{"id":452348,"date":"2026-02-01T21:28:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T21:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/452348\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T21:28:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T21:28:11","slug":"emmerdale-star-confirms-future-after-moira-dingles-prison-twist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/452348\/","title":{"rendered":"Emmerdale star confirms future after Moira Dingle’s prison twist"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thing are looking desperate for Emmerdale<\/a>‘s Moira Dingle right, with the character being sent to prison<\/a> on a double murder charge<\/a>, for the deaths of Anya and Celia Daniels – crimes she didn’t commit.<\/p>\n

Of course, this has left fans worried about the character’s future, fearing that actress Natalie J Robb could soon be leaving the series – however, the star has now said this isn’t the case, at least not for now.<\/p>\n

Speaking to The Mirror<\/a>, on the prospect of her leaving the series, Robb said: “I think that would be the first thing they would say to you, they’d say ‘This is going to be it.’ I’ve been lucky enough just to get another contract so I think they would obviously have to say, ‘Sorry, you’re going to be leaving and this is gonna be your out.’<\/p>\n

“So when they just told me about the story I didn’t think that I would be leaving. I just didn’t really know how long I was going to be in for, and how serious the allegations were going to be at that point.”<\/p>\n

\"Cain<\/p>\n

Cain talks to Moira in Emmerdale.\u00a0ITV<\/p>\n

Robb also broke down Moira’s state at this moment, saying: “She just feels like she’s losing everything. She’s got Cain to worry about. In a weird way, I think that’s what’s getting her through where she’s at at the minute. She’s just so overwhelmed by the fact that it’s actually all happening. She can’t believe it.”<\/p>\n

She also said that fans will see Moira with the “odd black eye and grazed knuckles” during her time in prison, but added that “she’ll always fight back”.<\/p>\n

Robb has been a part of the Emmerdale cast since 2009, and is therefore a real mainstay of the soap. Fans will no doubt be relieved to hear that she will be sticking around as Moira – even if it currently isn’t clear just what the future holds for the character.<\/p>\n

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It’s a troubling time for the Dingle clan generally, as Moira’s husband Can is set to receive a diagnosis of prostate cancer<\/a>, in a storyline that will play out this upcoming week.<\/p>\n

Emmerdale airs weeknights at 8pm on ITV1. Stream on ITVX.<\/p>\n

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Check out more of our Soaps<\/a> coverage or visit our TV Guide<\/a> and Streaming Guide <\/a>to find out what’s on. For more TV recommendations and reviews, listen to The Radio Times Podcast<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thing are looking desperate for Emmerdale‘s Moira Dingle right, with the character being sent to prison on a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":452349,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,134,427],"class_list":["post-452348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=452348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/452349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}