Emmerdale’s Caleb Milligan (William Ash) will try and use a character’s impending death to his advantage in a shock new storyline.
Caleb and wife Ruby’s (Beth Cordingly) marriage is set to be rocked as her dying mother Helen (Sharon Moore) reaches out in an attempt to reconnect with her estranged daughter.
On Friday, fans saw a withheld number trying to call Ruby as she left hospital following the barn fire, before Caleb answered and told them not to call again.
When they do try again next week, it transpires it’s Ruby’s mum, who has not seen her in 30 years.
Actor William Ash explains to that Helen and her husband cut Ruby totally out of their lives as they did not approve of her relationship with Caleb.
‘He’d come out of a care home, he didn’t have any family and thought he was beneath their daughter,’ William tells us, who describes Helen’s call as ‘totally out of the blue’.
‘Because she’s been so manipulative and behaved terribly in the past, he just doesn’t trust anything that she’d ever say.
‘He decides to go just to see what she actually wants – because if she is on her deathbed, then maybe Ruby does need some kind of closure and there’s a potential for sorting it out.