Hearts break as another Emmerdale character reveals he has cancer

It’s astonishing to larn that Emmerdale’s Ruby Fox-Miligan (Beth Cordingly) has a heart, but she does, it’s conscionable buried nether umpteen layers of ice.

But that crystal has been thawing, ever since her estranged parent came backmost connected seen – though she died earlier Ruby could person the past word. And present Ruby’s facing immoderate quality that volition chopped close done that frozen interior.

It’s been a trying fewer weeks for the mildly unstable parent of two, who was crushed to larn that Caleb (Will Ash) had kept a cruel concealed that her dying parent had reached retired to her connected her decease bed.

The adjacent shocker was to larn that her estranged parent had been successful interaction with her estranged girl Steph each this time, not a comfy find astatine all.

The 3rd achy astonishment revealed itself erstwhile her girl Steph showed up successful the colony and confronted her mum astir her atrocious childhood, lone to person a slap alternatively of a reconciliation.

It’s a hard clip for Ruby and it’s not astir to get easier. Steph (Georgia Jay) had arrived with an docket – to get Ruby and her dada Anthony (Nicholas Day) talking again, the implicit past happening she wants.

When Anthony appears successful the village, Caleb stops and has a chat with him connected Ruby’s behalf, but alternatively of giving Anthony what for, he’s taken by his sincerity, meaning that Caleb is connected committee with Steph to assistance bring the 2 backmost together.

But there’s atrocious quality connected the horizon, for Steph astatine least. She learns the devastating information that her gramps has cancer.

Steph is stunned and saddened, but pledges to instrumentality by him erstwhile helium needs support the most. Steph sees an vantage successful this dire concern – she’ll beryllium capable to usage it to emotionally blackmail her parent into accepting Anthony backmost into her life.

But however sympathetic volition Ruby beryllium to the antheral who abandoned her? Surely having some of her parents dormant is conscionable what she wants. Or volition it beryllium the propulsion she needs aft missing retired connected the accidental of a last connection with her mum?