As Dr Liam plans to pop the question to Chas Dingle, here is her disastrous love history!

Chas Dingle in Emmerdale – as Ella recently pointed out – has got a lot of experience when it comes to love and marriage.

She’s been married, divorced, engaged, and everything in between. In fact, she’s notched up three husbands, one (jilted) fiance, a couple of steamy affairs and an ill-fated romance in her time in the village.

Now she seems happily loved up with Dr Liam, and he – it turns out – is hatching a plan to make an honest woman of her! That’s right. The much-married medic is keen to add to his own tally of spouses, and ask Chas to be his wife!

Dramatic night out!

As it turns out the proposal very much does not go to plan. First Liam doesn’t win the raffle he’d hoped to fix in his favour so the prize of a night out in a limo goes to Kerry instead. He is forced to book another fancy car for the evening – except that means the village divides into men and women and he joins the fellas in their limo while Chas hangs out with the ladies!

And there’s worse to come as both cars end up leaving the road, with one crashing into an icy lake!

So while we wait to find out if anyone survives the dramatic frozen plunge, we thought we’d take a look back at Chas’s relationship history.

Just how many weddings has she had? Here’s the lowdown.

Chas Dingle’s first love – Gordon Livesy

Chas married young, to Gordon, the father of her son Aaron. They were divorced long before Chas arrived in Emmerdale. Though they briefly rekindled their romance, Chas was horrified when Aaron revealed his father had sexually abused him as a child. Gordon was found guilty when Aaron bravely reported his abuse, but took his own life in prison.

Carl King – jilted by Chas!

Carl King and Chas were together for aaaaages, off and on. They got engaged but Carl’s roving eye meant he was having a secret affair with Edna Birch’s granddaughter, Eve.

When Chas found out, she was – not surprisingly – furious. But instead of calling off the wedding, sneaky Ms Dingle decided to hit her cheating fiance where it hurt – in his wallet!

She pocketed the money he was giving her to pay for a lavish do, and then jilted him at the altar, adding humiliation to her revenge, too.

Later, Carl tried to rape Chas and she whacked him over the head and thought she’d killed him. She even served time for his murder. But it turned out she hadn’t struck the deadly blow – that was her other lover, Cameron Murray…

Chas Dingle and her steamy love affair with Cameron Murray in Emmerdale

Chas fell for Cameron, who was in a relationship with her niece Debbie at the time. He played the two women off against one another and that wasn’t the worst of his crimes, by a long way. Because Cameron turned out to be one the village’s most deadly killers!

He murdered Gennie Walker – Chas’s half-sister -as well as finishing off Carl King and farmhand Alex Moss. And he held the drinkers at the Woolpack hostage at gunpoint. What a guy!

Dan Spencer – Emmerdale’s quickest marriage?

Perhaps on the hunt for a good man after a string of disasters, Chas got together with Dan Spencer. They were always an odd pairing with neither of them seeming to be that excited about their relationship. But they got engaged and planned to wed on the same day as Katie Sugden and Declan Macey in 2012 – Emmerdale’s 40th anniversary!

Despite marrying Dan, Chas was being blackmailed by Carl who knew about her night with Cameron. He threatened to expose her secrets unless she ran off with him. Chas agreed, though she didn’t mean it.

Meanwhile, she desperately tried to convince Dan they should leave Emmerdale together. Dan thought she was trying to leave him – on their wedding day! While Carl saw through her lie and tried to rape her.

Chas’s new marriage barely lasted an hour. She ended up leaving poor Dan for Cameron. And we know how well that turned out.

James Barton came with a lot of baggage when he got with Chas Dingle in Emmerdale!

A romance with James Barton followed for Chas but he came with a LOT of baggage in the shape of his three grown-up sons (four if you count Adam Barton who he later discovered was his son, too). And let’s not forget his ex-wife Emma Barton who turned out to be a total disaster!

When Emma arrived in the village, she and James slept together. When Chas found out, she finished things with James – getting out just in the nick of time. Because Emma went on to hold James hostage, she pushed him off the Hotton bypass footbridge, killing him, shot son Finn and almost murdered Moira Dingle. For once, Chas got out before disaster struck!

Paddy and Chas Dingle in Emmerdale and their Christmas wedding

When Chas and Paddy rekindled their romance from several years before it seemed they were meant to be. Their relationship stayed strong even when Chas unexpectedly found she was pregnant – and when they discovered their unborn baby had a condition that meant she wasn’t going to survive for long after birth.

Chas and Paddy supported one another as she gave birth to little Grace, and the baby died in their arms just 29 minutes after she was born.

They were delighted when Chas got pregnant again and gave birth to healthy Eve, and for a while things were great.

Of course, things never stay calm for long in the Dingle family and Paddy decided to plan a surprise wedding for Chas! Despite a few hiccups along the way, the pair did tie the knot at Christmas in 2020.

But it wasn’t happy ever after for the new Mr and Mrs Dingle.

Al Chapman – disaster after disaster!

Chas began a steamy affair with horrible Al Chapman, horrifying fans! She neglected her family and even missed being with her mum Faith when she died because she was with Al. It wasn’t good!

Al was killed in the storm back in 2022, and Chas was devastated. But Paddy already knew about the affair. He kicked Chas out and their marriage was over. Not surprisingly!

Will Chas’s relationship with Liam go the distance? We’ll have to wait and see!

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