Emmerdale star Mark Charnock hits out at ‘sickening imposter’ using pictures of his late colleagues

THE iconic Emmerdale star Mark Charnock has taken to social media to blast another imposter pretending to be him.

The Marlon Dingle actor – who has been on the ITV soap for 27 years – pleaded with fans to report and block the user after they used photos of his late colleagues to trick people into thinking it was him.

Taking to his own Instagram page, Mark wrote: “This person, (@markcharnockofficial0) whilst pretending to be me has sickeningly used my photo of three colleagues of mine who have sadly passed away to authenticate his or her username.

“It disgusts me and I hope you feel the same. Please block and report this person.”

The actor posted a screenshot of the fake account.

Mark’s followers rushed to comment to share their “disgust” over the latest catfish.

One said: “It is sick they are using your late colleagues to promote this fake account!” 

Another wrote: “How rude and intrusive. Reported and blocked.”

A third penned: “Some awful people about.”

But this isn’t the first time Mark has shared a fake profile to his followers.

He posted on Instagram in March about another that had been made of him.

It also had a photo of him with the same bio as the one Mark has on his official account: “Some kind of lanky idiot.”

The real Mark Charnock wrote: “Sigh… this is someone pretending to be me. It’s exhausting. Why do people do this? It’s SO weird.”

He then asked fans to join him in reporting the fake account: “Please report and unfollow. Thank you. X”

The person behind the fake account was messaging and requesting to follow Emmerdale fans, while pretending to be Mark.

Former Emmerdale actor and Aaron Dingle star, Danny Miller then joked: “So that wasn’t you?”

Mark replied: “Don’t make me come over there!!!”

Emmerdale airs on weekdays at 7.30pm on ITV1 and ITVX.