Christmas in Emmerdale this year is going to be tense and dramatic, with Celia Daniels (Jaye Griffiths) and Ray Walters (Joe Absolom)’ reign of terror still ongoing and Aaron (Danny Miller) and Robert (Ryan Hawley) in deadly danger. So it’s good to know that there’s something celebratory to look forward to.
In Friday (December 12)’s episode, Jacob Gallagher (Joe-Warren Plant) confirmed to his fiancee Sarah Sugden (Katie Hill) that he’d booked their registry office wedding – and it’s going to be on Christmas Eve.
The couple were planning a much bigger wedding, but the events of the Christmas Fayre made them think again.
Sarah’s gran, Charity Dingle (Emma Atkins), and Kerry Wyatt (Laura Norton), who has become part of Jacob’s family since she now lives with his granddad Eric Pollard (Chris Chittell), were at loggerheads throughout the event.
Both fiercely competitive, they went head to head in an effort to win the grand prize of an e-bike, which turned out to be a model bike anyway.
As they bickered and cheated their way through the various games, annoying Kyle (Huey Quinn) and Moses (Arthur Cockroft) who they were officially meant to be ‘helping,’ Sarah and Jacob realised they’d be an absolute nightmare at the wedding.
Jacob tried to reason with Kerry, saying that he needed her to get on with Charity for the sake of him and Sarah, but it wasn’t long before she was sparring with Charity again.
So Jacob suggested to Sarah that they could just quietly get married by themselves and tell everyone afterwards, and Sarah agreed and suggested Christmas Eve.
In this episode, Jacob got confirmation of his booking so the plan is going ahead. Sarah was pleased, but she had some reservations. She’s a Dingle, and a wedding isn’t a wedding without a party and the new family member (Jacob) drinking from the ceremonial welly, and she didn’t want to miss out on that.
So Jacob came up with a plan. They’re due to go to Charity’s 20 week scan and hope that they’ll find out the gender of the baby she’s expecting, which they believe is theirs that Charity is carrying as a surrogate.
Viewers know that Charity slept with Ross Barton (Mike Parr) and the baby is actually hers and Ross’s.
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Jacob’s idea is for the wedding to be disguised as a gender reveal party. They’ll assemble all their loved ones for the party, and then bus them off to the wedding. That way there’ll be no time for either Kerry or Charity to get involved in any of the planning.
It’s a nice idea, and there’s nothing better than a festive soap wedding – but with Charity keeping such a massive secret about the baby, could something happen to derail the wedding plans?
