Some things viewers just aren’t meant to see (Picture: ITV)
We’re used to seeing soap characters getting up close and personal, but Emmerdale stars Emma Atkins and Lawrence Robb have reminded us that not everything is suitable for pre-watershed eyes.
Before Charity Dingle and Mackenzie Boyd’s wedding,Charity surprised her husband-to-be with an unusual gift – a replica of the iconic A Team van to use for the day.
Mackenzie, being a massive A Team fan, was thrilled and it wasn’t long before the couple, bizarrely dressed as characters from the show complete with wigs, headed off into the countryside.
Charity, feeling a bit frisky, suggested they park up and get into the back of the van for some pre-wedding fun.
Of course all TV shows have to be careful about what they show before the 9pm watershed and soaps have to be aware of the family audience who will be watching, and it has now been revealed that the scenes they originally filmed were deemed to have overstepped the mark and been a bit too raunchy.
On the ITV show Loose Women, Emma described the scene as it was filmed.
‘The guy who owned the van, he was shaking it,’ she revealed. ‘We all got told to just shake the van so then we went for it.’
The idea was to create a don’t come knocking when the A Team van is rocking image, with viewers well able to work out what might be going on inside, but the finished result looked a bit too realistic, apparently.
‘The director came over and went, “Compliance have said no,”’ Emma continued. ‘So they had to do a huge wide shot from the field on the other side of the village and you could just gently see it rocking.’
Emma described the episode – in which Charity and Mackenzie were arrested after PC Swirling (Andy Moore) turned up and informed them that the van had been involved in a robbery and elsewhere Chloe (Jessie Elland) gave birth to Mackenzie’s baby – as ‘very crazy’ and the two actors clearly had a lot of fun filming it.
Charity and Mack are happily married – but don’t expect the honeymoon period to last for long. Or be on screen. (Picture: ITV)
While one of the Loose Women presenters, Denise Welch, suggested Charity looked like her in her blonde A Team wig, which she ended up getting married in, Emma said she’d been compared to Ellen Degeneres and Philip Schofield.
And, in a shock announcement, Lawrence Robb revealed that, far from being the mad A Team fan that his character is, his previous knowledge of the show had only gone as far as remembering seeing ‘Mr T in a chocolate bar advert.’
Asked whether they were anything like their Emmerdale characters in real life, Emma said she was nothing like the wild Charity although she was often amused when people came up to her and told her she was a ‘wrong ‘un.’
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Meanwhile Lawrence was quite harsh about the character he plays.
‘I do not like my character at all,’ he insisted. ‘If Mackenzie did exist in real life I’d never be friends with him.’
In Friday (April 21)’s episode of the show viewers saw Mackenzie meeting his son Reuben for the first time, and his hugely emotional reaction afterwards – emotions that he had to bottle up as he set off on his honeymoon in Paris with his new wife.
The show’s executive producer, Jane Hudson, has told us that the truth about Mackenzie’s deception is going to come out very soon in dramatic style, as Charity discovers that her new husband is the father of Chloe’s baby.
‘The big choice for Mack is going to be does he want to be a dad and does he want to be a husband, and can he be both or can he not be both?’ she said.
‘How is Charity going to respond? We know she is fiery. And can Chloe remain in the village when this secret comes out? Because it’s not going to be nice when you’ve got the wrath of the Dingles…’
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Some things we just aren’t meant to see.