ITV Share By Kerry Barrett Dec 21 2025 By Kerry Barrett Dec 21 2025 Emmerdale review: Celia's evil empire is beginning to crumble, Ray's smitten, and Kim was all alone Ray and Laurel are smitten but when will the truth be revealed? Celia Daniels Features Kim Tate Share By Kerry Barrett Dec 21 2025 By Kerry Barrett Dec 21 2025 Our Emmerdale review is laced with hope this week as we started to see chinks in Celia’s evil armour. Will she finally be caught out or is she one step ahead as usual? Meanwhile, we’re still tearing our hair out over Marlon’s total inability to lock his front door, and Rhona’s childcare worries. Plus we’re worried Sam and Lydia can never recover from causing the death of Kim’s beloved Ice. Here’s everything we thought of the action in this week’s Emmerdale review. article continues below Read all the latest spoilers Celia’s evil empire is beginning to crumble (Credit: ITV) Celia’s evil empire began to crumble this week… sort of. On Monday we were a bit over excited when Marlon spoke to the police at the hospital. It turned out the police knew everything that had been going on, and for a blissful, heady moment we thought Marlon was working with them to bring Celia and Ray to justice. We were wrong. The police told Marlon they were investigating and basically told him to go home and stop bothering him. But here’s the thing. The police don’t appear to be investigating at all. They’ve not spoken to Celia nor Ray, and they’ve certainly not been to the farm because that would raised all sorts of alarms. They’ve not spoken to Moira, nor Kim. They don’t even appear to have spoken to Dylan despite lurking outside his hospital room! Where is PC Swirling when you need him, eh? Moira gave Celia a good slap! (Credit: ITV) Moira v Celia Anyway, later in the week we had that glimmer of hope again when Moira’s suspicions were raised. She discovered Celia had been faking her signature on invoices and she was not happy about it. She even gave Celia a slap in the pub! And Celia put in a strong performance as she pretended to be afraid of Mrs Dingle, falling into Bob’s arms for comfort and making the nation tut at how gullible Mr Hope is. Moria and Cain went to confront the dodgy drug dealers but were placated by Celia transferring the money she owed Moria. Dodgy as though turkey profits are, we’re still not sure Moria has earned any of them. We can’t work out what involvement she has in the turkey farm. None as far as we can tell! Laurel and Ray are smitten with one another but she doesn’t know the truth (Credit: ITV) Laurel and Ray Our hopes were also dashed when Laurel broke up with Ray, only to take him back five minutes later. This cannot end well! Celia was poisonous as she and Ray joined Laurel for lunch. She dropped hints that Ray was still in touch with his ex, that he was a player, that Laurel would regret getting involved with him… Laurel called things off, and Ray was very angry! Laurel was quite alarmed. But Ray wouldn’t take no for an answer, and he eventually convinced her to take him back. Though quite how he’ll convince her to forgive him when she finds out about his ‘job’, we’re not sure. Sam and Lydia have done a bad thing (Credit: ITV) Kim’s all alone Poor Kim was devastated when Ice was put down. And then again when she overheard Joe talking about taking over the business. So she took action. She changed her will to leave Home Farm to Lydia, unaware that she and Sam were the ones who organised the dodgy shoot that left Kim injured and Ice dead. Lydia tried to put things right, spending time with Kim and helping her find the right place to scatter Ice’s ashes. But the guilt was too much and she eventually fessed up to Kim, admitting what she and Sam had done. Predictably, Kim reacted badly, throwing Lydia out and sacking both her and Sam. And actually we think she was right! Lydia and Sam have done a terrible thing. Can they recover from this? Rhona is going to have to look after little Ivy without her mum’s help! (Credit: ITV) The big questions… We’ve got some things that have been bothering us. Firstly, what’s happened to Celia’s dog? The one who attacked Paddy. Secondly, why oh why does Marlon never lock his front door? Given the tendency of the local drug-dealing homicidal maniacs to wander into his cottage, you’d think he’d be more security conscious! And finally, how on earth is Rhona going to cope looking after Ivy now she’s thrown Mary out?! Share Good to Know Share By Kerry Barrett Dec 21 2025 By Kerry Barrett Dec 21 2025 Next Story
