{"id":263884,"date":"2025-07-14T09:39:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T09:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/263884\/"},"modified":"2025-07-14T09:39:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T09:39:10","slug":"emmerdales-john-middleton-joins-rival-soap-for-evil-role-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/263884\/","title":{"rendered":"Emmerdale’s John Middleton joins rival soap for ‘evil’ role"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n The actor, who played the lovely village\u00a0vicar, Ashley Thomas, on the ITV show from 1996 until 2017, is set to appear on Hollyoaks as a mob boss.\n<\/p>\n

\n He left the Yorkshire Dales after his character suffered a\u00a0harrowing dementia storyline.\n<\/p>\n

\n Before taking on his most famous role as Ashley, he originally appeared in Emmerdale<\/a> as PC\u00a0John Jarvis briefly.\n<\/p>\n

Emmerdale star John Middleton joins\u00a0Hollyoaks as ‘most evil character ever’<\/p>\n

\n Discussing the new role on Hollyoaks<\/a> for the ITV<\/a> actor, a source said: “People usually think of Ashley when they see John, but that won\u2019t be happening any more, Fraser is about as far away from the kindly vicar you can get.”\n<\/p>\n

\n Talking with The Sun<\/a>, they added: “He\u2019s possibly the most evil character Hollyoaks has ever had – and for a village plagued by serial killers, that\u2019s saying something. Fraser will make his entrance very soon, and he\u2019s got more than one connection to the village with his twisted family already there.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

\n When he joins the Channel 4 programme in the near future, fans will quickly come to know him as\u00a0the father of notorious villain, Fraser Black, played by Jesse Birdsall.\n<\/p>\n

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\n This character terrorised residents\u00a0on the show before being murdered in 2014.\n<\/p>\n

\n A ‘whodunnit’ storyline, which went on for several months after his death, revealed that\u00a0he was shot by his very own stepson, Freddie Roscoe (played by Charlie Clapham).\n<\/p>\n

\n He is also the grandfather of shady Hollyoaks characters like Clare Devine, Grace Black and Rex Gallagher.\n<\/p>\n

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What other\u00a0shows has Emmerdale\u00a0star\u00a0John Middleton been in?<\/p>\n

\n According to IMDb<\/a>, the 71-year-old actor from\u00a0Bradford has starred in a number of shows beyond Emmerdale.\n<\/p>\n

\n From 1993 until 1995, he starred in four episodes of Coronation Street as\u00a0John Hargreaves, the man who knocked down and killed\u00a0Lisa Duckworth, and Mr. Mitchell, a hospital consultant.\n<\/p>\n

\n He was also in two episodes of The Gambling Man and even appeared as Tony Warren in the 1998 TV movie\u00a0The Things You Do for Love: Against the Odds.\n<\/p>\n

\n In 2021, he appeared in the medical programme Doctors.\n<\/p>\n