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"Emmerdale star Mark Charnock has promised that the soap has a gripping Christmas episode lined up. The actor, who plays Marlon Dingle, appeared on This Morning today (December 3) and explained that fans can expect a mix of comedy and drama in the show&amp;#039;s festive edition.  [Pictured: Mark Charnock on This Morning] Charnock commented: &amp;quot;Our Christmas Day is a belter this year. It&amp;#039;s an absolute belter. It&amp;#039;s also got some very, very good comedy in it, particularly from Charlotte Bellamy who plays Laurel.  &amp;quot;There&amp;#039;s some really funny stuff, but the drama&amp;#039;s shocking!&amp;quot; Cameron Murray (Dominic Power) has been tipped to feature heavily in this year&amp;#039;s Christmas instalments as he murders another one of the villagers in a desperate bid to protect his killer secret.   Charnock also discussed Marlon&amp;#039;s ongoing relationship with Laurel, which has had a mixed reaction from fans as they first became attracted to each other when Laurel was still with ex-husband Ashley. Last month, a Digital Spy poll found that 69.68% of readers still didn&amp;#039;t like the pair together. Charnock said: &amp;quot;I either gets blokes going, &amp;#039;Well done mate!&amp;#039; or women going, &amp;#039;Now look\u2026&amp;#039; I&amp;#039;m getting this moral finger-wagging, or blokes patting me on the back.  &amp;quot;That&amp;#039;s what you want from a soap, you want it to split your audience. I think generally people root for Laurel and Marlon now. But it&amp;#039;s been a long journey coming.&amp;quot; Emmerdale continues tonight (December 3) at 7pm on ITV1. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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