The Emmerdale Insider team's favourite villains

The Emmerdale Insider team share their thoughts on who’s the best of all the villains. From Cameron Murray to Meena Jutla, we’ve thought hard about...
Carena Crawford
By Carena Crawford

The Emmerdale Insider team share their thoughts on who’s the best of all the villains. From Cameron Murray to Meena Jutla, we’ve thought hard about who tops the list. Do you agree with our choices? Or are there others who are worse?

Emmerdale villains: Who is your all-time favourite?

Kaggie Hyland, Editor-in-Chief

“Cameron Murray. I hold my hands up, I have no other reason than just really fancying him. And those siege scenes were iconic. The way he unravelled into an accidental villain was interesting…”

Carena Crawford, Managing Editor

“Well, it can only be the one and only Meena Jutla! Mad, bad and totally psychotic, it was so exciting waiting for what she did next. Meena was the perfect soap villain because she could get away with anything – nothing was too crazy. Let’s be honest, some of her kills did us all a favour and really, she could have stuck around and offed a few more!”

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Tamzin Meyer, Assistant Soap Editor

“Graham Foster had a few skeletons in his closet and kept his cards close to his chest, but ultimately I couldn’t help but love him. There was a heart in that villain somewhere, and he didn’t deserve to die such a grisly death!”

Kerry Barrett, Freelance Writer

“Robert Sugden is such a multi-layered character that it’s easy to overlook his dark deeds! Because we’ve seen him grow up and deal with the death of not one but two mothers, we can almost forgive his bad behaviour. Almost. Yes, he left Katie to die and tried to murder Paddy in a grain silo. And of course his feud with brother Andy was destructive. But we were also rooting for him and Aaron to make it work, and we loved him being a dad to little Seb. A great, multi-layered soap villain.”