Emmerdale’s Nate ‘confirmed’ as body in the lake after Jeff Hordley’s telling reaction

Emmerdale’s Jeff Hordley, who plays Cain Dingle in the soap has addressed the mystery surrounding the body found amid the deadly limo crash.

On Monday night’s episode, ITV viewers saw Amy Wyatt plunge through the ice and become trapped. As she battled to get out of the ice, she was horrified when she came across a decomposing corpse in the water’s depths.

Panicking and screaming, she tried to get out, although she seemingly lost consciousness. As the episode aired, fans were left questioning whose body it could be, as they took to X, formerly known as Twitter to share their stories. As some believed it could be recently murdered Anthony Fox, others had another idea.

Jeff Hordley spoke about the recent storyline on Tuesday’s This Morning ( Image: ITV)

Many were convinced it was the body of Nate, as they spotted a bracelet that matched the ones made by Tracy and Nate’s daughter Frankie. Plus, his tattoo sleeve ‘gave it away’ for many fans.

Nate left the soap in September, although his exit was never shown. It came after He was beaten up by Cain after Caleb wrongly told his brother that Nate and Moira were having an affair. No one has heard from Nate since his exit, with fans ‘convinced’ he’s dead.

Now, Jeff who plays Nate’s onscreen dad, has spoken out about the mystery surrounding the body. In an interview on This Morning, hosts Alison Hammond and Dermot O’Leary couldn’t help but question the star – although he wasn’t giving anything away.

Fans are convinced the body is Cain’s son Nate

“Well I can’t tell you that Alison,” he said with a laugh. “But somebody else is under there. It could be – I don’t know who it could be,” he teased, as Dermot exclaimed: “It could be anyone!”

“It could be a postman we’ve never seen!” laughed Jeff. Is Jeff remaining coy because his onscreen son is the mystery corpse?

Elsewhere in the interview, the Emmerdale legend opened up about 25 years on the ITV soap, as he reflected on when he first joined. “It is a long time,” he said. “I remember joining many years and saying ‘I’m doing two years’. Two years then turned into six and then I left for a bit and then came back.

“It’s been a wonderful ride, and I’m really proud to still be here, to be honest with all these characters going!”

Recently, the star opened up on how he ‘worried’ about his future on the show, as he recently told The Sun: “I’m worried all the time! Not all the time, that’s a little bit over the top.

“Every time there’s news of this it can unsettle us as a cast because we know the shelf life of characters is not forever in soaps, and it’s down to the producers or the writers to steer the ship and take us in the direction they want to take us.”