Emmerdale Joe Tate star lets slip character’s fate and soap future after chronic diagnosis

Joe Tate star Ned has opened up about his future on the show(Image: ITV)

Joe Tate has been hiding a dark secret from his fellow Emmerdale villagers. The character – a fan favourite – returned to the soap at Christmas, but it soon became clear that he was hiding a dark secret.

Now it looks like Joe will go to any length to secure his own future. In a new chat with The Mirror and other press, Ned Porteous – who plays Joe – teased that there are some dark times ahead for Joe, as he hinted on whether Joe would survive.

Asked how far he thinks Joe is willing to go to get what he wants in life, he said: “I think to the end of the world, because what he wants right now is to save his own life. So what would you do to save your own life? Especially as someone like Joe values his life so highly. so he would do anything. I’m pretty sure.”

Next week, Joe gets Caleb attacked in order to take his kidney and keep himself alive – but at what cost to Caleb will that be?

Asked if Joe gets caught, and if there would be a showdown between the families, he warned: “I think you can always expect a showdown in this show. I think it would be really exciting to see a big clash of these, you know, Titan families in the show.

Joe goes to huge lengths next week to get what he wants(Image: ITV)

“I’d like to see a big bust up between the Dingles, the Milligans, the Tates, you know, I think I think the fans would like to see that as well. It is boring to see a show where everyone’s getting on.”

If Joe ends up surviving this latest health battle, Ned has teased what the future might hold for the character. He said: “As we’ve started to see, there are other things in the village that are keeping Joe’s attention.

“So if he should ever realises that he’s healthy again, what’s next, you know, everything which is going on with Dawn, if it does seem legitimate and if it is legitimate, then that will obviously be something to keep him around. Also he’s also very low on family members, so potentially being just around Noah, that could be enough to stay. Family is important to him so he may want to stick around.”

Asked if Joe’s feelings for Dawn are genuine, he added: “I think it’s always hard to think whether any of Joe’s feelings are genuine. But I believe that he is a man who has numerous games he is trying to play with other people around the village and whether he says he loves someone. He might be being truthful. But whether he’s even capable of properly loving someone and the vulnerability that comes with loving someone, well then that’s a different question. So we’ll never know.”