Recently in Emmerdale Will Taylor (Dean Andrews) encountered Rose (Christine Tremarco), a face from his past – and the experience rattled him so much he didn’t mention anything about it to Kim (Claire King) when he got back.
This is because Rose is actually his daughter Dawn (Olivia Bromley)’s mother, who hasn’t been present in Dawn’s life since she was a little girl. The meeting with Will was purely accidental, but Rose’s arrival comes at a hugely emotional time for Dawn and the rest of the family.
Dawn and Billy (Jay Kontzle)’s baby Evan is seriously ill and has to undergo tests which eventually reveal that he has a form of leukaemia. After Dawn meets Rose she’s in turmoil about how she feels.
Obviously there are a lot of unanswered questions and Rose has been absent during much of Dawn’s difficult life, but with her baby seriously sick will she feel she wants her mother to be around?
Rose takes the initiative and heads to Home Farm. Kim is somewhat surprised by her arrival, and when Rose demands to see Dawn, Kim insists on sitting in on the meeting.
An emotional Rose tells her daughter that she wants to make up for lost time and have a relationship with her, but Dawn insists she doesn’t want that.
Kim decides to get Rose to back off and offers her £2,000 to leave the Dales and go back to Spain, where she’s been living. Rose refuses so Kim raises her offer to £3,000 and when Rose refuses to accept Kim makes it clear that she’s perfectly capable of taking more extreme measures to make sure Rose leaves Dawn alone.
Knowing she’s beaten, Rose heads off. She first makes a stop at the Woolpack, where she’s soon joined by Kerry (Laura Norton) and Gail (Rachael Gill-Davis).
Billy sees her there and, knowing how upset Dawn is, he repeats Kim’s insistence that Rose should clear off from the village.
With her audience of Kerry, Gail and others Rose isn’t prepared to back down so easily and shocks everyone – including Dawn – by revealing that Kim tried to pay her off.
It looks like Kim’s plan well and truly backfires as Dawn issues an invitation to Rose to come and stay at Home Farm.
Of course Kim has another motive for not wanting Rose hanging around – she’s Will’s ex – so the situation could get very messy indeed.
‘She starts to worry she’s going to lose me. She’s not made of wood, is she?’ Dean Andrews told us.
Rose is set to stir things up at Home Farm, as Dean explained.
‘We’re a lovely little gang, Claire, Olivia and Jay. But obviously it’s nice when someone else comes in to create more drama or different dynamics, and get someone else on set with their energy. We’ve been on set together with our little gang for three or four years now so we know each other, we love each other, we have a great time, it’s brilliant.
‘But Christine’s a cracking actor, and I knew she’d fit in because she’s dead down to earth, as we all are. And she’s just good. So we were looking forward to her coming in and infiltrating the little gang and adding some more layers to the story.’
