Emmerdale will be rocked by the arrival of a new baby later this year.
Show bosses have teased there could soon be another character in the Dales, aligning with their special month of celebrations in October to mark the ITV soap’s 50th anniversary.
However, they have refused to divulge quite yet who the baby may belong to.
Speaking to The Mirror and other press, executive producer Jane Hudson teased: “There will be a new baby arriving in Emmerdale before the end of the year. I think that’s not giving anything away as there are so many female characters in the show, but there will be a new arrival before the year is out. There’s probably going to be a birth in the anniversary month perhaps!
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“Babies in soaps are either born on programme celebrations or Christmas so there’s going to be one of those happening.”
They have also hinted that some big characters could make a huge return to celebrate the big milestone.
“We’ve been thinking about the 50th all the time,” the show’s producers teased, “I think we probably held back some of our big ideas while Covid was so prominent in our lives because we didn’t know what we could achieve.
“But Super Soap Week has really shown us what we can do.”
They added: “And as brilliant as stunts are – we’ve got to have the stories to back up those stunts. We can blow up anything but if there’s no story behind it – what’s the point? Our focus at the moment is to really build those stories so when we get to our Golden Month of Celebration, we’ve got secrets that the viewers are desperate to be revealed.”
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There will also be some huge emotional storylines for the soap’s biggest characters.
“But at the heart of it, the best loved characters in our show are really going to be tested in some big emotional stories. It’s really key to us that whatever happens in the 50th – the fallout is huge. This will continue and take us into 2023,” they added.
Emmerdale bosses tease new baby will arrive to celebrate ITV soap’s 50th anniversary
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