{"id":310007,"date":"2026-01-29T15:57:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T15:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/310007\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T15:57:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T15:57:10","slug":"emmerdale-star-defends-decision-to-kill-off-controversial-character","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/310007\/","title":{"rendered":"Emmerdale star defends decision to kill off controversial character"},"content":{"rendered":"

Emmerdale<\/a> star Dominic Brunt<\/a> has spoken out about Ray Walters’ shocking death<\/a> in the ITV soap. Ray and his mother Celia Daniels<\/a> wreaked havoc in the village over recent months, dragging Bear Wolf<\/a> into a harrowing modern-day slavery storyline<\/a> in which he was subjected to forced labour and shocking living conditions.<\/p>\n

Ray’s body was found earlier this month, and after weeks of speculation as to which character had been behind the villain’s murder<\/a>, it was revealed that Bear had strangled Ray to death<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Now, Paddy and Dylan Penders<\/a> are covering up Bear’s crimes<\/a>, something made all the more difficult now that police are involved in his case after he was found dazed and confused wandering around the area<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Speaking to The Mirror<\/a>, Brunt – who plays Paddy – shared his opinion on Ray’s death, saying: “You just simply cannot let people get away with that.”<\/p>\n

“For us as actors and as a company, we really didn’t want him to go, or Jaye [Griffiths, who played Celia]. But at the same time, soaps are a moral compass, and you just cannot have somebody murdering somebody or human trafficking,” he continued.<\/p>\n

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“And as much as you give them the human edge, like with the love story between Ray and Laurel, you just simply cannot let people get away with that.<\/p>\n

“I think we have a moral kind of standard and a duty, really, to end stories like this correctly.<\/p>\n

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Related: Emmerdale reveals where Bear ended up after huge Ray shock<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

“Ray was really good and really interesting, and a full 360 degrees three dimensional character with a backstory that wasn’t simple.”<\/p>\n

Brunt added: “You were watching it going, you wouldn’t have done. You wouldn’t be in this position if it wasn’t for the fact that this had happened.” <\/p>\n

Emmerdale<\/strong> airs on weeknights at 8pm on ITV1, and streams on <\/strong>ITVX<\/strong><\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Read more <\/strong>Emmerdale<\/strong> spoilers on our dedicated homepage<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

For exclusive soap star interviews, gossip, spoilers and theories every week, don’t miss the <\/strong>Soap Scoop podcast<\/strong><\/a> from <\/strong>Inside Soap<\/strong> magazine. <\/strong>The latest episode<\/strong><\/a> delves into next week\u2019s soap spoilers, from Moira\u2019s arrest in <\/strong>Emmerdale<\/strong>, to Nigel and Julie\u2019s wedding in <\/strong>EastEnders<\/strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emmerdale star Dominic Brunt has spoken out about Ray Walters’ shocking death in the ITV soap. Ray and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310008,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[265],"tags":[150409,341,151639,343,18,117,19,17,342,151638,150436,128],"class_list":{"0":"post-310007","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-collection-latest-news","9":"tag-content-type-news","10":"tag-contentid-65e249c1-f54f-4822-ab4e-8bbe8f59da2d","11":"tag-displaytype-standard-article","12":"tag-eire","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-locale-gb","17":"tag-shorttitle-emmerdale-star-defends-controversial-characters-death","18":"tag-subsection-emmerdale","19":"tag-tv"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115979212883491571","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}