'Emmerdale' star "touched" by fan response

Lucy Pargeter has thanked Emmerdale fans for their support following a positive response to the launch of her latest storyline.

In last night's double bill of the ITV1 soap, the actress's character Chas Dingle was left devastated as she finally discovered that her partner Carl King (Tom Lister) is having an affair with Eve Jenson (Suzanne Shaw).

Emotional scenes in yesterday's episodes saw Chas prepare to angrily confront the pair, before Charity Tate (Emma Atkins) convinced her to bide her time and plot some revenge.

Writing on Twitter last night, Pargeter commented: "Wow!! I can't believe all the tweets I've had, usually I can reply but bugger me there's been loads!! Thank you so, so much, I'm really touched."

She added: "We have and still are working hard on the storyline but never have I had so much support, thank you to all of you who have tweeted."

Pargeter recently confirmed that the tale of Chas's revenge will be a slow-burn storyline which has its "pay-off" at Christmas.

Meanwhile, Suzanne Shaw has admitted that Eve will be "completely humiliated" when Chas gets even.