Emmerdale fans have threatened to boycott the ITV soap if a fan favourite character is killed off.
Emmerdale spoilers released this week revealed that Marlon Dingle is set to suffer a life-changing stroke after deciding to propose to Rhona Goskirk.
Marlon collapses next week while searching for the engagement ring he’s bought, and is rushed to hospital for surgery that will hopefully save his life – but nothing is guaranteed, and Rhona and his daughter April are left devastated.
And now fans are worried that Marlon won’t make it through the op – and say they will stop watching the programme entirely if that happens.
Taking to Twitter, one fan wrote: “Oh no! What’s wrong with Marlon? You can’t kill him off too. We need Marlon. Please don’t take him away.”
As another said: “If they kill Marlon then I’ve done with watching Emmerdale!”
“Do me at least a favour and don’t kill him off please, he’s one of my favourites in the show,” someone else begged.
But another viewer said of the upcoming plot-line: “Looking forward to the Emmerdale stroke storyline, I’m 49 and had a stroke on 24 January.
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“Interested to see Marlon’s take on it and how the story unfolds.”
And a fourth said: “Really happy that they are doing this [storyline]. And super happy that this is going to be an uplifting SL where the family bandies together to help Marlon!
“No one does these kind of [storylines] better than #Emmerdale Of course Mark will smash it, no doubt.”
It comes as actor Mark Charnock told Daily Star about the true extent of his stroke storyline, explaining: “Suddenly, out of nowhere, his world changes utterly.
“Everything seems to slow down for him. He is aware something is very wrong. Then he catches sight of himself in the mirror and his face has drooped on his right side. He collapses and is frozen. He can’t really move.”
He added that Marlon finds himself in a wheelchair, unable to speak in full sentences after suffering aphasia and forced to communicate using his eyes – something that proves difficult as a “physically expressive” character.
“His arms, legs, mouth – they’re all quite badly affected,” he said.
Mark added of the ongoing storyline: “He’s not going to get to where he wants to be for a long time. We’re just at the beginning of his journey.
“He can’t work anymore. He feels, wrongly, that he can’t be the dad that he wants to be anymore, which is everything to him, but because of Rhona and Paddy and other characters who come into the story, there are some lovely scenes in the hospital quite early on that, hopefully, will show that it is not all gloom and depression.
“There is lightness to it too.”
Emmerdale airs weeknights from 7:30pm on ITV.
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