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Emmerdale spoilers: The search for April takes a sickening turn

Marlon Dingle in the Woolpack talking to Rhona and Mary.

Emmerdale's Marlon Dingle is a desperate dad in Friday's episode (ITV, 7.00pm, see our TV Guide for full listings).

April Windsor is still missing and her dad Marlon Dingle is going out of his mind.

The teenager vanished into thin air on Christmas Day following a troubled spell.

April Windsor had been going off the rails before she went missing over Christmas. (Image credit: ITV)

Since then, her family has all but fallen apart as Marlon has thrown everything that he has at the search for his daughter.

The pub cook, who had a stroke some years ago, is at risk of another if he doesn't start taking care of himself but Marlon won't listen.

Continuing to neglect the needs of his other kids, Leo and Ivy, too, and barely able to factor his wife Rhona into his thought processes, desperate Marlon decides he's going to up the reward money in the hope folk will pipe up with news on the missing teen.

Rhona and her mum Mary are worried when Marlon makes the unilateral decision, fearful, that once again, they'll attract the wrong type of attention from the public.

Marlon Dingle's online appeal for information on April's disappearance prompted a wave of abuse and suspicion from trolls (Image credit: ITV)

Will the desperate dad's decision elicit the response he's hoping for? Will someone finally come forward with a genuine sighting of April?

Emmerdale is on at 7.00pm on ITV this Friday. See our TV Guide for full listings to find out when you can catch the soap on ITV and ITVX.

  • Caleb Miligan - Will Ash
  • Charity Dingle - Emma Atkins
  • Bob Hope - Tony Audenshaw
  • Laurel Thomas - Charlotte Bellamy
  • Gabby Thomas - Rosie Bentham
  • Jai Sharma - Chris Bisson
  • Lydia Hart - Karen Blick
  • Dawn Fletcher - Olivia Bromley
  • Paddy Dingle - Dominic Brunt
  • Marlon Dingle - Mark Charnock
  • Tom King - James Chas
  • Eric Pollard - Chris Chittell
  • Arthur Thomas - Alfie Clarke
  • Wendy Posner - Susan Cookson
  • Ruby Fox-Miligan - Beth Cordingly
  • Cathy Hope - Gabrielle Dowling
  • Noah Dingle - Jack Downham
  • Brenda Walker - Lesley Dunlop
  • Suzy Merton - Martelle Edinborough
  • April Windsor - Amelia Flanagan
  • Gail Loman - Rachael Gill-Davis
  • Vanessa Woodfield - Michelle Hardwick
  • Rhona Goskirk - Zoe Henry
  • Sarah Sugden - Katie Hill
  • Victoria Barton - Isabel Hodgins
  • Sam Dingle - James Hooton
  • Cain Dingle - Jeff Hordley
  • Eve Dingle - Bella James
  • Mary Goskirk - Louise Jameson
  • Amy Wyatt - Natalie Ann Jamieson
  • Vinny Dingle - Bradley Johnson
  • Kim Tate - Claire King
  • Billy Fletcher - Jay Kontzle
  • Ella Forster - Paula Lane
  • Charles Anderson - Kevin Mathurin
  • Liam Cavanagh - Jonny McPherson
  • Jimmy King - Nick Miles
  • Aaron Dingle - Danny Miller
  • Ryan Stocks - James Moore
  • Rodney Blackstock - Patrick Mower
  • Kerry Wyatt - Laura Norton
  • Matty Barton - Ash Palmisciano
  • Chas Dingle - Lucy Pargeter
  • Bear Wolf - Joshua Richards
  • Mandy Dingle - Lisa Riley
  • Leo Goskirk - Harvey Rogerson
  • Manpreet Jutla - Rebecca Sarker
  • Leyla Harding - Roxy Shahidi
  • Belle Dingle - Eden Taylor-Draper
  • Tracy Robinson - Amy Walsh
  • Nicola King - Nicola Wheeler
  • John Sugden - Oliver Farnworth
  • Claudette Anderson - Flo Wilson
  • Steph - Georgia Jay
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