This article contains spoilers for tonight’s Emmerdale, which has not yet aired on TV but is available to watch now on ITVX.
After finding out that Steph Miligan (Georgia Jay) wasn’t his biological daughter earlier this week, Caleb Miligan (William Ash) was hit with another devastating bombshell in tonight’s episode.
Determined to get to the bottom of who had fathered Steph, Caleb summoned Ruby Fox-Miligan’s (Beth Cordingly) childhood friend Rob Harris to the house.
With Chas Dingle (Lucy Pargeter) having revealed that she knew about the DNA test and had got the impression from Ruby that she had been forced into s.e.x before she fell pregnant, Caleb violently confronted Rob, believing him to be the culprit.
However, Rob was adamant that he was innocent, revealing that he was gay and Ruby had been the only person who knew.
As he explained that she spent so much time at his house growing up because she was scared of her father, Anthony Fox (Nicholas Day), the penny began to drop for Chas.
After apologising to Rob and showing him out, Caleb was left confused when Chas pointed out that they now knew who Steph’s father was.
With Caleb struggling to grasp who she was referring to, Chas reflected on her own experiences with son Aaron Dingle (Danny Miller), who had been s.e.x.u.a.l.l.y abused by his father, Gordon.
As Chas explained that she believed Ruby had been s.e.x.u.a.l.l.y abused by Anthony, and he was Steph’s father, Caleb was horrified.
Meanwhile, Ruby was understandably reeling from her discovery that Steph was Anthony’s daughter, and took to drinking to try and numb her pain.
However, things got even more frightening for her when she woke up to Anthony sitting beside her on the bed.
Terrified, she warned him to stay away from her, while he continued to gaslight her about the past.
As he insisted that he had nothing to do with the fact that her marriage to Caleb had fallen apart, Ruby forced him to confront the past as she recalled what he had done to her.However, Anthony refused to accept that he had raped his daughter, even as she recalled how her mother hadn’t believed her when she confided in her.
Refusing to take any accountability for his actions, Ruby revealed the outcome of the DNA test, revealing that Anthony was Steph’s father, leaving him stunned.
In upcoming scenes, Anthony is set to be found d.e.a.d. With the truth now out in the open, who will be the one to end his life?
