Emmerdale - Why aren't divorced characters given back thier maiden names?
Melephunk2010
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This is something that has been bugging me for absolutley ages.
Two examples are Charity and Katie....
Katie was divorced from Andy a long time ago and has since left and returned to the village... why is she still known as Katie SUGDEN and not her original character name of Katie Addyman?
Charity was married to Chris and again left and returned to the village still using Tate.... Why wasn't it changed back to Dingle?
Did the writers have a memory relapse or was it done for a reason and I missed it?
Two examples are Charity and Katie....
Katie was divorced from Andy a long time ago and has since left and returned to the village... why is she still known as Katie SUGDEN and not her original character name of Katie Addyman?
Charity was married to Chris and again left and returned to the village still using Tate.... Why wasn't it changed back to Dingle?
Did the writers have a memory relapse or was it done for a reason and I missed it?
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I just don't get it with Katie though. At one point, Katie was positvely creeped out by Andy's stalker like tendancies, and thought that he might have actually set her home on fire, and yet she goes round with his surname still. I assume its because the show is so desperate to keep the Sugden name alive in whatever contrived way they can.
Don't see what the big deal is myself. A name is just something you're known by at the end of the day and like my Grandma used to say: 'whatever you're called it's just another man's name!' (said to my cousin when she said she wasn't changing her name when she got married.)
She moved into the village with her father, Brian Addyman.
Soap characters change their names back too much really, I don't reckon it's all that common. Anyone can revert back to their old name on Facebook but officially I reckon the statistics are pretty low.
Then there's cases like Charity who doesn't want to be a Dingle, or my mum who has kept my dad's name because her own family name is Brush. You can imagine the jokes she grew up with.
A case that does baffle me however is why Anna Windass chose to change her name by deed poll to Windass rather than marrying Eddie, and then when she split from him rather than change hers back, she chose to change Faye's to Windass as well. Now that's genuinely strange.
and why would you intentionally choose the name windass?
Wojciechowski?
if it were polish it would be excusable but its an old Yorkshire name allegedly
Yeah I know, Barnoldswick! :cool:
My married name's like that. It's old English (or came over with the Normans or summat) and we're forever having to spell it and if someone actually pronounces it right first time we cheer them
Mind you, people were always misspelling my maiden name too even though it's not all that weird.
Got to agree with cazza - sometimes I do wonder why women change their name at all when people automatically expect them to change it back if they divorce? When you marry if you choose to take your husband's family name it becomes YOURS so I never understand all this 'his name' attitude
Now it's probably more conservative than tge other two.
Thanks Lottie. I didn't change my name for 3 reasons
1. I am xxxx alway have been and always will be and I like my regal Irish name, infact when my uncle married, his wife had to abreviate her for name as the rest of the rather large Irish family told her firmly xxxx already existed
2. I am qualified, chartered and known professionally in my name, therefore I will not change.
3. Who would want to be known as Mrs Terry in this day and age:eek:
That's assuming you are daft enough to change it in the first place
It confused the baliffs;)
I am assuming that she is now Charity Sharma anyway? - and, if so, this reflects the latest progression in her character, ie. her having married for love rather than money and status (though the family she's married into just happen to be well-off!).
As for Katie, her keeping the name Sugden is obviously the writers trying to keep the family name alive (though if they really wanted to do this they should also have given her a child named Sugden by now) but still I don't find it massively unusual. When Katie split up with Andy it was to be with his brother Robert Sugden, who she planned to marry. From a purely technical point of view, there wasn't much point in reverting to her maiden name only to change it back to Sugden when she remarried. By the time her engagement to Rob fell through, I think she was already running the stables business where she is known as Mrs Sugden and presumably has a good professional reputation under that name - changing it would be confusing for her clients and a lot of hassle.
I can remember Kim Tate making a big deal of going back to her maiden name (Barker I think) when she divorced Frank - only to become Kim Tate again when they remarried. And she obviously attached the same importance to the name as Charity did, as the last time we saw her, she was asking to be known as Kim Tate rather than her married name of Marchant.
From real life experience, a lot of women go back to their maiden name after a marriage that has ended sourly - in which case, they can't bear to be associated with the name of their ex. The women who keep their married name usually do so for the reasons cited on here - to keep the same name as their children, or because they are known professionally and have a good professional reputation under that name.