Emmerdale spoilers: Mandy’s latest scheme explained as the Dingle clan turn against her
EMMERDALE favourite Mandy Dingle’s latest escapades are set to turn her family against her in upcoming episodes this week.
The feisty character - played by Lisa Riley - has returned to the ITV soap after 18 years and is already ruffling up a few feathers. So what exactly has she been up to? Let’s find out…
Is Mandy Dingle back in Emmerdale for good?
Actress Lisa Riley made her long-awaited permanent return to Emmerdale in September 2019 when her character walked in on her new cousin-in-law, Jessie, buttoning herself up after cheating with her ex-husband.
Mandy and her son, Vinny, previously paid a short visit to the Dales earlier this year where she dropped the bombshell on her ex-husband Paddy Kirk that the man he thought to be his father actually isn't.
But it seems that Mandy and Vinny have something else they’re not telling the rest of the Dingle clan. So what is it?
What’s Mandy hiding?
It becomes clear this week that whatever Mandy is hiding has something to do with the bag of money and casino chips she’s trying to keep close to her chest.
But when Mandy starts acting suspicious around Butlers Farm, Chas realises that something kinda funny is going on with her cousin.
And when she eventually discovers what's in Mandy's secret bag she's less than impressed - and the rest of the Dingles aren’t too pleased either.
In later scenes, Mandy is chuffed when Aaron hands her an olive branch and offers to help her get the chips changed.
It’s soon obvious that Aaron has other plans though.
Meeting Mandy at the scrapyard, Aaron leaves her worried when he tells her that he wants commission.
And when Mandy kicks off, Aaron ‘accidentally’ throws her bag of money into a burning barrel.
But is everything as it seems?
Emmerdale fans were delighted when Mandy returned last Thursday and branded her cousin's wife Jessie a ‘cheating skank’ as she caught her snogging her ex-husband, Al.
As the pair hastily jumped apart, the former headteacher cried: "What the hell are you doing here?"
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Looking seriously unimpressed, Mandy replied: "Ruining the moment obviously."
Jessie immediately told her off for bursting into her home, but she was having none of it.
She said sarcastically: "I think you'll find this is his house and you won't be here much longer."
As Jessie pleaded with Mandy not to tell her cousin, she said: "Have you been on the nail polish? Of course I have to tell him!"
Jessie then brought up Marlon's young daughter April, and whipping round, Mandy hissed: "Are you really going to go there? His little girl?
"You're a cheating skank and you're not going to talk your way out of this one."