ITV has withdrawn Emmerdale from this 12 months’s BAFTA TV Awards after studying of the actions of a member of its scriptwriting workforce.
Emmerdale author Martin Fustes admitted in court docket to assaulting his girlfriend, inflicting precise bodily hurt and an offence of intentional suffocation. He was given a two-year suspended jail sentence, 150 hours’ unpaid work, 15 days’ rehabilitation and a 26-session probation service home abuse programme.
“We had been shocked and appalled to be taught in regards to the latest court docket case involving Emmerdale author, Martin Fustes,” stated an ITV spokesperson. “Mr Fustes is a contract author and he has been knowledgeable that he’ll not be writing for Emmerdale. Everybody at ITV and Emmerdale abhors home abuse, which is why we’ve got been highlighting the difficulty in a serious storyline during the last 12 months. The Emmerdale manufacturing workforce weren’t conscious of those fees in opposition to Mr Fustes till we had been alerted over the weekend.”
BAFTA suggested members that anybody who had already voted for the drama would be capable of recast their vote, extending voting till March 17.
Emmerdale screens in Australia on UKTV.
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