Best On-Screen Partnership. The character was selected as one of the "top 100 British soap characters" by industry experts for a poll to be run by What's on TV, with readers able to vote for their favourite character to discover "Who is Soap's greatest Legend?" Kris Green of Digital Spy called Charity "one of the soap's most controversial characters." Steve Hendry of the Sunday Mail branded the Charity, Chris and Zoe storyline as "one of soapland's more bizarre love triangles." A writer for Virgin Media named Cain and Charity one of "Soaps' sexiest couples." Laura Morgan of All About Soap said that viewers should not count on Charity settling into married life with Jai, especially with Cain hanging around "like a bad smell". A Sunday Mail reporter dubbed Charity "one of the great British soap villains". Charity's sentencing in January 2015 was named one of "the best bits of January" in the Inside Soap Yearbook 2016. In August 2017, Atkins was longlisted for Best Bad Girl at the Inside Soap Awards. Despite making the viewer-voted shortlist, Atkins did not win the award. For her portrayal of Charity, Atkins was nominated for Best Soap Actor (Female) at the 2018 Digital Spy Reader Awards; she came in second place with 17.2% of the toal vote. The storyline "Charity fights for justice against DI Bails" was also nominated at the awards under the "Best Soap Storyline" category; it came in third place with 14% of the total vote. Charity's pairing with Vanessa was also nominated for "Best Soap Couple"; they came in fourth place with 9.4% of the total vote. In 2019, Atkins received a National Television Awards nomination in the Serial Drama Performance category for her portrayal of Charity. See also List of Emmerdale characters (2000) List of LGBT characters in soap operas List of soap opera villains References External links Charity Dingle at itv.com Emmerdale characters Television characters introduced in 2000 Female characters in television Fictional female businesspeople Fictional career criminals Fictional con artists Fictional factory workers Fictional prostitutes Fictional bisexual females Fictional criminals in soap operas Fictional characters involved in incest Fictional teenage parents Female villains Fictional victims of sexual assault Fictional bartenders Fictional prisoners and detainees Fictional LGBT characters in television LGBT villains Fictional victims of child sexual abuse