July 9th 2023.
Amelia Spencer has been through a lot, and it looks like she will be facing more trauma in upcoming Emmerdale episodes. Her dad, Dan, will be charged with GBH after confronting a man who was harassing Amelia online and in person.
It all began when Amelia started posting makeup tutorial videos on social media. Despite having a bad experience with social media, which led to her developing an eating disorder, Amelia has not yet learned how to protect her privacy online.
"I feel like she’s kind of forgotten what happened to her last year and she’s not really taken into consideration how scary the situation is," Daisy Campbell, who plays Amelia, told us. "I feel like maybe as time goes on she probably will see the dangers of what social media can cause."
It turns out the person sending Amelia increasingly disturbing messages was a man called Lloyd. Daisy explained, "She actually thought he was someone else. He’s been playing with her head a lot. When you watch it on screen when it finally comes out he’s played it very, very tricky where you’re sat there and you’re like, I don’t know how to feel about this. She’s confused, she feels bad, she doesn’t know what to do. She’s only young, this is a different situation for Amelia. The way he’s played it, it’s like he’s normal."
Noah and Dan become aware of the situation and when the police are not interested, Dan attempts to warn Lloyd off with threats. Unfortunately, the situation escalates and Dan ends up punching Lloyd with immense force, causing him serious damage.
Rather than protect Amelia, Dan finds himself facing a possible prison sentence. Daisy described her character’s reaction, "She’s shocked and I think confused. She’s quite angry because she’s trying to get her point across, not understanding why Dan’s done this. She’s frightened as well because it feels like her fault because she’s the one that started this whole social media thing."
When Dan realises what he has done, he turns on Amelia and lashes out at her. Daisy said, "It actually felt like my own dad was shouting at me. Dan’s never flipped out at Amelia, she’s always the one to flip out and he takes control of the situation. In this situation he flips out at Amelia and it felt awful, it felt like I was actually getting shouted at. I saw a different side to the character of Dan as well. That needed to happen to bring up everything that’s going to happen."
Daisy believes that this subject is important and it hasn’t been explored in the same way before in a soap. She said, "I remember learning about this in year 8 and I remember hearing a story from a man who came in and a similar situation happened to his son. When we got called up to hear about it all we thought this is so good. It’s not really been done before in a soap. I feel like it’s going to be a good one."
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