ITV cuts ties with 'Emmerdale' Writer Martin Fustes after he admitted to domestic abuse charges. The soap has also been withdrawn from Bafta voting.

Emmerdale has withdrawn its entry for the Bafta Best Soap award after one of its writers - Martin Fustes - was convicted of domestic abuse. The ITV soap - which has been airing since 1972 - pulled out of the prestigious category following revelations about scriptwriter Fustes,

ITV has announced that it has withdrawn Emmerdale from the BAFTA TV Awards ' soap category this year, after a writer on the soap admitted to charges of attacking his girlfriend. The writer, Martin Fustes, has writing credits for 758 episodes of Emmerdale, and has himself written over 170 episodes.

Long-running British daytime drama “Emmerdale” will no longer be competing in the soap category at the upcoming BAFTA TV Awards after one of its former writers admitted to assaulting his partner. ITV,

Emmerdale will no longer feature in the soap category at the upcoming BAFTA TV Awards after one of its former writers admitted to assaulting and strangling his partner

Martin Fustes had written an episode as part of Belle King's domestic abuse storyline.

British network ITV has pulled UK sudser Emmerdale from consideration for Best Soap at the 2025 BAFTA TV Awards. The decision was announced to voters earlier today, Variety reports, in a message in which ITV said came “in consideration of recent news involving a member of the scriptwriting team.