 In 2017, Rachel's son Joseph Tate returns to the village under the false name Tom Waterhouse to get revenge on Charity Dingle.Joseph talks about Rachel's death and how he doesn't remember her.During a feature on the "wild women" of "Emmerdale", a writer for the "Daily Mirror" said "Not the most obvious of scarlet women, given those jumpers and that helmet hairdo, Rachel did not let that stop her having steamy affairs with some unlikely locals.