Chris Tate
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| Chris Tate | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Portrayed by | Peter Amory | |||||||||||||||||||
| Duration | 1989–2003 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 11 December 1963 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Date of death | 17 September 2003 (aged 39) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Status | Deceased | |||||||||||||||||||
| Occupation | Businessman | |||||||||||||||||||
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Christopher Francis "Chris" Tate was a fictional character on the ITV soap opera Emmerdale. He was played by Peter Amory.
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[edit] Early storylines
Chris first appeared in November 1989 when his father Frank and stepmother Kim bought Home Farm. He was the managing director of his father's haulage firm. He originally had his own flat in Skipdale, but moved into Home Farm to be closer to his love interest Kathy Merrick.
Chris had a tense relationship with his father, partly due to Chris's mother Jean's death from cancer and Frank's subsequent marriage to his secretary Kim, who was only a few years older than Chris. However, Chris did have a close relationship with his younger sister Zoe. When Frank admitted to having helped Jean to die when she was terminally ill, Chris initially accused Frank and Kim of plotting his mother's death. Chris was also unimpressed when Kim persuaded Frank to have an operation to reverse his vasectomy.
[edit] Marriage to Kathy
Chris and Kathy began dating and Chris wrote a song for Kathy to sing at a village concert, 'Just This Side of Love' (which was released as a real single sung by Malandra Burrows). They briefly split up over Chris's gambling habits after he lost his motorbike in a poker match to Alan Turner. They got back together and married on 5th November 1991. The marriage began to break down a year later when Chris found out that Kathy had known that Kim was cheating on Frank with Neil Kincaid. In the row that followed Chris nearly hit Kathy and he later confided in Zoe that he was worried that he had inherited their father's temper. Chris also wanted to have children and Kathy didn't. When Frank started drinking heavily again Chris saw the opportunity to gain control of the business by buying Kim's shares. He mortgaged his and Kathy's cottage to do so, and Kathy only found out about this when Frank confronted her. As it turned out, Zoe joined forces with Frank to vote down Chris. Kathy meanwhile began an affair with Josh Lewis and planned to leave Chris for him.
[edit] The plane crash
On the night of the infamous plane crash of 1993, Chris was spending the evening in Skipdale unaware that Kathy was planning to leave him that night. He was supposed to pick up Kathy and then meet Zoe in the Woolpack, but instead went straight to the pub and was there when it collapsed. Chris was trapped in the wreckage of the wine bar with his family thinking he was still in Skipdale. He was eventually discovered by his wife's lover Josh and was dug out overnight. He suffered spinal injuries and was left paraplegic.
Chris was very bitter about being disabled and realised that Kathy was only staying with him out of duty. He formed a bond with Rachel Hughes, whose brother had died in the plane crash, and she began giving him swimming lessons. The friendship turned into an affair and Kathy found out by seeing them kissing on her third wedding anniversary. When Kathy found out that Rachel was pregnant with Chris's child, she threw Chris out of his wheelchair.
[edit] Joseph
Rachel went into labour prematurely after discovering that her stepfather Joe Sugden had died. She gave birth to a baby boy named Joseph Mark after her stepfather and brother. Chris and Rachel soon fell out with Frank over his interference with Joseph. When Frank planned to evict the Dingles, Rachel organised a protest and Chris joined in to annoy Frank. Chris and Rachel got married on 7th December 1995 with only Jack and Sarah Sugden as witnesses. The marriage lasted less than a year because of Chris's increasingly selfish and money-grabbing ways. Rachel later died leaving Chris with full custody of Joseph.
[edit] Chris vs Kim
When Frank died of a heart attack in 1997 Chris was convinced that Kim had killed him. Kim eventually admitted to Chris that she had watched his father die. When Chris tried to blackmail her into giving him custody of his half-brother James, Kim bashed Chris over the head and tipped him out of his wheelchair, pouring whisky over him before escaping with James by helicopter.
[edit] Kidnapped
In 1999 Chris was held hostage by an employee, Liam, who revealed that he was Frank's illegitimate son and Chris's half-brother. Chris eventually formed a bond with Liam and was upset when he was shot dead by Zoe 'rescuing' Chris. Zoe later had a breakdown which devastated Chris.
[edit] Charity and death
In 2001 Chris married for a third time, to prostitute Charity Dingle. He threw her out after discovering that she had been having an affair with her cousin Cain. Learning that he had a brain tumour and only months to live, Chris began frittering away all his money to ensure Charity would be left with nothing. He said a tearful goodbye to Zoe and Joseph and then arranged a meeting with Charity where he poisoned himself in order to frame his wife for his murder. He died on the floor of Home Farm in the same spot where his father had died previously. His last word was 'whore'.
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