Emmerdale Belle Dingle star's real-life boyfriend and sister's heartbreaking diagnosis

As Belle Dingle's home maltreatment ordeal is acceptable to get an explosive conclusion, the Mirror takes a look astatine Emmerdale histrion Eden Taylor-Draper's beingness distant from screens

Belle Dingle has endured months of maltreatment astatine the hands of her hubby - but thankfully, histrion Eden Taylor-Draper is acold happier successful love.

Fans of Emmerdale person watched Belle isolate herself from her loved ones, including her beloved favored canine Piper, implicit the past fewer weeks and ITV viewers person been pleading with bosses to extremity her suffering. Tonight, an hour-long peculiar volition item the voices of home maltreatment survivors arsenic the long-running storyline comes to an end.

But distant from the play of the dales, histrion Eden lives a precise antithetic life, filled with question and fun. She has, however, had to woody with a devastating household heartache down the scenes. Here, the Mirror takes a look...

Little sister's crab diagnosis

Much similar the Dingle clan, Selby-born Eden is portion of a precise close-knit family, and erstwhile small sister Francesca was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia, she was determination for her each measurement of the way. Francesca, affectionately nicknamed Chess by loved ones, was diagnosed with this uncommon humor crab benignant six years ago.

Devoted sister Eden took clip distant from acceptable to beryllium by her side. Speaking with the Mirror successful 2020, Eden shared: "We've got specified a beardown family. When our mum puts her caput to something, she's ever going to bash it. She said, 'You are getting amended and that's it. We're going to get done it'."

Eden, who went connected to go an ambassador for the Teenage Cancer Trust, was determination for Chess arsenic she underwent monthly treatments and took regular chemo pills, and says the ordeal made their enslaved 'much stronger'. She continued: "Chessie had her furniture and I had a small furniture adjacent to her. Mornings would beryllium a snuggle, cupful of tea, and re-runs of Come Dine with Me. I tried to support Chess arsenic cosy arsenic possible. We'd ever accidental emotion you earlier bed, and that everything would beryllium okay."

Long-term boyfriend

Eden has been loved up with her fellow Ed Lewis since 2016, and it's believed the brace archetypal met astatine Harrogate Grammar School successful North Yorkshire. The young mates stock a keen emotion of travel, and volition often stock Instagram snaps from far-flung locations, including a festive travel to the Christmas markets of Vienna successful Austria.

Emmerdale 'sister'

Eden has antecedently opened up astir her closeness to Emma Atkins, who plays Charity Dingle successful Emmerdale, describing the 49-year-old soap stalwart arsenic 'big sister'. She antecedently told the Mirror: "There's nary property gap! I consciousness similar we're conscionable the aforesaid age. We're sisters. We bent retired each the time!"

• Emmerdale airs weeknights astatine 7:30pm connected ITV1 and ITVX, with an hour-long occurrence connected Thursdays.