Emmerdale tease 'a rollercoaster of emotions' for soap's 50th anniversary

‘Emmerdale’ bosses have teased the 50th anniversary special episode will be “a rollercoaster of emotions”.

The ITV soap promises “a lot of tears” when a devastating storm hits the village later this month.

Producer Jane Hudson said: "It is a rollercoaster of emotions and there is a visual impact that will blow more than your socks off, put it that way. There’s deaths, there’s destruction but there’s also real moments of intimacy, of heartbreak and of love. We’re going to see our characters tested in not just their physical strength but their emotional strength as well.

"There’s going to be a lot of tears - I must warn you about that - and we’ll see our community have to deal with the aftermath of this horrific storm. The month has already started with Aaron’s return, we’ve seen that on screen.”

Jane revealed their will be more than Faith Dingle (Sally Dexter) and her “incredibly sad” death to get the waterworks going over the coming weeks.

She said: "Of course we’ve got the Faith storyline coming up which is going to be incredibly sad. Then we go into our storm, which has got more than one stunt across the week. And then just when you think things can’t get any worse for our 'Emmerdale' characters they really really do and we end the month on a really big bang that propels us well into the new year."

Jane felt the storm was “fitting” for both the setting of the soap, and the amount of actors they had in the cast.

She said: "If you’re familiar with Yorkshire weather, we get some really really bad winds up here. It just felt fitting for us to do that. The other thing that was really important for us was to use as many of our characters as possible.

"We’ve got a cast of over 60 and they all do an amazing job and this shows them at their best and everybody gets a part to play across this month."

'Emmerdale' will air an hour-long episode on a Sunday, October 16th, to celebrate the soap's 50th anniversary.