{"id":289946,"date":"2026-02-10T05:19:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T05:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/289946\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T05:19:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T05:19:08","slug":"emmerdale-announces-jacob-bullying-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/289946\/","title":{"rendered":"Emmerdale announces Jacob bullying story"},"content":{"rendered":"

Doctor Todd<\/a> is set to return to Emmerdale<\/a>, with Caroline Harker reprising her role in a new storyline exploring workplace bullying and power dynamics.<\/p>\n

The Midsomer Murders actor first appeared as Doctor Todd in January last year, while mentoring trainee doctor Jacob Gallagher<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But his professional life<\/a> is about to become “a battleground” when Doctor Todd returns to the ITV soap, ruthlessly criticising the young trainee.<\/p>\n

A synopsis teases: “The storyline will delve into Jacob’s struggle to manage his work-life balance under the immense pressure of his overbearing boss. <\/p>\n

“The stakes are raised further when Doctor Todd installs herself in the village, blurring the lines between Jacob\u2019s professional and private life.”<\/p>\n

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Speaking about her return, Caroline Harker commented: “I\u2019m delighted to be back at Emmerdale for a longer stint playing Doctor Todd. She\u2019s a complex character and from what I\u2019ve been told so far, quite a tricky one for Jacob to navigate. <\/p>\n

“Workplace bullying is commonplace, and it will be interesting to see it brought to our screens in a serial drama such as Emmerdale.”<\/p>\n

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Emmerdale producer Laura Shaw added: “We are looking forward to seeing the machinations of someone like Caitlin Todd, and it\u2019s not just at the hospital where she will start to make an impression. <\/p>\n

“Caroline is a fabulous actor and brings such great experience to this role – we can\u2019t wait for her to play out what we have planned for the character.”<\/p>\n

Emmerdale airs on weeknights at 8pm on ITV1, and streams on ITVX<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Read more Emmerdale spoilers on our dedicated homepage<\/a><\/p>\n

For exclusive soap star interviews, gossip, spoilers and theories every week, don’t miss the Soap Scoop podcast<\/a> from Inside Soap magazine. The latest episode<\/a> delves into next week\u2019s soap spoilers, from Robert\u2019s feud with Joe in Emmerdale, to Carl\u2019s dangerous new plan in Coronation Street.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Doctor Todd is set to return to Emmerdale, with Caroline Harker reprising her role in a new storyline…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289947,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[131124,1105,138993,1107,93,61,60,1135,138992,131123,282],"class_list":["post-289946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-collection-latest-news","tag-content-type-news","tag-contentid-7609ad29-f8d9-4200-a890-99c3a9bb5826","tag-displaytype-standard-article","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-locale-gb","tag-shorttitle-emmerdale-announces-jacob-bullying-story","tag-subsection-emmerdale","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}