British soap Emmerdale’s Kris Mochrie and his on-screen brother Max Parker will marry each other on August 7. In 2009, Mochrie was sentenced to two years in prison for supplying Date Rape Drug and perverting the course of justice.

Max Parker best known for his roles in BBC’s Casualty, Peacock’s Vampire Academy, Netflix’s Blood, Sex & Royalty and ITV’s soap Emmerdale, has been in a relationship with Emmerdale co-star Kris Morchie since 2020. They announced their engagement in January 2022 and are set to marry each other in August 2025. Morchie is known for portraying the roles of Lee Posner in the ITV soap opera Emmerdale, Jez in the BBC drama series Ordinary Lies, and Ali Gordon in the Channel 4 soap opera Brookside.

In 2008, Morchie was accused of spiking the drink belonging to Daniel Latimer – a star of Channel Four’s Shipwrecked – with GHB – a class C drug. When Latimer, 24, of Liverpool – a guest DJ at the Sugar Mill nightclub in Hull, East Yorks – collapsed and nearly died last September, Mochrie lied to police. He said two female students had done it. He identified one of them as 21-year-old Chloe Leach, who a couple of hours later collapsed and died in the same club. But Hull Crown Court heard that Chloe had nothing to do with the case – she died of natural causes. Mochrie admitted lying and pleaded guilty to supplying GHB at Hull Crown Court in 2010. Sentencing, Judge Jeremy Richardson QC, said, ‘At the same time a young girl tragically became ill and subsequently died. She had absolutely nothing to do with drugs. But there was a police investigation in due course and you effectively pointed the finger of responsibility for drug pedalling at two young girls.’

In 2013, Actor told Liverpool Echo, “The judge began his summing up by saying what an enterprising young man I was and how people obviously loved working with me,” he says. “I thought it was going OK and then he said ‘but …’ and my stomach turned over. “He sentenced me and said ‘send him below’. I’ll never forget that; those exact words. “I looked over at my mum and she couldn’t look at me. And I felt so sorry because she’s the loveliest woman in the world and I knew how she’d be feeling. “I didn’t cry, I was in total shock, and as I walked down the stairs I heard them say ‘Mochrie, two years’. “They led me into this room and it was like everything just stopped. I sat there slumped in the chair and just thought about my family and how I’d let everyone down.”

He has always maintained that the drugs weren’t his, but admits he did panic and lie when questioned. “I hold my hands up to that,” he says. “But it was in the heat of the moment. I’ve never been in that kind of situation before and I was totally scared. I told the hospital everything, but I didn’t tell the police.” Facing the two charges, Kris says despite protesting his innocence he was advised by his legal team to plead guilty and expect a suspended sentence. Kris insists that until that moment he had no idea that GHB was known as a date rape drug. Drugs, he is adamant, were never a part of his life.

His sentence was later reduced to 18 months on appeal and he was released in December 2010 on an electronic tag.

This title was a rollercoaster « Awww… WTF ew! »

Pretty sure marrying a guy who could pass as your brother is just the White Gay Experience

And they played brothers on Emmerdale!! And his character raped a female character on the show

The title is messy-family-secrets level of shocking, seconds ago i knew nothing of those people

The irony of him playing a rapist in Emmerdale.

This title is wild.
I missed on-screen the first time I read it, went and reread it twice, and then I got to the second sentence.

Reading the title made me need to lie down

I watch Emmerdale and I knew about their relationship, I didn’t know about the GHB though, yikes!

I have to admit that I read the caption multiple times because what a fucking journey that was 👀