Chas Dingle
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| Emmerdale character | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Portrayed by | Lucy Pargeter | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Duration | 2002– | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| First appearance | 16 October 2002 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Introduced by |
Steve Frost (2002) Kathleen Beedles (2005) |
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| Spin-off appearances |
Emmerdale: The Dingles, For Richer For Poorer (2010) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Classification | Present; regular | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Other names | Chas Livesy Chas Spencer |
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| Occupation | Pub landlady (2011–) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Home | The Woolpack | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Family | Dingle |
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| Father | Shadrach Dingle |
| Mother | Faith Dingle |
| Half-brothers | Cain Dingle |
| Half-sisters | Genesis Walker |
| Husband |
Gordon Livesy (backstory) Dan Spencer (2012–2013) |
| Sons | Aaron Dingle |
| Grandfathers | Jedediah Dingle |
| Grandmothers | Peg Dingle |
| Uncles |
Zak Dingle Albert Dingle Caleb Dingle Ezra Dingle Zebediah Dingle |
| Nephews | Kyle Wyatt |
| Nieces |
Debbie Dingle Molly Sharma |
| First cousins | Nathan Dingle Ben Dingle Butch Dingle Sam Dingle Tina Dingle Belle Dingle Mandy Dingle Lilith Dingle Delilah Dingle Marlon Dingle Eli Dingle |
| Other relatives |
Charity Dingle Noah Dingle Moses Dingle April Windsor Leo Goskirk |
Chastity "Chas" Dingle (also Spencer) is a fictional character from the British soap opera Emmerdale, played by Lucy Pargeter. She made her first appearance during the episode broadcast on 16 October 2002. Chas returned on 21 September 2003. Chas was absent for six months in 2005, when Pargeter took maternity leave. She left temporarily in June 2005, and returned full-time from 13 December 2005. In 2013, Pargeter announced that she would be taking a short break from the show in order to appear in I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!. Pargeter was briefly recast for one episode on 20 December 2016 to provide an alternative physical appearance to the character through the eyes of dementia patient Ashley Thomas (John Middleton). Chas will depart temporarily once again in April 2017 when Pargeter takes her second maternity leave, and is expected to return later this year or early next year.
Chas first appears when she arrives in Emmerdale dressed as a nun for her cousin Marlon's (Mark Charnock) stag night. She is hired by her father, Shadrach Dingle (Andy Devine), and ends the evening locked in the back of a van with Ashley Thomas (John Middleton). She moves in with the Dingles and gets a job as barmaid at The Woolpack. Chas has a son, Aaron Livesy (Danny Webb), with her ex-husband Gordon (Gerard Fletcher), whom she allowed custody. Aaron hated his mother, feeling that she had abandoned him. Aaron rejected Chas' attempts to make amends for this and after he deliberately told her about Carl and Delilah's fling, she ceased contact in order for Gordon, Aaron and his new wife, Sandra, to become a proper family.
Chas makes friends with Carl King (Tom Lister) shortly after he and his family move into Holdgate Farm. They share a bond due to the fact that they are both parental failures and begin dating. The attraction strengthens into love but Carl's family disapprove and send him away after Paul Marsden (Matthew Booth) dies but he later returns and they get together. Chas' relationship with Carl was never stable, and the couple go through numerous break-ups and reconciliations. Despite Chloe Atkinson's (Amy Nuttall) poison pen letter scheme, Tom and Rosemary's blackmail, Carl's guilt over murdering his father and marriage to Chas's former friend, Lexi Nicholls (Sally Oliver), the relationship survives but finally deteriorates upon Chas discovering Carl was sleeping with Eve Jenson (Suzanne Shaw). Heartbroken, she follows her second cousin Charity's (Emma Atkins) advice to persuade him to marry her and falsely claims to be pregnant. However, she steals the money meant for the wedding and jilts him at the altar, telling him that he should be grateful that she lied about expecting his child.
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