Kim and Will are much better together, Emmerdale shouldn’t have split them up – here’s why
Their romance took ages to get going and now it’s over too fast!
Kim and Will are well and truly over! Their slow-burn romance took a long time to get started and it’s fallen apart in a matter of days, and we’ve got to be honest, we’re disappointed.
The Taylor-Tates (or would it be Tate-Taylors? We can’t imagine Kim would want second billing!) were hardly love’s young dream. They’d both been round the block a few times separately and together when they finally tied the knot.
But that’s why we liked them – they knew each other’s flaws and they didn’t care. In fact, we suspect the flaws were one of the things that attracted them to one another.
And now we’re facing weeks of revenge and plotting as they try to out-do each other and we’re not looking forward to it.
Here’s why we think the couple are much better together!
Emmerdale: Kim and Will know each other’s secrets
Between them, Will and Kim have a LOT of secrets. But it seems they’ve been totally honest with one another (until Rose arrived, that is!). When Caleb turned up trying to fleece Kim of her worldly goods, it became obvious that Will knew all about Kim’s – ahem – toxic marriage to Frank and the way he died (for those of you too young to remember, he died at Kim’s feet as she watched).
And Kim, of course, knows all about what happened to DI Malone – at Dawn’s hands – and how his body was buried in the graveyard, until she made it go away.
They’ve got each other’s backs
When Kim’s son Jamie was trying to poison his mother, Will and Kim weren’t actually together. In fact, it was Will who Jamie tried to frame for drugging his mum. But of course Kim found out – of course she did. And she set about taking the ultimate revenge.
With a bit of help from former lover Will, she set things up to look like she had died and Will had been arrested for her murder. Jamie was horrified, but not as horrified as he was when Kim strolled back into Home Farm and kicked him out!
They’re a formidable team
With both Will and Kim having a very flexible approach to morals and what’s right, they made an intimidating team. Never more so, in fact, when Dawn’s ex Alex – dad to both Clemmie and Lucas – showed up in the village.
Alex had showed up wanting access to the kids. Or actually, what he wanted was to get his grubby mitts on the money Dawn had inherited from Harriet Finch and he was using the kids as leverage.
Kim promised Dawn that she’d sort it, and she did! She and Will kidnapped Alex and held him hostage in the stables where they offered him cash to go away. Alex refused and the newly weds told him their offer would drop in value every day. So cold!
Of course the Home Farm pair came out on top in the end, with Alex scarpering and Dawn and Billy adopting Clemmie.
Kim and Will need to reunite in Emmerdale
It was a disaster as soon as this storyline got going – there was only one way it could end really. And while we love Queen Kim and her bad ways, this was not the way to bring her back. Emmerdale should have teamed them up and made them Queen and King of the Dales. What a missed opportunity!
Things haven’t always been plaining for Will and Kim in Emmerdale. Even when they first got together it was following a scheme to take revenge on Kim’s son, Jamie, who had been poisoning her.
He almost cheated with Bernice Blackstock, but chose Ms Tate after she proved her devotion to him in a rather unconventional way. They got engaged, but their wedding was then rocked by Will’s ex, Harriet, confessing her love for him right before the big day. She then died on their wedding day in a storm that also claimed the life of Liv Flaherty. Will blamed Kim and the newly weds had a less-than joyful start to their marriage.
The writing should have been on the wall, perhaps.
Fast forward two years and another of Will’s exes, Rose Jackson, has torn them apart again. Here’s a look at the timeline of the Tate-Taylor union.
The romantic life of Kim and Will in Emmerdale
Summer 2021
Will helps Kim take revenge on Jamie. The couple then rekindle their romance after a false start.
Winter 2021
Will gives Kim an ultimatum to ditch her vindictive side if she wants to be with him. Will flirts with Bernice
Christmas Day 2021
Will proposes to Kim (after she gets rid of Malone’s body!)
September 2022
Will’s ex Harriet admits she still has feelings for him.
October 2022
The couple finally tie the knot!
April 2024
Rose Jackson, Will ex, arrives and moves in – she’s here to split them up!
June 2024
Rose is revealed to be working with Ruby Fox-Miligan to get revenge on Kim.
July 2024
Rose successfully ousts Kim from Home Farm and seduces Will. He keeps quiet and Rose is eventually run out of town.
September 2024
After weeks of being blackmailed over his sex secret, Will finally discovers Kim is behind his torment and divorce proceedings begin.
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