A friend of Holly's who was on screen in 2010-11/12 and lived with the Bartons briefly.

Was that the one played by Leela on Hollyoaks?

Yes she was. On the HO thread we have just discussed how little she has been there recently. It would be cool if she is given brief leave of absence from HO to come and befriend Holly in ED.

Oh ok, I didn't realize her part was that big, I thought is smaller like when Katie of Corrie was one of Scarlet's friends.

But he wasn't.
The thugs said they were there to warn Andy off of Mr White's wife.

But Roz moved to Hollyoaks its not like the actress can come back.

The only time that's happened in soap is a Actor in Holby City returning to his character in eastenders recently.

Here it is my post number 32,000

Analysis of Emmerdale Characters

1) Crybaby Aarsewipe - his reaction to Roberts jealous ramblings was hysterically funny, and utterly hypocritical , Robert has had to put up with your whingeing and whining about just about time you open you job.

So shut up Crybaby and go and cry in the corner

pity he can't be deleted from the show like Andy was from Chrissie's phone

2) Robert - loved his jealousy

3) Chrissie bit impatient isn't she, Andy misses one date and she's deleting him, Later showed she cares about him though but lets not have weeks of her blaming Robert for the only thing he's never done can we? wonder what her reaction to Lawrence guilt will be

4) Andy was this weeks occupant of the Petented Emmerdale hospital bed.

Seriously Hotton NHS would be better opening a hospital in the village

And rejected Lawrence payoff

5) Lawrence - so he's not the Godfather of the village and got his thugs from his own warehouse, was shocked at the damage he's caused and more shocked it was his daughter with Andy and not his wife.

6) Ashley - did Ashley really thing talk of Adoption would go down well with gabby, had a good and bad taste in music and stay away from making a band with Bob

7) Laurel - Shut up Laurel you have done far far worse things than Gabby you stupid bint.

8) Gabby - didn't like her fathers adoption plan, seemed delighted to see actual records and felt very guilty about lying to her forgetful father.

9) Jayyccub - everybody hates a snitch and tell tale Jacob

10) Lachlan - wasn't he trying to avoid going to the gig with Gabby the other day, why is he so keen now other than bad continuity of course

11) Kerry - stop stirring Kerry after your April Fools joke misfire you would think she would learnt her lesson

12) Shut up Zak

Weekly bulletin of the Malt(shovel)

In yet another shocking crime to haunt the village Andy Sugden was beaten up and left for dead along the Robblefield road area. He is in Hotton district hospital recovering. PC Swirling told the malt, we are looking for two thuggish men seen leaving the area.

Father Brown's wife Golden has won the prize for making Yorkshires best Strawberry Jam, she has her own Jam making business which has been growing rapidly in the last 3 years

3 Hay bales fell off Farmer Giles's tractor waggon this week and blocked the Connelton road for 6 hours this week, the health and Safety executive has been informed.

Marion Ormintrude celebrated her 106th birthday this week, she was a Malt regular for many years and we hope she has many more.

Analysis of Emmerdale Stoylines

1)Lawence being found out and having a convenient heartache

am I suggesting he was faking, maybe not but some would
Chriisse was shocked, shocked I say and then shouted at her dad alot.

2) Lawrence probably not being Chrissie's father - rather convenient he had that heart attack just as he looked at pictures and note proving he wasn't Chriisie's father and leaving it out for her to see.

Kwnyyne being very cynical today

3) Today's occupant of the Memorial Jack Sugden Emmerdale Bed at Hotton General was lawrence after it was vacated by Andy of Course

4) Bernice's doubts about her marriage will vanish when Lawrence waves more wads of cashg under her nose

5) The Possibly and definitely dying Fathers club - founding members Jaycuuubb and Gabby on the agenda , drinking, snogging and talking about their fathers, then stumbling off home to rage at the world if you are gabby and get all maudling if you are Jaycuub

6) The Crassly Comedy cancer Storyline - David and Leyla served as Comedy for the episode.

7) Victoria and her Hair give Robert a glass of beer in a very strange place because Robert is ranting and raving about not getting what's due to him (whatever that is), how he hates Lawrence and hates the relationship of his ex wife and his brother

8) Robert looks at his teeth while - Lawrence is stricken. First he had a big row with low over the subject included in Part 7) then he does nothing to help Lawrence and looks at his teeth, maybe one of his filling have fallen out.

9) Belle is allergic to Smelly stuff and given how much she uses she must pong something awful

10) Belle finds out about Dr Baileys secret and uses it to cover her embarrassment over being so smelly

11)The Siren of the Dales and most beautiful woman in the dales, well in Joanie's head anyway, thinks she can attract any man when all she can attract is Zak.

Mini synopsis of the ep

Joanie has a lot to answer for.
Firstly she thinks she is a beautiful Goddess/siren who could have any man she wants while actually she is one of the ugly witches from Macbeth
She made Zak Jealous so punched Rishi
Then Zak went to Lisa's for some reason to tell her something other than they were getting married but told her that anyway.
Then Lisa wailed and moaned about men so much that she put Belle so off men and Love so muchthat she went and shagged Dr Bailey in his office
Curse you Joanie you hag and again for making Zak propose in the Woolpack in front of Lisa which is downright cruel.
Megan went to the Weight room and arranged for her foal to be registered soory Christened and that Sam was the baby's Trainer, sorry godfather.
She hadn't bothered to tell Jai who wanted Priya as head stable girl sorry Godmother.
Jai got banned from the woolpack for about an hour for stopping the fight betweenRishi and Zak.
Gabby told Eric about David's cancer no doubt thinking prize prat David already had.
And there was stupid stuff about Laurel and Gabby and moaning about all the drinking.
Chrissie is looking for her supposed father.
Other stuff happened but its all go in Emmedale

Poor Lisa.
The humiliation of having Zak visit - thus raising her hopes he had come home, only to tell her he was going to marry Joanie - and then actually witnessing his very public proposal.
I hated seeing her cry.

You'd have thought Zak might have finished off his stew before he told Lisa about his upcoming nuptials or even started it I do feel for Lisa but am a tad confused as didn't Zak already try to come back to her but she wasn't having any of it so like he said to Joanie even if he wanted to she wouldn't be now be willing.

Personally I think it's heading towards a big reunion between them and the stew was a precursor to this in that it emphasised Lisa's homeliness whilst Joanie is now being portrayed as the village siren which needs quite some suspension of belief tbh

I agree it's unlikely, but then a deal can be negotiated whereby she takes leave from HO for a guest appearance in ED. So, unlikely but not impossible.

In a simpler parellel, James Sutton has had an extended break from HO to play Ryan in ED. The actor who played Jamie I think had a similar career move.

Yes - Joanie being life and soul of everyone's party has come out of the blue hasn't it?
Maybe the new Producer has instructed the way to reconciliation for Zak and Lisa must be prepared immediately.

Some couples should be kept together.
Zak and Lisa are one.
Nicola and Jimmy are another.

And Laurel and Ashley should never have split.

I wish the new Producer would magic up a new diagnosis for Ashley and not kill him off.

Yeah, that would be great because it was not the actor's decision to leave, right? I think I read on here that they chose not to renew his contract which really surprised me.

Bib: Really? I thought he wanted to leave. I wonder why they chose not to renew it?

Maybe I'm wrong, but I thought I read it on here that it was not his decision. Apologies if I got this wrong.

If Ashley was put on a drug trial for some new treatment, it might be a way of prolonging the character's life.

Yes, please. I really want him to stay in the show.

Ashley has been a great character in ED for many years now. It's a shame he's on his way out

But there aren't any new treatments currently available and Emmerdale would get crucified by the Dementia charities for providing fault hope and Emmerdale doesn't want to be the Daily express of the soap wolrd do they?

There are a number of treatments being trialled. If they could be bothered to do it accurately about what is involved, it could be enlightening and offer an insight into how come according to Desmond's rag 'A CURE' for arthritis/cancer/dementia/ailment du jour has been 'FOUND' but won't be available for at least five years.
However in soap world, I'm sure someone would decide it would all go horrifically wrong for the subject and do untold damage.

Analysis Central's Do's and Don't's about last night episode.

1) Don't have sex in the surgery .

2) Especially don't do on top of important test results and mix them all up

3) Do knock on Doors.

4) Do wait until the Doctor tells you can come in, don't just barge in its rude.


The standard waiting time is always 20 minutes after the appointment time whether or not the Doctor's is full of not.

5) Do sue Doctor bailey and get him struck off

6) Do not under any circumstances celebrate loudly when having a clear health because if you don't instantly die of a heart attack there will have been a terrible misdiagnosis and you won't be celebrating loudly much longer

7) Don't let Sam Dingle give a speech at a christening.

8) Do involve the father at the Christening even if the father is Jai

9) Don't shout at you biggest supporters if you about to go to trial.

10 Don't be utterly miserable in general.
Then again i've been telling Shitbaby that for 1000 episodes in a row.

11) Do try to cheer the eff up the trial might not be the utter disaster you are expecting and appear to be hiop for.

12) Do off to go to concerts with your Girlfriends son even if you can barely walk and are in pai.

13) Don't get insanely jealous over you brother and ex wife

14) Don't ever wear what Rishi was wearing this episode

15)Don't bother taliking to Lisa bu then i've said that for 1000 episodes as well.

Analysis will be very patchy this week a trials are not my thing