Emmerdale star teases 'ticking time bomb' for Ruby over Cain affair - 'It will come out'
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It’s been a rough start to 2025 for Emmerdale’s Ruby Fox-Miligan – and with her sinister father Anthony in town, it’s only set to become worse for the character. After the harrowing revelation that Anthony sexually abused Ruby as a child, we see her send off a DNA test to discover the truth about her daughter Steph’s paternity. But with her relationships with husband Caleb and 30-something Steph at risk, and her father maliciously meddling, Ruby agonises over whether to open the results.
“She wants to know that her greatest fear isn’t true – that Steph is not her dad’s,” actress Beth Cordingly says. “She wants that reassurance so she can move on. But she’s always had the fear, from the minute she got pregnant, that the baby may not be Caleb’s. She didn’t deceive him, she just desperately wanted it to be his.”.
For Beth, 48, it’s a relief to share Ruby’s story with viewers after her villainous first year. Since joining the ITV soap in January last year, Ruby has vengefully run over Ethan Anderson, plotted to take down Kim Tate and cheated on Caleb with his half-brother Cain.
“It’s lovely that the audience is now in on her story and able to go on the journey with her,” she says. “I feel the audience will now understand her behaviour more. It’s a massive privilege to do a storyline like that, and we all really hope we’re getting it right.”.
Ruby ultimately chooses to destroy the DNA results after seeing how Caleb and Steph are repairing their relationship. But in a cruel twist, Caleb finds the results before Ruby can get rid of them. “She’s like a deer in the headlights in that moment,” Beth says. “He is staring at her, and until he says what the results are, she has no idea herself. It’s like an unexploded bomb he’s holding.
