Dave Glover
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David Edward "Dave" Glover is a fictional character
in the British ITV soap opera
Emmerdale
played by Ian Kelsey
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Until 1995, Dave Glover didn't really have many major storylines. In 1995 he began an affair with Kim Tate
his boss Frank's wife. Kim and Dave were unaware that Frank knew of their affair. They were caught out when Frank plotted an elaborate revenge. He gave Dave a cottage on the estate and used a private investigator friend, Pete McCarthy, to plant microphones and cameras, connected to his computer monitor. Kim was shocked when Frank walked in on her and Dave in bed together but made it clear that she would not leave. Frank sacked Dave and tried unsuccessfully to persuade Kim to sign away her rights to his fortune. In a counter-attack, Kim moved Dave into Home Farm, but he began to tire of the bickering between his lover and her husband. Then Frank presented the couple with video evidence of their affair. This was too much for Dave, who moved into Annie's cottage, and Kim followed shortly afterwards. By then, Dave's father, Ned, had disowned him, saying he was no son of his. Dave also found it difficult to mix socially with Kim and her friends, feeling that he was out of his depth. Kim later told Frank that the baby she was carrying was not his, and Frank hired a top lawyer to start divorce proceedings. Then, in May, he played his trump card by offering Kim £1 million to leave Dave, move back into Home Farm, put his name on the baby's birth certificate and live with him for the first year of the baby's life.
Keeping the real reason from Dave, Kim told him she was returning to Frank because he was really the father of her baby. When Kim moved back to Home Farm, Frank employed a full-time nurse to look after her. But, given an attic room with bars on the window, Kim began to feel like a prisoner, and decided to move into the nursery flat. When Zoë found out about the £1 million deal, she lost her cool and told Kim what she thought of her, causing a violent argument during which her stepmother slapped her face. Kim reached the end of her tether on discovering that the nurse, Jean Bell, was to be dispensed with as soon as her baby was born and she would have to look after it herself. Kim gave birth to a son, James Francis, on 24 September 1996 after a Caesarean, but she was less concerned with the baby than with her beloved horse, Valentine, which had been taken ill. She left James in hospital to return home and check Valentine's condition - and was heartbroken on finding out that the horse had been put down. Although Dave felt that he should be with Kim, still believing himself to be her baby's father, Frank would not let him near his wife and Dave returned to his ex-lover, Kathy. When Kathy overheard Dave telling Kim to stay out of his life, Kathy proposed and the couple married secretly at Hotten Register Office on 28 November but their time together was to be short. Kim began to warm to baby James and was sure that she could still build a new life with Dave and the baby away from Emmerdale.
In December, Kim made plans to leave and tried to persuade Dave to go with her. Torn between Kim and Kathy, Dave eventually left his sister Linda's wedding reception to meet Kim at Home Farm, where her bags were packed ready to go. Frank returned and had a confrontation outside with Kim and Dave.
Suddenly, they spotted a fire in the nursery. Dave raced to the top of the house, pulled baby James from his cot and managed to pass him out. Unfortunately Dave became trapped and was engulfed in flames as a curtain caught fire. He was rushed to hospital and on Boxing Day 1996, as his family kept a bedside vigil, he died from severe burns and damage to his lungs.
Fictional character
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in the British ITV soap opera
Soap opera
A soap opera, sometimes called "soap" for short, is an ongoing, episodic work of dramatic fiction presented in serial format on radio or as television programming. The name soap opera stems from the original dramatic serials broadcast on radio that had soap manufacturers, such as Procter & Gamble,...
Emmerdale
Emmerdale
Emmerdale, is a long-running British soap opera set in Emmerdale , a fictional village in the Yorkshire Dales. Created by Kevin Laffan, Emmerdale was first broadcast on 16 October 1972...
played by Ian Kelsey
Ian Kelsey
Ian Kelsey is a British television actor.Kelsey was born in York, Yorkshire, England, to parents Julie and John . He also has an older brother named David. He trained at the Joseph Rowntree Theatre York and graduated at the Guildford School of Acting...
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Storylines
Dave arrived in the village with his parents Ned and Jan and younger siblings Linda and Roy in August 1994. He got a job working as a farmhand at Home Farm.Kim Tate
Kimberly Jane 'Kim' Tate is a fictional character on the ITV soap opera Emmerdale. who appeared between 1989 and 1999, She was played by actress Claire King. Kim Tate is seen as one of the most iconic characters in the history of British soap opera, having been dubbed The Soap Superbitch...
his boss Frank's wife. Kim and Dave were unaware that Frank knew of their affair. They were caught out when Frank plotted an elaborate revenge. He gave Dave a cottage on the estate and used a private investigator friend, Pete McCarthy, to plant microphones and cameras, connected to his computer monitor. Kim was shocked when Frank walked in on her and Dave in bed together but made it clear that she would not leave. Frank sacked Dave and tried unsuccessfully to persuade Kim to sign away her rights to his fortune. In a counter-attack, Kim moved Dave into Home Farm, but he began to tire of the bickering between his lover and her husband. Then Frank presented the couple with video evidence of their affair. This was too much for Dave, who moved into Annie's cottage, and Kim followed shortly afterwards. By then, Dave's father, Ned, had disowned him, saying he was no son of his. Dave also found it difficult to mix socially with Kim and her friends, feeling that he was out of his depth. Kim later told Frank that the baby she was carrying was not his, and Frank hired a top lawyer to start divorce proceedings. Then, in May, he played his trump card by offering Kim £1 million to leave Dave, move back into Home Farm, put his name on the baby's birth certificate and live with him for the first year of the baby's life.
In December, Kim made plans to leave and tried to persuade Dave to go with her. Torn between Kim and Kathy, Dave eventually left his sister Linda's wedding reception to meet Kim at Home Farm, where her bags were packed ready to go. Frank returned and had a confrontation outside with Kim and Dave.
Suddenly, they spotted a fire in the nursery. Dave raced to the top of the house, pulled baby James from his cot and managed to pass him out. Unfortunately Dave became trapped and was engulfed in flames as a curtain caught fire. He was rushed to hospital and on Boxing Day 1996, as his family kept a bedside vigil, he died from severe burns and damage to his lungs.