The holly and MY IVY...

Rhona falls deeper for her daughter but is Marlon on the same page?

- ALISON SLADE

Rhona and Marlon have had their fair share of curveballs thrown at them over the years, but neither could've predicted the somewhat unorthodox situation they've found themselves in as they wake up in Smithy Cottage on Christmas morning.

The already bustling house has two lodgers in Rhona's ex-husband Gus and a gorgeous baby girl named Ivy. The tot is, biologically, Rhona and Gus', but was carried and birthed by Gus' second wife, Lucy, after she and Gus stole embryos from the IVF treatment he and Rhona had many years ago.