Emmerdale love triangle looms with new receptionist at heart of big storyline

13 February 2024 , 17:09

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Former Coronation Street star Paula Lane has joined Emmerdale as newbie Ella Foster, and it's clear there's a spark between her and one of the Dales' most eligible bachelors Dr Liam Cavanagh

Emmerdale have teased a love triangle storyline for Dr Liam Cavanagh and the surgery's new receptionist.

Paula Lane has joined the ITV soap as receptionist Ella Foster and it soon transpires that there's a spark between her and Dr Liam Cavanagh. Paula will be best known to soap fans for playing Kylie Platt on Coronation Street but she has now swapped the Cobbles for the Dales, where she has joined as new arrival Ella, who quickly establishes herself in the village.

Speaking about joining the show, she told The Mirror and other press: "Timings wise, I think I manifested it! And then a conversation came about and through that a seed was planted, and then the magic happens. So I think it was just yeah, a little bit of a coincidence. But it fell in my lap. And I feel really grateful and very thankful. And like I said, I just want to do the best that I can do.

Paula Lane recently joined Emmerdale

"I’m always a big believer in going with kind of what’s put in front of you. And the past seven years have been really exciting. I mean, I’ve covered loads of theatre, covered lots of ground, as well as raising my family, and doing guest roles on different TV programmes as well. So I think obviously, like you’re saying, when you are such a familiar face, it’s nice to give the audience a bit of a breather," she said of heading back to a serial drama for the first time in several years."

It's clear that things are brewing between Ella and Dr Liam. Speaking about a potential romance, she said: "There’s already been a relationship going on there at the minute in the surgery. So I don’t know.

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"There might be some fireworks, there’s a little bit of competition, perhaps. Little love triangle going on. But behind closed doors, who knows what can happen. So there’s a brand new set that we’re actually building, surgery is going to be on Main Street. And that’s when all this character will kind of come in, I’m going to be at the heart of the village, working out the new surgery."

Paula is adamant Ella will be completely different from Kylie. She said: "So just to create a brand new character, that’s what’s going to be really important for me now moving on, is that I develop something that’s going to be completely different to what people have seen seven years ago now. I think enough time has passed to be able to branch out and be seen as something different."

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Jasmine Allday