It wouldn't be Christmas without a sprinkle of drama, and ITV's Emmerdale has plenty for viewers in the Christmas Day episode.
April has been going through a tumultuous period over the last few weeks, from finding out how her mother Donna Windsor actually died, to realising her dad Marlon Dingle lied about the death, to her recent friendship with Ross Barton coming to an end as he tells her to leave him alone.
In Wednesday (25th December) night's episode viewers watched Marlon Dingle panic as he realised teenage daughter April wasn't asleep in her bed on Christmas morning.
As Marlon begins to unravel the devastating reasons his daughter chose to go missing, he begins to discover she was leading a life he was completely unaware of.
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