Emma Atkins wants to be EastEnders killer to complete her soaps bingo card

‘Emmerdale’ star Emma Atkins joked that she would like to murder someone as it's the only storyline she hasn't tackled.

The 48-year-old actress has played Charity Dingle on the ITV soap since 2000, and she thinks at this point the only fresh plot point for her character would be a pivot to being a killer.

She told the Daily Star newspaper: “I think I’ve blackmailed, but I’ve not killed anyone. Then again, when they say a character’s killed someone then it’s slippery slope.”

Emma quipped it would be “boring” to wish happiness on Charity.

She said: “I think she’s pretty much done everything. To say I’d want her to be happy is a bit boring.”

Recently, Emma teased a “magical” moment when Charity realises that her husband Mackenzie Boyd (Lawrence Robb) is the father of Chloe Harris’ baby Reuben as the new mother - who is played by Jessie Elland - asks if he wants to see his son as she recovers from meningitis and his wife overhears.

She said: "There's a moment in the village where we bump into each other, and Mackenzie doesn't know that Charity knows and that is magical."

Her 31-year-old co-star added that they used a filming technique that hadn’t “ever been done in a soap before".

Lawrence said: "Then there's a scene immediately after that, that we all shot together and that was a learning experience for us all,

"When it all comes out, hopefully, we've done it justice but I don't think it's ever been done in soap before, what we did."

Emma added: "It just breaks a few of the boundaries of normal soap filming."

Emma admitted: “We had a blast filming it. A normal scene is usually four or five pages, and that's a big scene. This was like 17 or 18 pages, so it's a continuation, and it's the unravelling."