Emmerdale’s Marlon Dingle actor Mark Charnock has teased a devastating new

storyline is on the way for his character on the ITV soap, in scenes that are ‘unimaginable’

There’s devastating scenes on the way on Emmerdale, as one family faces “unimaginable horror”.

One actor confessed the scripts left him “very upset” and that the storyline was “moving” and “horrible”. While not going into detail asides spoilers teasing a shocking disappearance, the actor confirmed a devastating storyline was on the way.

There’s devastating scenes on the way on Emmerdale (Image: ITV)

Marlon Dingle actor Mark Charnock confirmed to The Mirror and other press that the storyline would escalate after it kicks off in the coming weeks. He promised harrowing scenes ahead, which kick off when his young daughter April, aged 15, goes missing.

It’s revealed Marlon gets a terrible shock on Christmas Day, and Mark revealed that in an upcoming episode he goes up to April’s room to find his daughter “just gone”. Teasing “there’s nothing right” about what he sees, it begins an emotional and “horrible” storyline for the family.

He told us: “I was very upset reading the scripts. Obviously it’s hopefully going to be a moving story but the scripts were so strong, you could see the writer’s personal investment in a lot of this stuff. I was speaking to the producers and everybody’s like… it’s huge, isn’t it? It’s a huge thing. It’s the most unimaginable thing. Horrible, horrible.”

Emmerdale’s Marlon Dingle actor Mark Charnock has teased a devastating new storyline is on the way ( Image: ITV)

Giving some context abut what leads to the big moment where Marlon can’t find his daughter, Mark said: “So he’s checking her texts because she’s behaved outrageously to family members, she’s been really uncharacteristically rude and a little mean-spirited and just not her.

“So he’s going through these texts and he begins to discover information that he had no idea about. She’s trying to get weed and stuff like that, which has shocked him a bit. Part of the problem is he’s this very protective parent. I don’t think he’s over-protective but he’s missed the bit where she’s not in cotton wool any more, he’s missed the jump that she’s made and that, coupled with the fact she’s found out about Donna, has just made it a bit more volcanic.”

He went on: “This disastrous Christmas Eve where she’s got absolutely annihilated, she has this terrible Christmas where she causes all sorts of issues and problems and they’re just not meeting on a level playing field. The next morning he opens a present, April’s still in bed, and she’s got him this mug that he dropped not long after he had the stroke.

April was recently kidnapped ( Image: ITV)

“The handle had come off and she stuck the handle back on. They turn it around and there’s a thing on the bottom of the mug that says ‘Things that are broken can always be mended.’

“He goes up – and she’s gone. There’s that moment that I can only imagine, that blank space where she’s supposed to be on that day of all days. It’s not a building horror it’s just like [claps] Full 10. There’s nothing right about that picture, her empty room on that day, no matter what they’ve been through there’s no way that room could or should be empty. And she’s gone.”

On the instant ‘unimaginable horror’, he added: “He wonders whether she’s been kidnapped again. Obviously your brain goes everywhere. But that’s as much as I can say right now. He goes to Bob first and goes to see other family members. Ross. There’s an instant little circle of panic that doesn’t help. It escalates, this storyline, so this is just the beginning.”