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| Max King | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Portrayed by | Charlie Kemp | ||||||||||||||||||
| First appearance | 3 January 2005 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Last appearance | 2 October 2005 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Introduced by | Kathleen Beedles | ||||||||||||||||||
| Classification | Former; regular | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Occupation | Veterinary Surgeon | ||||||||||||||||||
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Max King is a fictional character from the British ITV soap opera, Emmerdale , portrayed by Charlie Kemp.
Max arrived in Emmerdale in early 2005, nearly a year after the introduction of the rest of his family. He and his girlfriend had been backpacking around the world but Max went home for his father's ill-fated wedding to Charity Dingle (Emma Atkins)
Max was seen by many as the black sheep of his family and was, like his elder brother Jimmy (Nick Miles), a lot less hard-headed than a "typical King". He did not work for the family business King & Sons like his brothers as he had recently finished university, where he had trained to be a vet, and then went on an around-the-world trip. He came to Emmerdale for his father's wedding, planning to continue his trip later but Tom got him a job at Paddy Kirk (Dominic Brunt)'s practice after telling him that if he continued on his travels he would need to support himself.
However, in late 2005, he was conned by his father in order to get some land he wanted. Tom used Max's position as a vet to poison the animals kept by the owners who refused to sell the land. However, Tom had insisted he do this to show gratitude for allowing him to go to university.
After having been bullied into poisoning the Briggs family's calves by Tom, a guilty Max decided to leave the village in October 2005, sick and tired of his father's chicanery. He and Robert Sugden (Karl Davies) were going to leave Emmerdale and drive to London but Robert's adopted brother Andy (Kelvin Fletcher) got into a fight with Robert. Max broke up the fight and decided that he did not want to go with Robert and got into Andy's land rover and asked him to drive him to the railway station. Robert, who had driven off, turned his car round and drove straight at them, causing Max to grab the steering wheel and send the rover off the road and through a brick wall. Max was trapped in the Land Rover and was killed instantly when it exploded after rolling onto its roof, just weeks shy of his 26th birthday. After the tragedy, Tom blamed himself for the amount of pressure he had put upon Max; for the horrific death of his youngest child.
It was revealed on the day of Donna Windsor's (Verity Rushworth) wedding to Marlon Dingle (Mark Charnock) in February 2006, (this was after Max's death) that Donna had developed feelings for Max. Marlon was devastated by this revelation but they still got married in a double wedding with Donna's mother Viv (Deena Payne) and stepfather Bob Hope (Tony Audenshaw).
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Robert Jacob Sugden is a fictional character from the British ITV soap opera Emmerdale. The character originally appeared on the show regularly between 22 April 1986 and 3 October 2005. During that time he was first played as a baby by Richard Smith from 1986 and 1989 before the role was taken over by Christopher Smith from 1989 and 2001. In 2001, Karl Davies took over the role in order for the character to become involved in more adult storylines, as he grew older. Davies briefly reprised his role as Robert for one episode airing on 10 February 2009, when he returned for the funeral of his father and longest running character Jack Sugden. The character returned on 23 October 2014 with actor Ryan Hawley taking over the role.
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Donna Windsor is a fictional character from the British ITV soap opera Emmerdale. She was originally played by Sophie Jeffery until 1997. Actress Verity Rushworth took over the role in 1998. She made her first appearance in the show on 31 August 1993. Donna departed on 30 January 2009. At the time of her departure, Donna was the third longest running character on Emmerdale. It was announced on 8 January 2014 that Rushworth had decided to reprise her role as Donna for five months. She returned on 19 March 2014 and it was revealed that Donna was terminally ill. Donna committed suicide on 14 August 2014, after throwing herself and Gary North from a multi-storey car park to her death, but made her final appearance the following day, on 15 August 2014.
Tom King is a fictional character from the British ITV soap opera Emmerdale, who appeared on the show from 29 February 2004 before being killed off on 25 December 2006 in a long-running "whodunit" storyline dubbed Who Killed Tom King?. He was last seen on 27 December 2006 as a dead body in a morgue. Throughout his time on the show he was portrayed by Kenneth Farrington. Farrington decided to leave the show in 2006 but reprised the role briefly as a ghost in a "Text Santa" special on 20 December 2013.
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