Emmerdale spoiler video: Abuser Tom King lashes out at Belle Dingle leaving her destroyed
Tom King (James Chase) asserts his control over Belle Dingle (Eden Taylor-Draper) again in Emmerdale soon, leaving her in a state about their wedding.
While we’ve known for weeks that Tom is bad news, Belle has put up with his behaviour because of how much love she has for him.
From harsh comments right through to violently attacking Belle, Tom has slowly shown he constantly wants to get his own way – and will respond dangerously if otherwise.
In this new video, Belle is in a serious panic at the Dingle household. She reveals to Mandy (Lisa Riley) and Lydia (Karen Blick) that Tom had a go at her last night and now, she isn’t even sure if there will be a wedding.
Eden Taylor-Draper spoke of Belle’s state of mind: ‘[The wedding] isn’t going ahead – he hates me – I’ve done this to myself – I’m not good enough. She is really anxious about it as she thinks she has ruined the one good thing that was going for her.’ Tom has her right where he wants her.
At the last second, he shows up at the church.
Belle is blinded by relief at this point, excited it can all go ahead. Sam (James Hooton) shows up to give her away and everything is perfect.
‘He gives her a letter from Lisa but fearing it’ll be too emotional, she decides to save it until the vows are done. But when she comes to read it later, it will have a huge impact.
Initially after the vows, everything seems blissful, but it’s not long before Tom’s temper starts to show and the true colours Belle has helped hide rise to the surface.
He gets easily irked by the Dingles’ wedding behaviour. They love a party, especially when it’s their wee Belle getting married, and he is not here for it.
James gave Metro.co.uk an insight into Tom’s thoughts: ‘I think he finds it frustrating, and he has lost control. I think control is what it always comes back to.’
But this is the moment when Belle starts to wake up to the kind of man she’s married as she begins questioning who he really is.
‘I think that does change things a bit, as she can tell he’s getting annoyed about little things,’ Eden shared.
‘I think she is just saying to herself it is fine, it’s fine and then right at the end of the day something happens that just makes her think…have I done the right thing? Is this the right man for me?’
