Emmerdale (ITV1 pace) - ** NO SPOILERS ** Ding dong Belle

[TellingBone]

Awaiting the verdict

Merry Christmas everyone. I hope you’ve all had a lovely day.

I enjoyed that episode. I hope that’s the end of Will and that Kim gets to play the grieving widow. Her black outfit was lovely this evening. It’ll do her for the funeral.

Poor Ruby. I hope she manages to control herself and doesn’t stab the disgusting old pervert although he deserves it.

Great to see Piper returned to Belle 🐶

Duid Joe nearly marry Debbie?

Ruby's dad makes me want to be sick.

I’m watching on +1, Rubys dad should just shut up and eat the turkey then leave Ruby alone

Awww look at Piper

Just seen Will. Definitely like Frank Tate and Kim watching him

Why doesn’t Ruby say anything and why doesn’t she kick him out?

Does Caleb think he's Steph's dad?

I thought they all believed it was her gay friend who was the father?

Yes. He started off tricking her as part of his revenge on Charity but he ended up falling for Debbie and wanting to marry her for real. They were going to get married at the hospital chapel as Sarah was seriously ill in hospital but Debbie was left waiting at the alter. Think that was when Cain attacked him and thought he'd killed him.

And yes, Ruby's dad makes me feel sick too. Such uncomfortable viewing.

I also don't know why Ruby doesn't say something about her father. Steph is so desperate to play happy families but Ruby should bring the whole stupid charade crashing down around them

You can't let somebody get away with that.

Shades of Frank there-Will shouldn't get his hopes up for an ambulance hopefully

I hope Dawn and Billy don’t arrive back from their conveniently timed walk just in time to save him.

Merry Christmas 🎄 all.

well that was so dull and disappointing for a Xmas day episode …
all the hype about Jamie/Joe was a non story…

No idea why Joe Tate is back but I hope we're not in for more backstabbing and wheeler dealing with haulage companies - nobody cares!

I was just waiting for her to get her compact mirror out !

Hello 🎄🎄🎄🎄...

Finally caught up this morning.
So what was the downfall that Will was planning?
Was it explained?

If Joe stays I am going to have to concentrate even harder at making sure I don't get characters muddled up 🤦‍♀️..

For me so far
Ross, John and Joe all have similar faces and physiques and that is going to muddle me up. 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤣🤣🤣!

Me too and thought the writers could have indulged us (we who remember that scene from many years ago) as it would have been a witty move. 🫢

I just realised it's on again tonight 🙄

@bizzey I don't think Will's plan has actually been explained properly. All we know is that he was apparently pretending to love Kim and was going through with some fake vowel renewal. Then he realised he did actually love Kim.

So was the grand master plan to say "only joking" and break Kim's heart? Who knows 🤷🏻‍♀️

I've come to the conclusion that these unfathomable plots [not just in Emmerdale] are simply the equivalent of Alfred Hitchcock's MacGuffins - a plot device to engineer a situation between characters. The detail matters not.

I agree they missed a trick by not replicating Kim's scene with Frank Tate.

Bit of a stretch to believe Sam and Lydia would go off to see Esther over Christmas.

Do we know who stephs dad is? Is her grandad her dad? :/

Caleb's supposed to be her Dad but who knows?

Not ɓeen revealed yet and if Ruby doesn't tell anyone what slimy grandad did, it never will be.

Yet another story that will drag on relentlessly

6:30 start today

I watched it earlier on ITVX because the tv is playing up and I didn’t want to risk missing it

Sounds like it's going to be miserable

Got her compact out!