Emmerdale’s Ruby Fox-Miligan (Beth Cordingly) has once again come to blows with her new neighbours – this time crossing paths with Charity Dingle (Emma Atkins) and Kerry Wyatt (Laura Norton).
After exposing Tracy Robinson’s (Amy Walsh) affair with her husband Caleb (William Ash), Kim Tate (Claire King) then revealed to him that Ruby was planning to strip him of his business and financial assets.
She’s seemingly on a mission to make an enemy of everyone in the village, and doesn’t care who she upsets in the process – or of the consequences that it will have for herself.
In tonight’s (14th March) episode, she began to seek out her next victims – Charity and Kerry.
Kerry returned to the ITV soap in the back of a police car last week, having been thrown off the cruise she was working as a Cher tribute act on.
She headed straight for Charity, who had recently returned home after being hospitalised for suffering a breakdown and stabbing husband Mack (Lawrence Robb).
Her mental health had spiralled after accidentally murdering Harry Harris (Robert Beck) on Christmas Day.
Despite once being responsible for a death herself, Kerry berated Charity for her actions and for driving her and Harry’s daughter Chloe (Jessie Elland) away.
After a few cross words, the women seemed to make amends in today’s instalment, although Kerry’s choice of the word ‘doo-lally’ left a lot to be desired.
Struggling to juggle working in The Woolpack alone after Chas Dingle (Lucy Pargeter) went into hospital for her double mastectomy surgery, Charity was egged on by Amy Wyatt (Natalie Ann Jamieson) to give Kerry a job.
In walked Ruby for a spot of lunch, and with Charity manning the kitchen after Mary Goskirk (Louise Jameson) went AWOL, it wasn’t long that she was complaining that her steak sandwich wasn’t cooked to perfection.
‘Oi, barmaid!’ she shouted over at Kerry, who was quick to chirp in with her own catty response: ‘Did you hear something? Something that sounded like a strangled cat?’
She asked for a knife for her food, citing it as Charity’s weapon of choice.
Awks.
‘How’s your husband?’ asked Charity.
‘Funny to think he never mentioned your name when he was in my bed, or Laila’s (Roxy Shahidi), or Tracy’s.’
Not impressed, Ruby then branded them both ‘a pair of snidey bitches’ and in a low blow, called Charity unstable, on the edge and inbred.
Unsurprisingly, she was then thrown out and barred from the pub, with Charity leaping to Kerry’s defence as a new member of her staff.
We didn’t see that one coming!
