Emmerdale has confirmed that Belle Dingle’s marriage to Tom King is going to become abusive and controlling.
There have already been some pretty big clues that Belle’s whirlwind romance was going to take a dark turn.
Tom hitting her during the flashback episodes of Emmerdale last year was a big red flag! Though Belle managed to convince herself that was all just a mistake on Tom’s part.
Wedding blues for Belle and Tom in Emmerdale
Since then, the pair have got engaged and married in the space of a few weeks, though it was clear in the run-up to the wedding that Tom was becoming increasingly controlling.
He over-ruled Belle’s wishes on the wedding reception venue, her dress and even her name when she said she wanted to remain Belle Dingle and he sulked about it.
And it was clear the marriage was shaping up to be a mistake when Tom left Belle to sleep alone on the sofa on their wedding night after a row about her family.
Poor Belle read the letter her mum, Lisa, had written her before she died for her special day. As she read her mum’s words, expressing how she knew Belle would have married a good, kind man, viewers could see Belle wondering if she’d made an awful mistake.
Now the pair are back from their honeymoon and Belle’s starting to forget what a good relationship looks like.
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Eden Taylor-Draper, who plays Belle, says she think this is an important story to tell.
“Soaps offer the viewer a glimpse of life behind closed doors and reveal what people present to the world isn’t always a truth,” she says. “
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