Emmerdale’s Ruby is the epitome of the perfect soap character and she keeps getting better When a character comes in with a minx-like attitude, acerbic one-liners and a nature that makes you wonder if she’s just here to wreck lives, it can be a risk – very easily a newcomer like this can put viewers right off.
But from day one, Emmerdale – not to mention acclaimed actress Beth Cordingly – have nailed Ruby Fox-Miligan.
She’s the epitome of a classic soap female – feisty and hilarious, trouble to the core, but with a strong vulnerability that gives her so many dimensions.
And she could so easily have left viewers enraged at her forever after her ill-advised liaison with Cain (Jeff Hordley).
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