars theme song? Hahaha.

#emmerdale complaints corner #they really know how to trivialize a rape story don't they #why couldn't they just have Lydia speaking up make the secretary/assistant lady brave enough to finally come forward #and have that get Craig sent down #that would have been both a good message to the viewers and actually been a fresh take on their incessant need to tell rape stories #but no...we have to have a Dingle special whodunnit #sigh #And Aaron's got a crowbar in the trailer for...reasons? #He's probably just beating up scrap at the scrapyard again or something to fight his feelings

[winter-doggo]

Something I am curious about

#poll #I don't like Emmerdale whatsoever but know people that do #It's a pretty huge thing here in Britain #but I don't often hear about it outside of like. chatter with old ladies #so i assume that it is not at all on the radar of americans. doubly so my silly little creature corner #but I've been wrong before so I'm curious on that statistic #If you are not from UK or US you can specify your country in the notes if you like

[beautifulfaaces]

Eve Austin

Facts

English actress

Filmography

Kay [Our Ladies: 2019]

Neisha [The Athena: 2018-2019]

Tabitha [Emmerdale Farm: 2017]

Frankie [In the Flesh: 2014]

Appearance

blonde

blue eyes

1.57m

Roleplay

playable: teenager, young adult

#Eve Austin #fem english #our ladies #the athena #emmerdale farm #in the flesh #blonde fem teen #blonde fem young #blue eyes fem teen #blue eyes fem young #teenager female #young adult female

[consanguinitatum]

David Tennant's Obscure TV Appearances: 1989's Biting The Hands

I'm back from my visit with my family and ready to dive straight into my latest find - I'm excited to share I've finally obtained access to David's 3rd earliest TV performance! His first two performances were in 1988: his anti-smoking ad, and in Dramarama: The Secret Of Croftmore. And in 1989 he did a Play On One called Biting The Hands. And I've FINALLY got it! Biting The Hands has been one of the most elusive pieces of work David did in his early years. First, it wasn't a sitcom or an ad but a one-off play, and it was broadcast in the late 1980s, limiting its exposure to those who might be recording on beta or VHS. It was part of the second series of the prime-time contemporary single TV play series, The Play On One (which was itself a re-tooling of an older series called The Play For Today.) Biting The Hands was directed by Carol Wilks and produced by Norman McCandlish. It was 75 mins in length, and was broadcast at 9:30 pm on 11 Apr 1989. Here's the play's synopsis: "Linda and Gail are Hell's Belles - an alternative comedy double act. When success begins to beckon, they must decide whether to change their act or keep doing what they believe in. Are their principles justified, or are they just 'biting the hand that feeds them'?"

The writer of Biting The Hands, Rona Munro, was born in Aberdeen in 1959 and is an award-winning Scottish playwright. She started writing professionally in 1981 and has written for film, television, stage and radio. Biting The Hands was Munro's first play for BBC-TV. Given today's excitement about the Doctor Who 60th Anniversary trailer, it might interest Whovians to know Munro wrote the classic DW story Survival as well as the New Who story The Eaters of Light, making her the first (and only!) writer to do both Classic and New Who!

But Munro has yet ANOTHER connection with our dear DT! For their production of Scotland Matters in 1992, the 7:84 Scottish People's Theatre asked established Scottish writers to consider aspects of life in Scotland and write playlets about them. Munro was one of these writers! She wrote a playlet called 'The Fence' for Scotland Matters which concerned the interrogation of a Gulf War peace protester. In a turn around of questioning technique, we are told the story through the security police and not via the protester. David played the protester Keith!

But back to Biting The Hands - which was produced three years before Scotland Matters and filmed when David was still in drama school. Let's take a look at what the play was about, and go more in depth about its stars: Judith Sweeney (Linda) and Louise Beattie (Gail).

Judith Sweeney (Linda McKay) attended David's alma mater - the RSAMD, now the Royal Conservatoire - and graduated in 1977. She played the role of Sally Shaw on the Scottish soap opera Take The High Road. Louise Beattie (Gail Graham) later went on to star in Emmerdale.

Here are a few more articles on "Biting The Hands" from the time of its broadcast:

Beattie's older sister Maureen has ALSO starred with DT many times! Among these are For One Night Only (an evening of theatrical prose, poetry, and gossip at the Swan Theatre for the 1998 RSC Fringe Festival) and a 2001 staged reading of Medea at the Cottesloe Theatre. More recently, Maureen has played David’s mother in Deadwater Fell, and Kelly MacDonald's mother in The Decoy Bride!

Now we've been introduced to the stars of the play, and we know what it's about, let's get to David's part! His part begins about 47 minutes into the play, and it's a role which makes up a total of about 20 whole seconds. He plays one of three squaddies (low-ranking military) and is in a group of soldiers who travel on the train the main characters Linda and Gail board in Edinburgh to go to London - but he's not seen in this particular scene. After the ladies board the return train back home to Edinburgh, by coincidence these same squaddies happen to be traveling on their train. David's character is the only one of the squaddies to speak, and his words entail wolf-whistles at the two women and calling them "Pet"! Here are some screenshots:

In a later scene, Linda and Gail happen to bump into another friend on the train, and the three open a bottle of liquor and sing and drink. David's character sings and drinks with them. Here are a few screenshots of that short scene:

You may notice in the first set of screenshots David is clean shaven & in the second, he sports a mustache. These scenes all supposedly occur on the same train from London to Edinburgh so it seems there's a continuity error here. Perhaps these scenes were shot at different times?

These short scenes are the only times David appears in the play. He's given credit in the end titles. Of significance, though, is he is NOT credited as the "Third Squaddie" (a designation I've seen all over the Internet for close to a decade). He's just the third squaddie listed.

The BFI (British Film Institute) holds a VHS video recording of Biting The Hands. The copy is in "pending" status, which means it's unlikely the copy can be viewed.

Before I close this post on Biting The Hands, two more little benefits: here are its opening sequence, and its title frame!

#DavidTennant #ObscureDavidTennantPerformances #BitingTheHands

[scotianostra]

Happy Birthday Scottish actress Sandra Voe born on Shetland on 6th 1936.

Other than the fact she was born on Shetland, where her father owned a fishing factory, there is little I can tell you about Sandra’s early life. However she has been a very busy lady, appearing in many TV shows over the past 50 odd years Voe began her on screen career in 1966, appearing in an episode of Dr. Finlay’s Casebook.

Her shows in the 70’s include Coronation Street, Emmerdale Farm, Within These Walls and Sounding Brass, during the 80’s on TV and film, Bread or Blood, The Practice, Open all Hours and Local Hero, the 90’s saw her in the brilliant Takin’ Over the Asylum, which seems to crop up in a few of our anniversaries and another regular show on my posts Taggart, over into the 21st century and oor Sandra was still working hard, the pick of 15 different shows and films were Playing the Field, Midsomer Murders, Foyles War, and of course Monarch of the Glen .In 1993 she was also in the gritty film Naked, which also starred Ewan Bremner, Spud in the Trainspotting films.In the past 8 years Sandra Voe, now in her 70’s shows no sign of slowing down, Holby City, Howards end, in 2013, inevitably she turned up in her home Islands on the superb Shetland. Just this year Sandra has chalked up a couple of appearances on the hit series, Vikings as a witch

As well as the many, many TV and film roles she has also been a regular treading the boards at some of the top Theatres, including Sheffield Crucible, Leicester Phoenix, Leicester Haymarket, Oxford Playhouse, Birmingham Rep, Manchester Royal Exchange, West Yorkshire Playhouse, Nottingham Playhouse, Bristol Old Vic, Bloomsbury, Hampstead, Lyric Hammersmith, Almeida, Bush, Shared Experience, RNT, Royal Court and Ambassadors.

Her daughter, Candida Doyle, was keyboard player with the '90s British pop band Pulp, her son, Magnus Doyle, was Pulp's drummer. Sandra was last on our screens in the very good mini-series Trigonometry.

Recently Sandra has been reliving her Local Hero experience when she makes a return trip to the north-east for the 40th anniversary of the film. She has teamed up with fellow actors Jimmy Yuill, Jonathan Watson and Tam Dean Burn and met school children from Banff Academy and Fraserburgh Academy.

Sandra said: “It’s wonderful to be coming back. The place and the community is conjured up so well by Bill Forsyth that you really believe it.”

#scotland #scottish #actress #happy birthday

[madandi]

From The Times

article about the new song: "Thank you mother"

At 16 Amy Nuttall became the youngest understudy for the lead role of Christine in The Phantom of the Opera, then a year later she joined the ITV soap Emmerdale and stayed for five years. The Lancashire-born actress has since appeared in Hotel Babylon, Downton Abbey, Death in Paradise and, most recently, Mr Bates vs the Post Office. On stage she has been in My Fair Lady, Boeing-Boeing, Cabaret and Spamalot. Now 41, Nuttall is married to the actor Andrew Buchan. They live with their nine-year-old daughter and five-year-old son in Buckinghamshire.

How much is in your wallet?

No one carries cash now — everything is cashless. I did get caught short last year when my daughter lost a tooth unexpectedly. I had no money for the tooth fairy. Luckily my neighbour came to the rescue but now I always make sure I have pound coins in my wallet. Apart from that, all I have is my driver’s licence, Tesco Clubcard, Boots card, Caffè Nero stamp card and my debit card.

What credit cards do you use?

I don’t own any. When I joined Emmerdale I came home to visit my parents and for some reason I’d got myself a credit card and I was telling my dad about it and he made me get it out, got a pair of scissors and said, “Right, I want you to cut it up in front of me. Take my advice. Do not go down that road.” And it’s just stuck with me. I’ve never had one since. I think my dad knew that it would basically give me the opportunity to spend money I didn’t have, so I think it was very wise advice.

Are you a saver or a spender?

I’d love to say I’m a saver. I think I started out really well but I have become a bit of a spender. It’s mainly on my children. When I started out, aged 16, touring in The Phantom of the Opera, my first pay cheque was £500 a week, which was an absolute fortune for someone that age. I remember we were rehearsing in London before we went on tour, and I needed some new trainers, so I went to Schuh in Covent Garden. And I’ve never forgotten that feeling of buying my own trainers with my own money — and still having money in my account. After that I barely spent a penny, other than on accommodation and food. I don’t know where that girl went, as I really enjoy spending now. Back then I was very cautious. I just wish I’d had the foresight to put that money into property.

How much did you earn last year?

I’m an actress, self-employed, so it varies substantially from year to year. Sometimes I get surprise emails from my agent about royalties, saying, “Downton Abbey has been sold to this country,” or whatever, and they’re always nice little happy surprises. But generally speaking, in the last financial year — what can I tell you? — below a hundred grand, but I’m married so it all goes into one pot. So it’s not as scary because I can lean on that. People may have thought that being in Downtown Abbey meant I could put my rates up, but it’s really not the case. I always seem to land jobs where they tell you there isn’t any money in the pot. And then you find out who the lead is and you think, ah, all the money is going to that person. So it’s really not as lucrative as people perceive.

I sing too. I recently released a song called Thank You Mother, to raise money for the Brain Tumour Charity. That won’t see any personal return, but that’s fine as I want all the money to go to the charity. Overall I’m used to not knowing how things will be financially. It’s that excitement of not knowing what’s around the corner — maybe that big job with lots of money is going to turn up. That hasn’t happened yet, but you never know.

Have you ever been really hard up?

I started off well with Phantom and then Emmerdale, but when I was 22 I left and moved to London. Soon after I bought my first property in Ladbroke Grove [west London] but stupidly bought one that I was unable to sublet. I’d really stretched myself to the limit to buy it and I was relying on being in work to pay my mortgage and bills. I was the lead in Cabaret in the West End at the time, but it was a massive drop in earnings after Emmerdale and I just couldn’t cover everything, so I had to put the flat on the market. I had to move out a week after I finished Cabaret and rent a room in a flat and put all my furniture into storage. It was devastating.

Do you own a property?

I’m the joint owner of our comfortable family home in Buckinghamshire. We owned a smaller house before.

Are you better off than your parents?

I’d say my dad is probably better off than me. He recently retired but he was a criminal barrister and a judge. I have no idea how much money he earned but he was always extremely cautious and never spent money on five-star hotels. My mum was a hairdresser when they met and then did interior design for a while. Things were comfortable and my dad paid for all three of us to have a private secondary education.

Do you invest in shares?

I don’t and it’s not something I’ve ever thought about. I don’t know enough about it.

What is better for retirement, property or pension?

A bit of both. It probably changes from year to year but I think it would be safer to have a bit of property, a bit of pension.

What has been your best investment?

My house, my health and my children — not in that order.

And the worst?

I’ve not really made any great investments but I can’t think of anything that has been significantly bad either.

The most extravagant thing you’ve bought?

I bought my mum a Louis Vuitton bag because she did everything for my wedding. I just turned up on the day, which was great. I wasn’t particularly interested in doing it — she did it all. So I bought her a beautiful cream Louis Vuitton handbag, which cost about £2,000, which is an insane amount of money.

What is your money weakness?

Food, probably. I’m quite lazy, especially with the grim weather we’ve had lately. I just want to get out of the house and go to a cosy café to eat stuff I could easily make at home. My other weakness is [the homeware store] Homesense — I’m an absolute sucker for kitchen paraphernalia. Whether it’s another teapot or candle I don’t need, I’m there.

What is your financial priority?

My children. We’re a way off secondary school yet, though, so we’ll see what happens.

What would you do if you won the lottery?

First, I wouldn’t broadcast it. I’d share it among family, and I’d love to have the luxury of giving away a chunk of money to the Brain Tumour Charity. If there was any left to spoil myself, I’d love to be mortgage-free. I’d love a big house in the country with an Aga and a dog, and a holiday home in Tuscany. That would be lovely.

Do you support any charities?

I’m a patron of the Brain Tumour Charity — my mother passed away from a glioblastoma brain tumour in October, and I’ll be donating all the proceeds from Thank You Mother to them. It’s a song we played a lot at home in my mother’s final weeks. It was a very emotional time and the words in the song are very poignant to my relationship with my mum. I knew straight away that I had to do something to raise awareness of this terrible disease.

What is the most important lesson you’ve learnt about money?

That you never have enough, that it goes pretty quickly and that it doesn’t bring you true happiness. And like my parents said to me, “If you look after the pennies, the pounds will follow.” All proceeds from Thank You Mother by Amy Nuttall go to the Brain Tumour Charity

#braintumorcharity

[littlequeenies]

Katie Geraldine Scarfe (b. April 17th, 1974) is an English stage, radio, TV & voice actress, the oldest daughter of actress Jane Asher and her husband cartoonist Gerald Scarfe. Katie has two younger brothers, artist Alex Scarfe and book editor Rory Christopher Scarfe. She also has two elder half-siblings, Rupert and Araminta Scarfe from her father's previous relationships.

She graduated from Bristol University in 1995. She trained at LAMDA (London Academy of Music & Dramatic Art; BA (Hons) Acting, 2007-2009). Credits whilst at LAMDA include Maria in "Twelfth Night (2008), Lady Bracknell in "The Importance of Being Earnest" (2009), Molly in "Passport to Pimlico" (2009), "The Girl in The Blue Room" (2009), u/s Pattie and Rachel in "Season's Greetings" (National Theatre, 2010/11).

Her theatre career includes "Just Whores" (New Venture Theatre, summer 2003), "Freakshow", as Eve (New Venture Theatre, fall 2003), her role of Constanze in "Amadeus" ( New Venture Theatre, Brighton, 2005), her role of Richmond in "Richard III" (Brighton Festival, 2007), her role of The Duchess in "Mercury Fur" (Old Red Lion, Trafalgar Studios, 2012) and her role of the Queen in "Beyond Beauty" (Rebel Theatre, fall 2012). In 2015 she acted on the stage along with her mother Jane Asher in "The Gathered Leaves" (Park Theatre).

Radio, television and film credits include her role of Brenda in "The Wistleblower" film, the part of Kerry Harrison in "The Real Kathy Haydn" (Channel 4, 2007), "The Long Walk Home" film (2007), "Nunc Demittis", part of the "Someone Like You" collection, for BBC Radio 4 (2009), her role of Emily Coulson in "Holby City" (BBC, 2010), Sophie in the 2010 film "The Engagement Party", the poet female in "The Cult" film (2010), the short "The Adbucted", as Dr. Murphy in ITV's "Emmerdale Farm" (Yorkshire television, 2012), "A Little Twist of Dahl" (BBC Radio 4) and the short "The Listener" (2014) and the part of Liz Wilde again in in "Holby City" (2015).

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Pictured, Katie and her father Gerald Scarfe at the South Bank Show, at the Savoy Hotel, on the 22nd January 1998 in London.

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#Katie Scarfe #Gerald Scarfe #1998 Katie #actress #voice actress #1990s Katie #google photos #join #share #sharing is caring

[themackenzieboydchronicles]

Good Morning Friday - Michelle, Amy and Gemma.

#good morning friday #michelle hardwick #amy walsh #gemma atkinson #emmerdale ladies

[harrietxfinch]

[first and last appearance]

#emmerdale #emmerdale ladies #ed ladies #harriet finch #katherine dow blyton #character #tv #drama #british #soap #she deserved better #gif #gif set #mine

[soapgirl2584]

Charity/Suzy

Everyone keeps asking why would Vanessa take Suzy back after everything she's done, when all Charity did was kiss Mack once! because of her own insecurities.

Well my thought on this.

Charity:

Vanessa knows deep down Charity is the love of her life and if she let her back in she has the power to completely destroy her I think Charity kissing Mack really hurt her more than she lets on it was a complete betrayal so to let her in again is gonna take time but if both ladies stay in Emmerdale and are not killed by the storm and Michelle decides to come back after maternity I believe we will see them back together eventually 100% I always see Charity/Vanessa as the female version of Cain/moira and they've been back and forth so many times.

Suzy

It's nice to see Vanessa happy again at least before all the drug scandal and if am honest i don't mind the character Suzy and Vanessa needs to find out who she is without Charity and vice versa. Suzy has a lot of making up to do with V and the rest of the village but for now she makes Vanessa happy and in the future when they split up or Suzy dies in the storm Vanessa will be sad but it won't destroy her because Suzy isn't her one true love not to say she doesn't love her I believe she does but Charity will always be her first true love and not even all V's little digs can change that.❤💖💚💛💙💜🤍🖤

#emmerdale vanity #charity dingle #vanessa woodfield

[sapphic-bombshell-vixen]

10 CHARACTERS / 10 FANDOMS / 10 TAGS

Am I picking all three separately or…?

Rosita Espinosa - The Walking Dead

Villanelle - Killing Eve

Helena G. Wells - Warehouse 13

Cersei Lannister - Game Of Thrones

Greta Gill - A League Of Their Own

Bellatrix Black-Lestrange - Harry Potter

Poison Ivy - DC Comics

Yasmin Khan - Doctor Who

Charity Dingle - Emmerdale

Lady Sam - Gap The Series

#pick and choose

[scrapyardboyfriends]

Did i read well? A cheating's storyline just ends and we have an other one? And this time with the most awful character of the soap, wendy posner. They are really doing everything to make her relevant. It's insane. Her character should had leave Emmerdale since years. They didn't even show how Victoria and her reconcile after Vic told her she wanted anything to do with her years ago.

And now, Wendy is treated as this lovely lady who did nothing wrong in her life. I saw some fans love her. I tried to give her character a chance because she was in an abusive relationship but she was the one who protected her Lee from justice. She was the one who harassed a girl in her own town and decided to move in Emmerdale as if she had any right in this baby. Some said she made amend of her mistakes but she never did. All she does is crying and lies.

And now, we will have that....😭

I mean we already have a current cheating storyline. Nicky is cheating on Gabby with Ally. So this is just a couple more since we also have Bob and Bernice almost kissing.

I don't, the spoilers for next week are pretty horrifying. I've also seen something about Bear thinking he has a chance with Mandy?!?!? I mean what the fuck is that?! Honestly. These people are just picking the literal worst combinations at this point.

But yeah I've seen this Wendy/Liam affair being promoted as a racy affair, a steamy fling and an illicit affair. I can almost guarantee it will be absolutely nothing of the sort. No one on this show knows what a steamy affair is. I mean look at what we've had in the not so distant past. Bob and Laurel? Nate and Moira? Pete and Priya? I wouldn't really consider Chas and Al a steamy affair especially considering the circumstances but at least I wanted her to cheat.

But in general, yes, Wendy is not a character that should EVER have been long term. She should have never been seen again after the sentencing. Luke should never have existed. But if she had to stay at all, she definitely should have followed Luke out the door. Because now she's just...there. And we get further and further away from the Lee story and how awful she was and how she had no business moving to the village to pressure Vic into having a relationship with Harry. And they want us to forget and a lot of people will but I will not.

But also, even still, she's not a very interesting character. I feel like she has all of Emma Barton's annoying "popping up everywhere to declare she's a medical professional (which she's technically not)" and none of her fun unhinged parts.

Truly a useless character. And it doesn't feel like we'll ever be rid of her. And ruining poor Liam with the likes of her is even worse. It better not last.

#emmerdale complaints corner