Emmerdale’s Marlon Dingle was originally supposed to be ‘absolute hunk’

OHMYGOSSIP — Emmerdale’s Marlon Dingle was originally supposed to be “the sort of man who makes women melt” before being recast as an “absolute dweeb”.
Mark Charnock has played the character in the ITV soap for 25 years and he has revealed show bosses originally planned for Marlon to be an “Adonis” before changing their minds and reimagining him as a “nerd”.
Speaking to the Daily Mirror newspaper, the actor said the original script at his 1996 audition read: “Marlon appears, he is a Greek god, an Adonis, the sort of man who makes women melt.”
Mark went on: “I went into the loo and looked in the mirror and thought ‘They have got the wrong guy.’
“I said to the director, ‘Can I just ask you about this description? He said, ‘Oh yes, don’t worry, he’s now a nerd who thinks he’s those things.’
“They were going to have him as an absolute hunk, a beautiful, carved thing. At some point someone said wouldn’t it be funny if he was just an absolute dweeb who thought he was that? That was why I got the audition …
“I don’t know how many nerds they saw that day, but I’m glad they saw me.”
Mark has stayed with the show for more than two decades and said he loves the stability of working on a soap.
However, the TV star admitted he still gets worried every time his contract is up for renewal, explaining he has a fear of being let go.
Mark said: “You can never think beyond the end of your contract, ever. Often they will ring you and it’s kind of like the doctors – ‘It’s nothing to worry about, we just need you to come in…’
“They know me well enough to say ‘nothing to worry about’. You do get a bit like, ‘Could this be it?’ ”

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