Emmerdale crew member's emotional goodbye following move to major rival soap
ok.co.ukAn Emmerdale crew member has bid an emotional farewell to the Yorkshire Dales as they make the move to rival soap EastEnders.
Writer Jack Deslandes, who has seen his name in the closing credits of Emmerdale 144 times, has shared his feelings about leaving the ITV soap. "I've been at EastEnders for more than four months now so it's been slightly strange to see the Emmerdale episodes I was working on air from afar," Jack confessed in a heartfelt blog post.
Reflecting on some of the most iconic storylines he had been involved in, Jack then continued: "I got to write Vanessa's return and subsequent love triangle between her Mary and Suzy, Charles and Manpreet's engagement, Marlon and Rhona's struggles with baby Ivy, early tests in Dawn and Billy's relationship as new parents, and Matty and Amy's rocky road to marriage the soap's first trans wedding." The writer then added: "There was a lot of romance in all of these stories but also moustache-twizzling villains, amorous deceit, and shifting games of thrones that stretched me as a twenty-something cis-straight white male to think about how we represent the lives of such a diverse set of characters." "It was a journey.
From struggling to write a six episode arc on day one to being given sixty scenes to polish up by the end of the day towards the end.
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