Emmerdale confirms major return as star reprises role after 6 years

In a twist virtually nary of america were expecting for a Tuesday afternoon, Emmerdale has confirmed Mike Parr is returning to the ITV soap arsenic Ross Barton.

In a video posted by the Emmerdale X account, Bradley Johnson – who plays Vinny Dingle – tin beryllium seen wandering astir the Emmerdale gathering looking for the returnee.

Bradley goes connected a beauteous extended hunt successful makeup, property and costume, but remains wholly oblivious to the information Mike is successful the inheritance of astir of the shots!

Michael Parr played Ross Barton from 2013-2018. Father to Charity’s (Emma Atkins) lad Moses, Ross near the colony alongside Rebecca White for a caller beingness successful Liverpool.

Metro.co.uk has contacted Emmerdale for a comment.

Ross was progressive successful countless hard hitting storylines, including affairs, heists and even a arguable dognapping plot.

One of his astir harrowing storylines saw him go the unfortunate of an acerb attack, aft ex Debbie (Charley Webb) hired idiosyncratic to unsmooth up Joe Tate, but they got the incorrect man.

Ross is the lad of James and Emma Barton, making him the nephew of Moira (Natalie J Robb).

It’s imaginable that Ross is returning arsenic portion of Moira’s caller wellness storyline. The beloved quality was precocious told by a doc that she has a benignant of encephalon tumour called a meningioma.

The symptoms of this benignant of tumour see changes to personality, confusion, representation nonaccomplishment and seizures, each of which Moira has been experiencing successful the past fewer weeks.

Although the tumour is non-cancerous, it has near Moira apprehensive astir her aboriginal and acrophobic astir the anticipation of country and different treatments.

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