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Emmerdale fans think there could be an upcoming sinister twist on the hit ITV soap after Rishi Sharma's heartbreaking and shocking death on Thursday night. Last week, as Jai Sharma and Laurel Thomas celebrated their wedding together with their family and friends, Rishi was not present, having fallen out with his son over lying about who his father really was.
In an emotional speech, Jai spoke of celebrating absent friends, as he thanked his dad Rishi for always supporting him and vowed to talk to him soon and tell him how much he meant to him. And, in true soap style, the camera then panned to see Rishi lying dead at the bottom of the stairs in a heartbreaking twist with his body discovered by Jai on Friday.
Soap watchers have been quick to speculate Rishi's cause of death with many wondering if he fell down the stairs or if he had a heart attack due to his past heart issues. However, some viewers think there could be a more sinister twist and that Rishi could have been pushed down the stairs as they questioned who could be a suspect.
Emmerdale fans think there could be an upcoming sinister twist on the hit ITV soap after Rishi Sharma's heartbreaking death (ITV Plc)Taking to social media, one person said: "Could there be a twist and Rishi was pushed down the stairs. Definitely wasn't Jai, but who else had a motive," followed by a string of thinking emojis. To which a different account replied: "His brother 4 telling Jai he was his father," while another follower wrote: "Im thinking its Suni if there was a twist, hes just come back and is acting all nice, he may have been sent by his dad as he knows that Jai was really his?!" While a different fan added: "Maybe Georgia his [Rishi's] ex wife!"
It comes after Emmerdale's Bhasker Patel broke his silence on Friday after his much-loved character, Rishi, died in a shock twist after 12 years in the village. Appearing on Friday's episode of Lorraine with co-star Chris Bisson, who plays Jai, Rishi star Bhasker, 67, got teary over his emotional ITV soap exit and revealed that producers decided to kill his character off.
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He said: "When the producer rang me and said: 'I need to talk to you and we're killing you off because we want a big story and it's going to be a big surprise.' Because my 12 years at ITV, they let me do a lot of other work, so I felt a part of ITV, a part of Rishi, but at the same time... I was working in London as well. So when the producer said 'we're going to kill you off', I was like: 'Okay, that part of my life with this guy is over and I'm going to move on'.''
To which guest host Christine Lampard said: "It's brutal though: 'we're going to kill you off' what a sentence to hear!" Later on the show, Christine, 44, decided to read out some messages from fans, which left Bhasker emotional as he wiped away tears.