Not sure what’s happened here, but we’re actually feeling sorry for Kim Tate (Claire King) in Emmerdale. Kim is our favourite Emmerdale tyrant and we’re feeling a bit protective of her

in her new vulnerable state. If Joe Tate (Ned Porteous) thinks he’s taking her crown, he can do one. Although he’s not the one who’s hurt our little Kim, it’s Graham Foster (Andrew Scarborough)

, who is messing with our heads as much as Kim’s. One minute we’re rooting for him as mister nice guy, helping ailing Cain Dingle (Jeff Hordley) with his farming predicaments,

the next he’s trying to break up Rhona Goskirk’s (Zoe Henry) marriage and manipulating Kim into bed.

Oh look out

His arrival back in the Dales threw Kim into a spin, given that she thought he’d been dead for six years. Ever since he returned, he’s been plotting to discredit Kim in Joe’s eyes, encouraging him to break ties with the Home Farm matriarch.

Kim has been fighting her feelings for her ex, putting on a frosty front while admitting to Lydia Dingle (Karen Blick) that there is regrettably something still there. When Graham gave Rhona an ultimatum that she seemingly refused (only because her child got sick, who knows what would have happened if Rhona had met Graham on that bridge?!), he took his battered ego and lured Kim into bed.

The next day he brushed her off, leaving her in a bad head space. Humiliated, she admitted to Lydia she’d never again let him get close – and yet he continues to live in her house.

Scorned Kim is now thinking up new ways to protect herself and forms an unusual alliance – she hires Ross Barton (Mike Parr) to take on the very important role of her Director of Operations, aka a glorified bodyguard.

Slowly, Kim plans to build an army against Graham.

Graham reacts badly to this news, just as Kim hopes he would. He knows Ross and Dawn have a history, so the first thing he does is go in heavy and warns Ross off.

Ross is not one to be intimidated and finds Graham’s attempt laughable, instead lauding it over him that he’s now Kim’s ‘extra muscle’. Has Graham met his match?