Emmerdale has revealed the identity of newcomer

Rose in the latest instalment.

Thursday’s (April 25) episode featured Will reconnecting

with someone very important from his past while visiting

the hospital. Viewers saw him briefly excuse himself from a meeting with Kim Tate and Billy Fletcher at Home Farm to take a private phone call.

Later, Dawn came home to find Kim and Lucas painting their faces and asked why Will wasn’t taking part. Kim explained that Will was on an errand but Dawn had just seen his truck in the yard.

“Must have got my wires crossed,” Kim admitted to Dawn.

Will had actually gone to the hospital where he heard a familiar voice speaking to the nurses. He walked into a nearby hospital room where he saw a woman named Rose with her arm in a sling.

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Rose cheerily explained that she’d fallen down the stairs during a “boozy all-nighter”, as an unnerved Will listened. It turns out that Will had been called to the hospital as Rose’s next-of-kin but he wanted his contact information to be removed from her file.

“We mean nothing to each other,” Will insisted, with Rose cheekily replying: “Same page, babycakes! There’s a first, eh?”

The two bickered about being in a relationship years ago, with Rose insisting she “had to leave to live”. An angry Will hit out at Rose for “ditching her daughter” — revealing that Rose is Dawn’s long-lost mother.