Emmerdale Halloween horror confirmed for Kim as seismic twist unfolds | Soaps

Kim Tate’s (Claire King) got a hell of a lot going on right now in Emmerdale, hasn’t she?

She’s just lost her daughter in law Dawn Taylor (Olivia Bromley) to a cataclysmic car accident, and the fallout has turned her step-grandson-turned-pseudo-son Joe Tate (Ned Porteous) into a vitriolic, ice-cold monster, with his mind solely fixed on the pursuit of revenge.

Oh, and the daughter she gave up for adoption 26 years ago, DS Thea Ramsden (Chelsea Edge), has suddenly re-emerged as a vengeful police officer, determined to wreak abject havoc on her life.

Nope, can’t forget that bit!

As of right now, Kim has no idea that the scheming copper who’s made no bones about the fact that she’s out to get her is actually the daughter she gave up once upon a time in a land not-so-far-away.

Memories of the adoption have been plaguing her, though, as Joe has pledged to hand over his baby boy – the baby Dawn gave birth to before her untimely demise, in a move that looks set to rip the remnants of the Tate family apart.

When she was last asked about just when Kim would discover the truth about Thea, Claire said: ‘There’s quite a long way to go before we get to the reaction, because of certain storylines.

‘There are a lot of ins and outs and ups and downs on the route to that.’

Well, a recent jaunt on This Morning revealed that the date has been decided when Kim will discover the truth: at the apex of the upcoming spooky season!

‘She’s hounding Kim because she’s being vengeful,’ Claire said, referencing Thea’s alliance with Serena Sugden (Casey Al-Shaqsy). ‘Kim doesn’t know yet, but she will find out!

‘It’s Halloween – so something happens at Halloween and they find out.’

I don’t know about you, but something about that seems absolutely perfect, doesn’t it?

Claire also teased an event that Emmerdale fans the world over have been hoping and praying for: Kim Tate vs Sadie King (Patsy Kensit) and admitted that while a full-on blood feud has yet to occur, the bitchy barbs that both femme fatales are adored for have come out!

‘We haven’t had a lot together,’ Claire began.

‘We’re kind of on parallel lines at the moment – and she’s working really hard as well.

‘But we’re not crossing that much. I’ve no doubt that we will do, but we’ve had a bit of Alexis and Krystle in the village.’

Claire also revealed a backstage secret: while Kim and Sadie are natural enemies off-screen, she and Patsy are roommates off-screen!

‘We share a dressing room as well. We’re like ‘do you remember this in 1983?’ and the others are going ‘I wasn’t even born then!”

Teasing how busy she’s been recently, Claire said: ‘You’ve constantly got a script in your hands.

‘Last night was the first time I didn’t, because they don’t come out until today.

‘I get reams of dialogue. We get them two weeks prior to actually filming them, but of course during those two weeks, you’re actually filming another 50 scenes.

‘And it’s relentless at the moment because we’ve got full-on stories.’

I mean, the more Kim the better for us, but we get it!

This week’s episodes of Emmerdale sees Dawn’s funeral finally arrive, and Kim is unshakeable in her attempts to hold what’s left of her crumbling family together; though while she’s focussed on baby Tate, Joe has an entirely different and more terrifying plan altogether…

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