'Emmerdale' spoilers! WHO'S DEAD?

Emmerdale survival week characters
Who loses their life during the terrifying climax of Emmerdale's super soap week? (Image credit: ITV)

In Emmerdale someone loses their life in Thursday's second episode (ITV, 8.00pm see our TV Guide for listings).

The double bill of Thursday's Emmerdale episodes is set to come to a nail-biting climax, even more terrifying than the horror of the days before!

As super soap week edges towards a close in the Dales, lives are in the balance at Priya and Ellis' terrifying survival-challenge-gone-wrong and someone's actually a goner…

But who's met their maker? And how?

With killer Meena Jutla out for revenge on Victoria and having already drowned her in the rapids, she then vaught someone watching her trying to kill her love rival and now wants them dead too to save her secret. 

But as the survival challenge comes to a terrifying end at the maize maze, not everyone will make it out alive. LIves are about to be changed forever, but who will be caught up in the sinister drama? 

Tune in to find out ALL…

Emmerdale airs weekdays on ITV at 7.00pm with an extra episode on Thursdays at 8.00pm.


  • General Cast 
  • Rhona Goskirk - Zoe Henry 
  • Paddy Kirk - Dominic Brunt 
  • Kim Tate - Claire King 
  • Harriet Finch - Katherine Dow Blyton 
  • Eric Pollard - Chris Chittell 
  • Bear Wolf - Joshua Richards 
  • David Metcalfe - Matthew Wolfenden 
  • Jai Sharma - Chris Bisson 
  • Rishi Sharma - Bhasker Patel 
  • Priya Kotecha - Fiona Wade 
  • Tracy Metcalfe - Amy Walsh 
  • Liv Flaherty - Isobel Steele
  • Jacob Gallagher - Joe-Warren Plant 
  • Wendy Posner - Susan Cookson 
  • Bob Hope - Tony Audenshaw 
  • Amy Wyatt - Natalie Ann Jamieson 
  • Liam Cavanagh - Jonny McPherson 
  • Leyla Cavanagh - Roxy Shahidi
  • Rodney Blackstock - Patrick Mower 
  • Brenda Walker - Lesley Dunlop 
  • Matty Barton- Ash Palmisciano
  • Amelia Spencer - Daisy Campbell 
  • Dan Spencer - Liam Fox 
  • April Windsor - Amelia Flanagan 
  • Nate Robinson - Jurrell Carter 
  • Dawn Taylor - Olivia Bromley 
  • Manpreet Jutla - Rebecca Sarker 
  • Ryan Stocks - James Moore
  • Billy Fletcher - Jay Kontzle 
  • Will Taylor - Dean Andrews 
  • Mackenzie Barton - Lawrence Robb 
  • The Dingle Family
  • Marlon Dingle - Mark Charnock
  • Zak Dingle - Steve Halliwell
  • Debbie Dingle - Charley Webb
  • Mandy Dingle - Lisa Riley
  • Vinny Dingle - Bradley Johnson
  • Aaron Dingle - Danny Miller
  • Cain Dingle - Jeff Hordley
  • Moira Dingle - Natalie J Robb
  • Chas Dingle - Lucy Pargeter
  • Belle Dingle - Eden Taylor-Draper
  • Charity Dingle - Emma Atkins
  • Sam Dingle - James Hooten
  • Lydia Dingle - Karen Blick 
  • Noah Dingle - Jack Downham
  • Samson Dingle - Sam Hall
  • The Sugden Family 
  • Sarah Sugden - Katie Hill 
  • Diane Sugden - Elizabeth Estensen
  • Victoria Sugden - Isabel Hodgins
  • The King Family 
  • Nicola King - Nicola Wheeler
  • Jimmy King - Nick Miles 
  • The Tate Family 
  • Kim Tate - Claire King 
  • Jamie Tate - Alexander Lincoln 
  • Andrea Tate - Anna Nightingale 
  • Millie Tate - Willow Bell 
  • The Thomas Family 
  • Laurel Thomas - Charlotte Bellamy
  • Gabby Thomas - Rosie Bentham
  • Arthur Thomas - Alfie Clarke 
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