Charlotte Bellamy is glad that she hasn’t been killed off in Emmerdale.
The 52-year-old actress has performed the function of Laurel Thomas within the ITV cleaning soap for the previous 23 years and joked that “the most effective Christmas current” for her is surviving one other 12 months of drama on the Dales.
Charlotte informed Inside Cleaning soap journal: “The very best current is that they have not killed me off yearly!
“There you go, my finest Christmas reminiscence is that I’ve not been got rid of… but!”
Charlotte is on the centre of this 12 months’s festive drama on Emmerdale as Laurel’s romance with villainous Ray Walters (Joe Absolom) intensifies and she or he says her character is none the wiser concerning the drug seller and his adoptive mom Celia Daniels’ (Jaye Griffiths) darkish deeds.
She mentioned: “Laurel’s in heaven!
“She’s simply met the person of her desires and he is completely into her. Laurel turns into like a magnet, and Ray is drawn to her within the sense of, ‘That is what my life could possibly be.’
“At Christmas, all of the issues that we possibly take without any consideration – the Christmas tree, the video games, cooking dinner around the desk – all of a sudden Ray is pondering, ‘That is fantastic and I really feel so good’, and Laurel is magnetic to him.
“However, in fact, he is nonetheless below the thumb of Celia who is clearly extraordinarily nervous, for the primary time in her life, that Ray’s not listening to her anymore. He is listening to Laurel.”
Charlotte defined will probably be “devastating” for her alter ego to study the reality as a result of Laurel is “mesmerised” by Ray.
She mentioned: “Ray’s telephone is all the time happening and off and she or he’s like, ‘Dangle on…’, nevertheless it’s solely fleeting as a result of she’s so mesmerised by him.
“Once you meet somebody, why would you query something? You simply imagine what you are informed. When it will definitely all comes out, it’s going to be devastating.
“Laurel must settle for that she has fallen for an absolute monster.”
Bellamy even considers Celia to be one of the crucial ruthless villains in Emmerdale’s historical past.
She mentioned: “Celia is in a totally completely different league, she’s most likely the worst, most harmful villain we have ever had.
“The degrees that she and Ray go to, you will not imagine what occurs. Oh my gosh, it is so horrendous.”
