Emmerdale’s Beth Cordingly has shared a message to fans following some emotional episodes of the ITV soap.
Last week, Beth’s character Ruby Fox-Miligan discovered partner Caleb Miligan (William Ash) is not the father of her daughter Steph (Georgia Jay).
To her horror, Ruby realised it meant her father Anthony (Nicholas Day) is, after the evil man sexually abused her when she was a child.
Thursday and Friday’s instalments of the show saw Ruby’s traumatic secret exposed to Caleb and Chas Dingle (Lucy Pargeter). The character, who arrived in the village at the start of last year, also confronted her father – but he initially denied the abuse and claimed he simply had a close relationship with Ruby when she was younger.
After Caleb and Chas realised Anthony is Steph’s dad, Ruby sat down with her husband and slowly opened up about her ordeal. It was an incredibly powerful moment, one that saw Beth praised by fans for her performance.
Following these scenes, Beth took to Instagram to thank audience members for their messages.
She wrote in the caption alongside: ‘Thank you to everyone for your amazing messages. Working on this storyline is an enormous privilege and we all really care about it.
‘The cast, crew, producers, writers. It’s been one of the great privileges of my life (truly) to say these words on behalf of RUBY’s everywhere…and all that we hoped for as a team on @emmerdale is that we could – in some small way – make you feel respected and heard.
‘Sorry I can’t reply to every message but I do read them and I’m so grateful for your courage in sharing your thoughts and feelings with me. Much love, Beth.’
In the video, Beth is sat on a train and says to the camera:
‘Just watched tonight’s Emmerdale and I was proud of it. I think it’s really good, the writing is beautiful, I’m really proud and I feel really privileged I’ve been involved in this storyline and thank you for your amazing messages.
‘We really care about it, everyone cares about it at work and everyone – the producers, writers, the crew, everyone’s so invested – camera, sound, makeup, costume, all the actors, everyone’s really invested and it’s been an amazing experience to work on it.
‘I’m proud of it. I’m really proud.’
This week in the ITV soap, the aftermath of Caleb and Chas’ discovery will lead to someone in the village k.i.l.l.i.n.g Anthony.
Among the list of suspects are Aaron (Danny Miller), Laurel (Charlotte Bellamy), Nicola (Nicola Wheeler) and Ruby herself, but ultimately one resident will be responsible for ending the man’s life.
The k.i.l.l.e.r, however, hasn’t accounted for Anthony losing a tooth in the struggle, and it’s lying on the ground waiting to be discovered.
Who will find it?
