Emmerdale’s Mark Charnock reveals huge regret as Marlon takes the blame over missing April
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Marlon Dingle (Mark Charnock) faces every parent’s worst nightmare over the Christmas period in Emmerdale as he realises daughter April Windsor (Amelia Flanagan) has disappeared. April’s life changed earlier this month when she discovered how her mum Donna died. This revelation only came courtesy of Donna’s old love interest Ross Barton (Michael Parr), who saved April after she was kidnapped by Jade and her gang.
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April was found being held over the same building Donna jumped from. After learning the secret from Ross, the young girl confronted Marlon, but initially failed to mention anything about her kidnapping. ‘For quite a while she’s been acting out of character’, actor Mark explained.
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To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video. Up Next. ‘What it really means is she’s growing up and she’s got all sorts of issues. She’s discovered how Donna really died, which is huge for her. She never knew that Donna, her mother, had taken her own life.
‘Ross told her that information, much to Marlon’s twitchy annoyance, because obviously they’ve got history as well with the whole Donna triangle and things like that. 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.
He added: ‘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.’.
