Emmerdale fans have had enough of one of the central characters in the soap after watching Friday’s episode.
Friday’s instalment of the popular ITV soap saw the villagers rallying around trying to work out where missing Paddy Kirk (Dominic Brunt) might have gone. His disappearance comes after weeks of struggling with his mental health since his split with Chas Dingle (Lucy Pargeter) who had been cheating on him. The latest Emmerdale episode saw a worried Chas desperate to find Paddy, but fans were left fuming that the character should be ‘written off’.
As the police were called to Paddy’s home to investigate his disappearance, Chas was on hand to provide details, but it didn’t take long for a row to break out.
“I had a date with a lady friend, but he told me he’d be fine on his own,” Paddy’s dad, Bear Wolf (Joshua Richards) explained.
“Well, shame he wasn’t fine,” Chas scowled, adding to Mandy Dingle (Lisa Riley): “Madam here hurled herself upon him.”
“No, I didn’t,” Mandy hit back before Chas told the officer: “Yeah, she slept with my husband, in my home, in what used to be my bed – then he goes missing!”
“It’s not as bad as it sounds,” Marlon Dingle (Mark Charnock) pointed out. “They were separated, they have been for months.”
“Yeah, since Paddy found out she was sleeping with Al Chapman, (Michael Wildman)” Mandy chimed.
“No wonder the lad’s done a runner, I’d have legged it myself if I thought I had to come back to all this,” Bear commented.
Later, a furious Bear lashed out at Chas, blaming her for Paddy’s poor mental state.
“We all know why Paddy’s gone,” Bear later told her.
“I didn’t force him into bed with Mandy,” she replied, to which Bear remarked: “He wouldn’t have looked at her twice if you hadn’t broken his heart.”
He continued: “You never wanted him even when you had him, and when he finds a little bit of comfort, a woman who actually gives a stuff about him, you shame her when it’s you that should be ashamed.”
He added: “You took his heart and you smashed it, you made that poor lad’s life a misery.”
However, viewers didn’t feel too sorry for Chas because they thought she had only recently realized how her affair had affected her marriage.
Many of them started pleading with soap opera writers to remove the character on social media.
@EloquentParrot, a user on Twitter, wrote: “Does Chas care if someone is weak and damaged? BAHAHAHAHA The #Emmerdale is the HEEEELLLLLL.”
Mrs. @Undecided begged: “Hurry and send Chas a message, #Emmerdale! Up until he was killed, Al was the best thing that had ever happened to her. Bear did well to inform her of this.”
@TwellyWatcher added: “I love how Bear put Chas in her place. It just goes to show how having an affair can really affect the person you cheated on. Of course it’s bound to take a huge mental toll. Poor Pad #Emmerdale.”
“It’s also got nothing to do with Chas anymore what paddy does,” @GBThaTTer72 argued, adding: “Giving it big I am to Mandy saying ‘he’s still my husband!” she does my head in.
“She was all set 2 f* off with Al.. she’s the reason PADDY has f*ed off! #emmerdale.” (sic)
@TwellyWatcher penned: “#Emmerdale I’m disappointed to see that it took this to happen for Chas to realise how much she hurt Paddy rather than treating it as a ‘oh well what’s happened has happened’ attitude. She should have taken responsibility sooner but no. She’s the reason for Paddy going. Only her.”
@karmatarabuddha posted: “Yayyyy Bear, someone needed to tell the horror Chas #emmerdale.”
@funkygibbons remarked: “More Chas feeling sorry for herself no redeeming qualities at all.
“They most know over at the Dales that there’s no way back for the character and the best thing to do is write her out.
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