Emmerdale Insider’s Carena Crawford thinks Ella should have gone crazy well before now…
I know, I know, we’ve banged on about Paula Lane being wasted as Ella Forster in Emmerdale multiple times, you’re probably as sick of it as we are of hearing her say “I didn’t do it”.
BUT – and it’s a big but – I really, truly, honestly believe it.
The woman who played Kylie Platt in Coronation Street is coming to Emmerdale and what do they do? Make her a child killer and then forget about her.
The psycho stalker we’re witnessing at the moment is where they should have gone all along.
Ella in Emmerdale this year
For the past six months Ella had a shortlived relationship ith Dr Liam, fawned over him repeatedly when he dumped her for Chas, whinged about being alone, lost her job at the vets, lost her home with Liam and moved in with Manpreet. She’s been through a lot so of course she’s entitled to be a bit woe is me, but it’s all been rather boring.
And now, she’s been accused of spiking Chas Dingle. She’s also been sacked from the surgery and told to move out by Manpreet. She’s effectively being forced out of the village and her reaction is to go crazy.
The genius of Paula Lane’s performance is that we genuinely don’t know whether Ella is telling the truth. Is she as unhinged as she appears? Or are her desperate protestations of innocence because she’s so frustrated no one believes her when she’s actually not lying? We just don’t know and it’s brilliant.
In fact, this should have happened a long time ago. All this time Ella could have been going off the rails in the background starting out small and moving to this big crescendo of harrassment drama. And we could have been guessing who the bad guy really was.
All of this should have been playing out for a while, Emmerdale definitely missed a trick with this one.