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SOAPBOX: THE HAPPY COUPLE GO NECK TO NECKING.

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(From The Mirror)

Byline: Tony Stewart

EMMERDALE

The bride is certainly blushing, but then so too are a lot of other people. The hapless groom and the naughty mother of the bride have every reason to be shame-faced over their indiscretions. And even a mortified Reverend Ashley manages to get himself locked up with a nun and her rather dirty habits.

Get me to the church on time? This lot should be so lucky...

To mark this hilarious soap's 30th anniversary on Wednesday, the calamitous comedy couple of Trish and Marlon - played superbly by Sheree Murphy and Mark Charnock as the Sybil and Basil of Tateville - are set to walk down the aisle in the village's 37th wedding ceremony. And it has all the hallmarks of a classic.

First Trish and Marlon's wedding cake is held to ransom by the "burgling builders" Mack and Syd. Then Zak organises an inebriated and debauched stag night that results in Ashley being bundled into a van with the stripping nun, and Marlon encountering amorous Steph when he's blind drunk... which he'd have to be. Lorraine Chase may have been wafted in from Luton Airport to advertise Campari all those years ago, but as a man-eating future mum- in-law, she's all Martini girl. Any time, any place, anywhere is her motto as she moves in for some serious necking...

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