Lucy Pargeter: I love being surprised by plotlines

Lucy Pargeter: I love being surprised by plotlines
Lucy Pargeter: I love being surprised by plotlines (Image credit: PA Archive/Press Association Ima)

Emmerdale star Lucy Pargeter has revealed that she does not like to find out what producers have in store for her character Chas Dingle - as she likes to be surprised. Speaking to Inside Soap the actress - whose alter ego is set for a screen fling with her niece's boyfriend Cameron - said that while some cast members beg show bosses for story tip-offs, she is not one of them. "Some actors chat to producer Stuart Blackburn about their storylines. But I'd just rather read what's coming up in the scripts. "I've no idea what's in store. But the 40th anniversary is soon and there have been rumours that the Dingles will feature." Lucy added that she does know the upcoming storyline will include the departure of co-star Danny Miller, who plays her screen son Aaron. "I've just read the scripts for Danny's final scenes, and I have to admit I was welling up," she said. "I'll be gutted to see him go. "Four years ago he turned up while on a break from his holidays for an audition, and he was a shabby little skinhead. We saw a spark in Danny which has grown and grown - and so has he. "I'm proud to be letting him out into the big wide world as the man he's become."

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.