Why Emmerdale's Nicola gets snippy with Jimmy!

Why Emmerdale's Nicola gets snippy with Jimmy!
Why Emmerdale's Nicola gets snippy with Jimmy!

Emmerdale's Nicola Wheeler chats to Soaplife about the latest bumps on the Nicola-Jimmy road to happiness - with the biggest bump being the vasectomy Jimmy doesn't want! Why does Nicola want Jimmy to have a vasectomy? "She doesn't want any more children and also doesn't want to risk any accidents. Jimmy agrees about no more children, but he thinks Nicola should just take the pill." Does Nicola understand why Jimmy's worried? "Of course, but she believes there's no risk with a vasectomy. Whereas taking the pill is open to human error [her own], as well as possible health risks. So she won't have sex unless he has a vastectomy? "She wants to show Jimmy what he's missing out on. She's playing games to get her own way. And she involves Alex. She asks him to flirt with her to make Jimmy jealous! Is he? "As usual Jimmy overreacts! But Nicola only winds him up further. Her objective is to make him have a vasectomy and she'll use any means possible." But it backfires when Jimmy dumps her! Is he serious? "Nicola believes he is and is devastated that he would want to end things over something so trivial." But he's just playing her... "Yes. She sees him and Alex in The Woolpack and overhears Jimmy bragging about 'how to control Nicola'. He soon regrets those words ever left his mouth!" What does she do? "She pours his drink over him and gets her way when he agrees to have a vasectomy after all. For Nicola it's the perfect conclusion." Is that the end of the matter? "Possibly. But there's a past issue that's going to become present and is going to cause more trouble."

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.