Olivia Bramley discusses emotional baby plot future emerdale star Olivia Bramley has called for Dawn and Billy Fletcher to unite

again following recent tensions at home Farm Olivia’s character Dawn was left devastated earlier this year as her baby son Ian was

diagnosed with leukemia marking the beginning of a big storyline since Evan’s diagnosis dawn has been pushing Billy away and

recently gave him a hard time for passing on germs to the
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youngster when he went out drinking evans’s family had been trying to maintain a strict social bubble to protect him Don and Billy also found themselves at odds when they both backed different parties in Kim and Rose’s recent home Farm Feud Olivia recently caught up with digital spy at emmerdale’s official nominees photo shoot for the inside soap Awards 2024 we filmed a behindth scenes video with the cast and leads as they posed for their pictures which can be seen in the latest issue of inside soap our video can be
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watched in full at the top of this page speaking about Dawn and Billy’s ongoing problems Olivia told Digital Spy it’s just really sad because obviously they’ve been thrown into this Whirlwind of circumstance that nobody expected with a very unwell child any relationship would be put under a huge amount of strain but Don and Billy have been through so much and they’ve managed to get over a lot of challenges in the past so hopefully they’ll be able to get through this one as well and come together as a team because that’s what
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they really need it’s easier said than done when you’ve got a very sick child Financial stress and the stress of dealing with the whole situation asked about Don taking her frustrations out on Billy Olivia continued I think Don is very frazzled and she’s taking the main load of everything she’s taking the load of looking after this sick child and Billy’s relying on her to do that but she’s not always the best at how she deals with her emotions and how she deals with her stress I think in some
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ways she hasn’t come towards Billy she’s pushed him away she’s a mother who cares so much and she’s just doing her best but as we all know Dawn doesn’t necessarily deal with things in the best way due to the realities of a leukemia diagnosis and the long treatment period Olivia confirmed that there’s still a difficult journey ahead for aan and his family she told us I think it’s really important for us to show the reality of this illness from diagnosis how quickly people go into treatment but also how long that
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treatment can take I’m really proud that we’re showing the story in a slow moving way as it is in life not everything happens in a perfect sequence Dawn’s mother has been in they’ve been dealing with this very sick child there’s been a whole cocktail of emotions but that’s life isn’t it they’ve been thrown a huge amount of things to deal with but I think it’s really really important that we show the reality of the next few stages of this treatment and everything that real parents and families are going
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through after their dramatic year the T tailor of Home Farm have been nominated for the best family prize at the inside soap Awards Olivia said it’s lovely it’s great to be nominated obviously the Tate tailor have had quite a lot of drama and home Farm but we are against the dingles so we’ll see on emmerdale’s nomination for best soap she added I think we’ve had an amazing year at stories we’ve had really challenging stories that have pushed the boundaries