{"id":506849,"date":"2026-06-18T22:12:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T22:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/506849\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T22:12:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T22:12:10","slug":"emmerdale-star-addresses-debbie-dingles-absence-from-huge-ongoing-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/506849\/","title":{"rendered":"Emmerdale star addresses Debbie Dingle’s absence from huge ongoing story"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former Emmerdale<\/a> star Charley Webb has been candid about her potential return to the soap, explaining why her character Debbie Dingle hasn’t come back amid Charity Dingle’s bombshell baby storyline.<\/p>\n

Emmerdale has seen Charity agree to be the surrogate for her granddaughter – aka Debbie’s daughter – Sarah Sugden and her husband Jacob. What Sarah and Jacob don’t know, however, is that baby Leyla is biologically Charity’s daughter with Ross Barton, conceived during a one-night stand.<\/p>\n

If you’d think that with such an explosive story, Sarah’s mum Debbie would return to the Dales, you’d have to think again.<\/p>\n

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Appearing on the Live Laugh Luke<\/a> podcast, Charley Webb, who played Debbie, weighed in on a possible return to the Dales, ruling out an imminent appearance from her character.<\/p>\n

“Not at the moment, no,” she said of a return. “There’s no plans for me to go back just because I think it wouldn’t be the right time.”<\/p>\n

She added: “Having three kids is a lot. Also working there is a lot. So, not at the moment, but never say never.”<\/p>\n

She also revealed that she’d been asked to return “a few times”.<\/p>\n

“But again it just wasn’t the right time,” she said.<\/p>\n

“There’s quite a big story at the moment with the girl that played my mum having a baby and everyone’s like, ‘You would be there. You would be there.’ And I’m like, ‘Well, I’m not right now,'” she said, addressing Charity’s baby story.<\/p>\n

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Meanwhile on the soap, Charity has been going through a horrific ordeal with village villain Dr Caitlin Todd. Todd, who had found out that baby Leyla isn’t Sarah and Jacob’s daughter, had been blackmailing Charity to keep quiet.<\/p>\n

Todd’s scheming against the Woolpack landlady saw a harrowing development when the doctor assaulted Charity<\/a>. <\/p>\n

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

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