Emmerdale lines up a tense week for various residents of the eponymous village, as confirmed in my new spoiler pictures, with a milestone event bringing back memories while an update sends shockwaves.
The milestone event belongs to Ella Forster (Paula Lane), who struggles ahead of her 30th birthday.
Mandy Dingle (Lisa Riley) gets wind of the receptionist’s approaching big 3-0 and thus decides to mark the occasion with a treat.
Ella is overwhelmed when Mandy surprises her with a full beauty treatment at the salon but her happiness is short-lived after she’s informed that her friend has posted ‘before’ and ‘after’ photos on the business’ socials.
Wanting there to be no trace of herself online due to her past, Elle flips out at poor Mandy, destroying the birthday cake the beautician had bought for her.
Liam Cavanagh (Jonny McPherson) witnesses the scene and assists in calming Ella down as he accompanies her to her surprise party at the Woolpack but, from there, things get even worse, with Wendy Posner (Susan Cookson) set to be attacked.
Yikes!
Up at Home Farm, Dawn Taylor (Olivia Bromley) is keen to report Rose Jackson (Christine Tremarco) missing, much to the dismay of Will (Dean Andrews), who rapidly tries to get in touch with Kim Tate (Charlie King) to update her on the situation.
But he ultimately fails to do so, with Kim not taking his calls.
The situation escalates as Dawn shares some news, revealing that Evan might need a bone marrow transplant, meaning that she’ll need to contact Rose.
Despite his reservations, Will comes to the belief that Rose does, in fact, need to be located but, sick with worry, he instead composes a message on his missing ex’s phone to send to Dawn.
Will Dawn see through his lies? Or has Will successfully covered his and Kim’s tracks?
It’s going to be quite a week in the village – one not to be missed!
Emmerdale airs these scenes between Monday, August 19 and Friday, August 23 at 7:30pm on ITV1 and ITVX.
