James Sutton on new Emmerdale role

James Sutton on new Emmerdale role
James Sutton on new Emmerdale role (Image credit: UK Press/PA Photos)

James Sutton has described his new Emmerdale character as 'quite blokey'. The actor, best known for playing gay John Paul McQueen in Hollyoaks, is gearing up for his debut as unemployed mechanic Ryan Lamb, Faye Lamb's son, in Emmerdale. James said: "He's a bit of a lad's lad, he's quite blokey, he likes a pint and he's a mechanic, an out of work mechanic - he's lost his job so he moves up to sponge off his mum for a bit." He went on: "He doesn't have a dad - or doesn't think he has a dad. So that's all kind of being explored." Given his mother Faye's history with Mark, could the married millionaire turn out to be Ryan's missing dad? "Well, that seems to be the way the storyline is going," revealed James. "I know there's been a lot of speculation so you'll just have to wait and see, really." James debuts in Emmerdale on Monday June 15 at 7pm on ITV1. Click here to watch whatsontv.co.uk’s new weekly soaps video preview, the Soap Scoop

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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.