Emmerdale: Matty Barton will be the soap’s first transgender character [ITV]
Emmerdale has announced actor Ash Palmisciano will play the village’s first transgender character, Matty Barton.
He will take on the role of Hannah Barton, who left the ITV soap recently, and scriptwriters have said her absence was to allow for her gender transition.
Show boss Kate Brooks hinted at the troubled sexual history of Matty who is “trying to shake off his past” and make a …
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