Last night’s Emmerdale saw a format change as Belle and Tom hosted a dinner party. The different style left some fans confused as they lost track of what was going on.

So what happened in Emmerdale last night?

Emmerdale airs format-breaking dinner party episode

Belle and Tom invited his work colleagues round for dinner. The first half of the episode saw the public side of the party.

It focused mainly on Rhona and Marlon and their crumbling marriage. As they both made snidely remarks to each other all night, it culminated in a huge bust up.

Rhona admitted she wasn’t really sorry for sending Gus to jail, she felt Marlon didn’t love her and then seemingly ended their marriage.

It left the others in the room – Paddy and Mandy and Vanessa and Suzy – feeling very uncomfortable. They made their excuses to leave, despite Belle’s pleas for them to stay.

After the advert break, the action wound back to the start and this time we saw the dinner party from behind closed doors. It focused on Belle and Tom and his awful abuse.

He discovered she was still taking her birth control pills and became very threatening. Once the guests had left, he exploded at her, called her a lying [bleep] and held her hand under a tap running with boiling hot water.

She cried out, devastated that he had hurt her. But will he regret his behaviour and apologise?