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Emmerdale airs another huge Charity Dingle lie in desperate bid to protect Sarah Sugden in early ITVX release
Warning: Contains spoilers for Friday's episode of Emmerdale, which airs at 8pm on ITV1 or can be streamed now on ITVX.
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- Michael Adams
Published: Friday, 14 August 2026 at 11:27 am
Charity Dingle (Emma Atkins) is scrambling to protect granddaughter Sarah Sugden (Katie Hill) in Emmerdale.
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Earlier this week, after discovering that Dr Caitlin Todd (Caroline Harker) had raped Charity, Sarah pushed the surgeon to her death.
She was stunned when her grandmother took responsibility.
She was concerned that, if Sarah was sent down, she'd lose out on vital time with her daughter Leyla. The bigger issue is that, although Charity was surrogate during the baby's gestation, she isn't Sarah's daughter at all.
Charity had actually fallen pregnant with Ross Barton's (Michael Parr) child instead.
Emma Atkins as Charity Dingle and Lawrence Robb as Mackenzie Boyd. ITV
After being released on bail, Charity's husband Mackenzie Boyd (Lawrence Robb) couldn't shake the idea that he was missing something. He was convinced that there was more to the story, though she gave him the cold shoulder and insisted that, if he couldn't stand beside her, she'd rather not have him at all.
With something still niggling away at the back of his head, Mack plagued her for answers in today's episode.
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He expressed his belief that she'd purposely killed Todd in a bid to seek revenge for what she did, and rather than correct him, she went along with his story.
Mack was stunned and confronted Sarah over the revelation, though she kept quiet and didn't give anything away.
She soon realised that he'd fabricated his own perception of events, and promised to "pull it together" so that investigating detective DS Ramsden (Chelsea Edge) didn't realise she was lying.
Will Sarah's guilty conscience get the better of her?
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Michael AdamsSoaps Editor
Michael Adams is the Soaps Editor at Radio Times, covering all of the hot gossip and spoilers from Weatherfield to Walford, Emmerdale to Hollyoaks and everywhere in-between. He joined the team from Metro, where he spent two years as a Soaps Reporter and previously worked on the sets of both Coronation Street and Emmerdale.
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