Charlotte Bellamy: Laurel could have a fling!

Charlotte Bellamy: Laurel could have a fling!
Charlotte Bellamy: Laurel could have a fling! (Image credit: Doug Peters/EMPICS Entertainment)

Emmerdale star Charlotte Bellamy has suggested that her character Laurel Thomas could end up having a fling with Marlon Dingle. The actress told Inside Soap magazine that although vicar's wife Laurel has been married since 2005, she is getting "swept away" with feelings for her old friend. "Laurel hasn't fallen out of love with Ashley, but she's slowly falling in love with Marlon," Charlotte said. "She is on really shaky ground. She's falling in love with someone other than her husband, and must work out what she wants." Charlotte admitted that Laurel's feelings start to become clear after Marlon begins spending more time with Rachel Breckle (Gemma Oaten) - and she is not happy. "Laurel is overcome with jealousy at this point - she knows by then that she's really falling for Marlon," the actress said. "There's a nice little scene where they don't say anything, but actually say everything - and it's a moment which proves that Marlon has feelings for Laurel too. "It looks like both of them are starting to come to terms with what's going on here."

Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 


An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.