Luke McAllister
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Luke Bernard James McAllister was a fictional character
in the popular soap opera
Emmerdale
played by Noah Huntley
. In his first year at Emmerdale he was simply a nice but naive character, but come 1994, his life in the Dales would take a turn for the worse.
On 9 August 1994, the Dingle family arrived in Emmerdale, and on that very night during a rave, Ben Dingle started a fight with Luke, during which Ben inexplicably died. The rest of the Dingles believed that Ben had been murdered and proceeded to make Luke's life a living hell. It eventually emerged, however, that Ben was suffering from a heart defect. The Dingles refused to believe this however, theorising that the McAllisters had managed to hide evidence, considering that one of the doctors who examined Ben's body was Luke's father.
A family feud between the Dingles and the McAllisters had officially begun.
In early 1995, Luke fell, ironically, for Ben's sister Tina after meeting her at a dance. She revealed she was pregnant, much to the dismay of both families.
They agreed on marriage on 20 July 1995, and just as it seemed that Luke was finally going to have a happy ending, Tina revealed to him and the wedding guests that she did not love him at all, there was no baby, and this was all in aid of revenge for Ben.
Luke was left badly damaged by all this, and Tina made things worse by insulting him during the following week, until 1 August 1995 when he finally snapped, shoved Tina into Dave Glover's
van and took her for an insane ride around Emmerdale. She then jumped from the van whilst it was travelling at high speed, just before Luke lost control of it and crashed into a tree. The van exploded, killing him instantly.
Fictional character
A character is the representation of a person in a narrative work of art . Derived from the ancient Greek word kharaktêr , the earliest use in English, in this sense, dates from the Restoration, although it became widely used after its appearance in Tom Jones in 1749. From this, the sense of...
in the popular 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 Noah Huntley
Noah Huntley
Noah Cornelius Marmaduke Huntley is an English actor, known for his role as Will Curtis in Holby City.-Background:...
. In his first year at Emmerdale he was simply a nice but naive character, but come 1994, his life in the Dales would take a turn for the worse.
On 9 August 1994, the Dingle family arrived in Emmerdale, and on that very night during a rave, Ben Dingle started a fight with Luke, during which Ben inexplicably died. The rest of the Dingles believed that Ben had been murdered and proceeded to make Luke's life a living hell. It eventually emerged, however, that Ben was suffering from a heart defect. The Dingles refused to believe this however, theorising that the McAllisters had managed to hide evidence, considering that one of the doctors who examined Ben's body was Luke's father.
A family feud between the Dingles and the McAllisters had officially begun.
In early 1995, Luke fell, ironically, for Ben's sister Tina after meeting her at a dance. She revealed she was pregnant, much to the dismay of both families.
They agreed on marriage on 20 July 1995, and just as it seemed that Luke was finally going to have a happy ending, Tina revealed to him and the wedding guests that she did not love him at all, there was no baby, and this was all in aid of revenge for Ben.
Luke was left badly damaged by all this, and Tina made things worse by insulting him during the following week, until 1 August 1995 when he finally snapped, shoved Tina into Dave Glover's
Dave Glover
David Edward "Dave" Glover is a fictional character in the British ITV soap opera Emmerdale played by Ian Kelsey.-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.Until 1995, Dave...
van and took her for an insane ride around Emmerdale. She then jumped from the van whilst it was travelling at high speed, just before Luke lost control of it and crashed into a tree. The van exploded, killing him instantly.