The character has been absent since November 2022, when she and young son Johnny moved to Canada\u00a0for a sabbatical<\/a> for village vet Vanessa.<\/p>\n Before this unexpected comeback, Rhona\u2019s worried mum Mary Goskirk (Louise Jameson) and husband Marlon Dingle (Mark Charnock) continued their efforts to find her, knowing she had fled with baby Ivy<\/a>.<\/p>\n Marlon was incredulous to hear that Charity Dingle\u2019s (Emma Atkins) words may have caused Rhona\u2019s disappearance, while we got a glimpse of Rhona\u2019s whereabouts as she sang to Ivy in a remote cottage.<\/p>\n Back in the village, Ivy\u2019s father Gus Malcolm (Alan McKenna) found out that Rhona and Ivy were missing.<\/p>\n But when he tried to call the police, Mary threatened to report him for stealing Rhona\u2019s passport to access the embryo that led to Ivy\u2019s birth.<\/p>\n Gus demanded that they get Rhona back immediately, but Marlon panicked to find Gus on the phone outside.<\/p> At the same time, Rhona answered the door to Vanessa and Johnny, and it became clear that Rhona had asked her to come.<\/p>\n But when Vanessa saw the baby, she was stunned. Can she convince Rhona to return home?<\/p>\n Read more:<\/strong><\/p>\n Emmerdale airs on weekdays at 7:30pm on ITV1 and ITVX. If you\u2019re looking for more to watch, check out our\u00a0TV Guide<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Streaming Guide<\/a>\u00a0or visit our\u00a0Soaps<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>hub.<\/strong><\/p>\n Try Radio Times magazine today and get 10 issues for only \u00a310 \u2013\u00a0<\/strong>subscribe now<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0<\/strong>For more from the biggest stars in TV, listen to\u00a0<\/strong>The Radio Times Podcast<\/a><\/strong>.<\/strong><\/p> <\/body><\/html>\n A surprise comeback! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":45659,"template":"","categories":[1,2,5],"acf":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/02\/vanessa-woodfield-returns-to-a-shock-in-emmerdale-as-rhona-goskirk-calls-for-help-scaled.jpg",2560,1706,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/02\/vanessa-woodfield-returns-to-a-shock-in-emmerdale-as-rhona-goskirk-calls-for-help-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/02\/vanessa-woodfield-returns-to-a-shock-in-emmerdale-as-rhona-goskirk-calls-for-help-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/02\/vanessa-woodfield-returns-to-a-shock-in-emmerdale-as-rhona-goskirk-calls-for-help-768x512.jpg",768,512,true],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/02\/vanessa-woodfield-returns-to-a-shock-in-emmerdale-as-rhona-goskirk-calls-for-help-1024x683.jpg",800,534,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/02\/vanessa-woodfield-returns-to-a-shock-in-emmerdale-as-rhona-goskirk-calls-for-help-1536x1024.jpg",1536,1024,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/02\/vanessa-woodfield-returns-to-a-shock-in-emmerdale-as-rhona-goskirk-calls-for-help-2048x1365.jpg",2048,1365,true]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"A surprise comeback!","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/45658"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"A](\"https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/3\/2024\/02\/emmerdale-rhona-cottage-835b134.png?quality=90&resize=620%2C413\" "\\"emmerdale-rhona-cottage\\"\/")
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