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Metro
15 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Metro
Emmerdale's Ned Porteous confirms 'more to come' for dastardly villain Joe Tate
To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video He may have only returned to the Emmerdale village in December, but already Joe Tate (Ned Porteous) has caused more trouble than half of the village combined. Since his unexpected arrival on Christmas Eve, Joe has spiked his own brother, stolen a kidney from his uncle and embarked on an affair with a married woman. Not to mention, his actions unintentionally led to the death of three villagers when their limo crashed into an icy lake. However, the drama surrounding Joe is far from over, as actor Ned Porteous told me at the British Soap Awards this weekend. 'There's always more to come. It really doesn't stop,' he teased. 'I don't know how they do it at the Emmerdale story creation team. There's never a dull moment. It doesn't matter which character you're following in the show, there's always something that takes the biscuit and ends up making you go, 'How are they going to get through that?' 'And that's a really fun thing for us actors to do because you have this endlessly long story arc and you don't know what's going to happen in your story and with your character. With so many people on the show all the time it's like a hotpot of weird things going on, which is great.' More Trending While Joe might not be the most popular man in the village – with countless locals having been in the frame after he was pushed out of a window last month – it's all smiles and friendship off-screen, according to Ned. 'I really, really enjoy it,' he enthused. 'Hands down the friendliest place I've ever worked. The people are nice, it's fun work, creatively. 'It's kind of an actor's dream these days to know what you're doing in about a month's time, which is quite a bizarre thing. View More » 'Mainly it's that people are kind. I'm not sh****** on anyone else I've ever worked with, but it's just a really nice place to go to work every day, and that's a really privileged position for anyone to be in, to get to wake up and enjoy going in to work.' MORE: TV stars deliver iconic red carpet looks at the British Soap Awards 2025 MORE: Dawn 'set to betray' another Emmerdale villager for Joe Tate MORE: Joe Tate makes unexpected move as future in Emmerdale is confirmed
Yahoo
25-05-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
To The Point: Michigan's open Senate seat
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — This week on 'To The Point,' with the primary well over a year away, the race for the open Senate seat in Michigan is already heating up. This week, we will introduce you to Democratic candidate Representative Joe Tate, who says, 'I think it really comes down to Michiganders and who is going to be able to connect with them? Who is going to be able to listen to them? Listen to what they're optimistic about, also what their challenges are.' And former Republican Congressman Mike Rogers. 'That's why you want to send, I think, someone back to the United States Senate that understands that from stem to stern. They understand getting business here and know what that means. They understand we have to improve our education system. Understand how we have to get people into the skilled trades,' Rogers said. In the weeks to come, more candidates who have declared for the Senate and governor race as we prepare for the 2026 election. All that and more on this 'To The Point' episode for the weekend of May 24. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
12-05-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Former state House Speaker Joe Tate of Detroit jumps into US Senate race
Former Michigan House Speaker Joe Tate of Detroit — who has longstanding ties to the city and played football for Michigan State University and in the NFL before becoming a Marine and entering politics — is running as a Democrat for U.S. Senate. Tate's campaign on May 12 confirmed his run for the seat being vacated by Democratic Sen. Gary Peters, who is stepping down after his second six-year term. The Free Press had earlier reported that Tate, who is in his fourth two-year term in the state House, was considering entering the race. 'Washington has broken faith with us,' Tate said in a video released with his announcement. 'Instead of creating opportunity for all, (President) Donald Trump and the Republicans are cutting taxes for the wealthy and they're betraying our senior citizens, our children and my fellow veterans to do it." 'I'm running for U.S. Senate to lay a foundation for the next generation of Michiganders − one strong enough to protect the promise Michigan holds for every family,' Tate said in the video. Tate enters an already crowded field of experienced candidates for the Democratic nomination to succeed Peters. U.S. Rep. Haley Stevens, state Sen. Mallory McMorrow of Royal Oak and former Wayne County health director Abdul El-Sayed, who ran for governor in 2018, have announced runs. Tate's entry, however, gives the race and Detroit, the state's largest city and one of the largest majority minority big cities in the country, its first Black candidate, and one who became the first and only Black state House speaker in Michigan's history. As such, he can also claim a significant role in having led the first Democratic House majority in more than a decade and helping to pass a repeal of the state's restrictive abortion law and union restrictions, as well as approving education funding increases and gun control measures. "We delivered for the people who sent us there," Tate said. But Tate also led the chamber as it became a roadblock during lame duck, failing to garner enough attendance or votes to pass a handful of Democratic priorities. Some House Democrats publicly criticized his leadership in the final days of their majority. The best-known Republican candidate in the Senate race is former U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers of White Lake, who ran a close but losing campaign last year to former U.S. Rep. Elissa Slotkin, D-Holly, who went on to replace Democratic former U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow. No Republican has won a U.S. Senate seat in Michigan since Spencer Abraham in 1994. Several other Republicans, including U.S. Rep. Bill Huizenga of Holland Township and former GOP gubernatorial nominee Tudor Dixon, are looking at the race. Tate, who is 44, would be Michigan's first Black U.S. senator if elected. Currently, there are five Black members of the U.S. Senate. The former state House speaker, who lost the position as Republicans reclaimed majority control of the chamber in last year's elections, is the son of a Detroit public school teacher and a Detroit firefighter who died after an accident responding to a fire when Tate was a baby. He received a scholarship to play at MSU, where he was an offensive lineman and a two-time Academic All-Big Ten selection. In the NFL, he played on practice squads in Jacksonville, Atlanta and St. Louis. Ultimately, he joined the Marines as an officer and was deployed twice to Afghanistan on combat tours. He later earned a master's in business administration and a master's in environmental policy and planning from the University of Michigan and worked as a program manager for the Detroit Economic Growth Corp. before winning a seat in the state legislature in 2018. Contact Todd Spangler: tspangler@ Follow him on X @tsspangler. This article originally appeared on Detroit Free Press: Former state House Speaker Joe Tate jumps into US Senate race
Yahoo
12-05-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Former Michigan House Speaker seeks open spot in U.S. Senate
Michigan state House Speaker Joe Tate (D-Detroit) speaks to media after House republicans leave the House floor in protest to inaction on labor and road funding bills on Dec. 13, 2024. | Photo: Anna Liz Nichols In the latest announcement in the race to succeed Sen. Gary Peters (D-Bloomfield Township) as Michigan's next U.S. Senator, former Michigan House Speaker Joe Tate has joined the ever-growing field of candidates. Tate, a Detroit Democrat who currently serves as a state representative for Michigan's 9th House district, made his announcement on Sunday, which was first reported by Bloomberg. 'I'm running for Senate to lay a foundation for the next generation of Michiganders, one strong enough to protect the promise Michigan holds for every family,' Tate said in a video posted to social media on Monday. SUBSCRIBE: GET THE MORNING HEADLINES DELIVERED TO YOUR INBOX Tate, a former NFL player who served two combat tours in Afghanistan as a U.S. Marine Corps officer, was Michigan's first Black speaker of the House, leading the chamber during Democrat's trifecta in Lansing from 2023 through the end of 2024. Under the leadership of Tate and Senate Majority Leader Winnie Brinks (D-Grand Rapids), Democrats forged ahead on decades of pent-up policy priorities, repealing the state's right to work laws, retirement tax and its 1931 abortion ban. Democrats also expanded the 1976 Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act to add protections against discrimination based on gender identity or sexual orientation, set a 100% clean energy standard for 2040 and passed sweeping gun reforms, including universal background checks, safe storage requirements and a series of policies allowing for extreme risk protection orders, also known as red flag laws. However, Tate's term as speaker ended on a sour note, as House Republicans walked off the floor, refusing to return unless Tate placed policies on road funding and policies looking to water down changes to the state's minimum wage and sick leave laws on the agenda. While Democrats, who held a 56-54 majority, were able to continue holding votes, the chamber failed to reach a quorum for two days in a row, bringing the House to a sputtering halt. Unable to pass legislation, several bills including proposed bans on ghost guns and bump stocks, a host of bills to address racial disparities in maternal health and plans to subject the Legislature and the Governor to the state's Freedom of Information Act, were left dead in the water. Tate has faced further criticism from both sides of the aisle, as nine bills passed by the Michigan Senate sit in limbo, after the House did not present them to the governor for her signature prior to the new Legislative session. Current House Speaker Matt Hall (R-Richland Township) has blamed Tate for failing to present the bills, with the impasse resulting in legal action from Brinks and the Senate. Tate joins a Democratic field that already includes U.S. Rep. Haley Stevens (D-Birmingham), State Sen. Mallory McMorrow (D-Royal Oak) and former Wayne County Health Director Abdul El-Sayed. On the Republican side, former U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers (R-White Lake) launched another Senate bid, after an unsuccessful campaign in 2024, which he lost to now-U.S. Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-Holly) by just over 19,000 votes.
The Sun
12-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Sun
Emmerdale finally reveals who pushed Joe Tate after his horror fall – but did you guess right?
EMMERDALE has seemingly confirmed the identity of who pushed Joe Tate out of the Home Farm window. Speculation has been rife as to who could have been the reason the suave businessman was hauled from a bedroom window. 5 5 Many Dales residents have seen themselves in the frame but one made a stunning confession at the end of the latest episode. Before that, it seemed that the heat was firmly on Billy Fletcher as he was hauled in for questioning by the cops. His previous violent past, as well as his rage at discovering the affair, were determined as being his primary factors in wanting to push and kill Joe. After bungling his way through a police interview, the cops decided to arrest and charge Billy with the crime. Banging him up in a holding cell, the cops were then soon forced to make a quick U-turn owing to a "new development". It later transpired that Dawn had given the cops an alibi for Billy by telling them they were in bed together. She told them that Billy had chosen to keep this a secret in order to not look foolish for having bedded his wife so fresh off the back of her ongoing affair. Although the cops never told Billy of this, they let him go and cited Dawn's alibi as credible. Speaking to one another at Home Farm, Billy questioned why Dawn would want to protect him - especially given that she cannot be 100% sure that he was the pusher. With Dawn confessing to Billy that Clemmie had been out of sorts, it prompts him to suspect that his daughter could be invovled. Emmerdale's Joe Tate's fate revealed after horror window fall - as list of suspects for whodunnit plot continues to mount Demanding to get to the bottom of this, he races up the stairs at Home Farm to speak to Clemmie but is soon interrupted by Dawn. Dawn shouted at him: "Billy, stop it. Stop... Billy, come here!" She continued: "She can't tell you anything, OK? "It wasn't her." Dawn then added: "I pushed him. It was me!" But did you suspect that it was Dawn? Or are there more twists still to come? Soap's biggest whodunnits EastEnders - Who shot Phil Mitchell? The "Who Shot Phil?" storyline was a whodunit mystery that captured the attention of viewers and the media. The episode revealing the culprit was watched by 23 million viewers. Lisa Shaw, Phil Mitchell's former girlfriend and the mother of his child Louise, was revealed as the killer as Phil slept with Lisa's best friend. Phil forgave Lisa, and they agreed to keep the truth a secret. Coronation Street - Who killed Tina McIntyre ? The popular actress Michelle Keegan played Tina McIntyre for several years on the Cobbles, but she ended up being killed by Rob Donovan in a tragic turn of events back in 2014 when he chased her onto the balcony of the Builder's Yard. When she tried to leave, he pushed her and she fell off the roof, with Rob convinced he killed her. With Tina still alive, he attacked her with an iron bar but she survived that attack and was rushed to hospital as doctors tried to save her. Emmerdale - Who pushed Emma Barton? Emma was then pushed off a viaduct by Moira after she talked ill of her dead daughter Holly, who died of an overdose in October 2017. Although Moira was responsible for Emma's death, her son, Adam Barton, took the fall for the murder since he was already a prime suspect and he didn't want Isaac to grow up motherless. Hollyoaks - Glove Hand Killer The Gloved Hand Killer was a mystery serial killer, who claimed the lives of 7 characters between January and October 2015, all by injecting them with potassium chloride. The Gloved Hand Killer's targets were all people who had done wrong in some shape or form. There were 6 suspects for who the Gloved Hand Killer was, and the killer's identity was revealed in October 2015. It was revealed to be doctor Lindsey Butterfield who had been killing people at the hospital. 5 5
