{"id":632600,"date":"2026-06-11T06:54:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T06:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/632600\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T06:54:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T06:54:18","slug":"exclusive-emmerdale-star-ash-palmisciano-calls-for-powerful-new-matty-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/632600\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive: Emmerdale star Ash Palmisciano calls for “powerful” new Matty story"},"content":{"rendered":"

Emmerdale<\/a> star Ash Palmisciano has revealed that he’d love to see his character Matty Barton become soap’s first-ever transgender dad.<\/p>\n

At last year’s Inside Soap Awards, Ash was asked what he’d like to see for Matty’s future following his wife Amy Barton’s death<\/a> \u2013 and revealed that he’d like for his character to continue with their shared dream to adopt a child.<\/p>\n

In an exclusive chat with Inside Soap<\/a> as part of the magazine’s first-ever Pride issue, Ash reaffirmed that he would still love to see Matty become a dad and adopt on his own.<\/p>\n

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“Seeing a single parent anyway is always great but seeing a trans dad, we\u2019ve never seen that on TV before,” Ash explains. “It would be so powerful to show that just because you\u2019re LGBTQ+, you can be an incredible parent.<\/p>\n

“Matty would make a great dad, and I always had this romantic idea that he would go on and do it even without Amy.”
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Back in 2024, Emmerdale aired the soap’s first-ever transgender wedding<\/a> between Matty and his partner Amy. Despite Amy dying in the limo crash last year, the wedding episode was still hugely monumental for soap as a whole \u2013 and Ash reveals that it’s one of the things he’s most proud of appearing in so far.<\/p>\n

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“That\u2019s an absolute highlight,” he gushes. “It was very sweet and genuine, and it was such a lovely, happy episode rather than someone turning up to stop the wedding in true soap fashion!<\/p>\n

“It was just a couple that fell in love and wanted to spend their lives together, a universal love story. I\u2019ll always be proud of that!”
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Read the full chat with Ash in the new bumper Pride issue of Inside Soap<\/a>, out now.<\/p>\n

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

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