Emmerdale confirms Ruby's mum's identity as Caleb's deal on deathbed uncovered

Emmerdale has confirmed Ruby Fox-Milligan's mum will soon be making an appearance on screen. Ruby arrived in the village earlier this year as the estranged wife of Caleb Milligan and mother to their son Nicky.

The father and son duo arrived has already arrived in the fictional Yorkshire village back in 2022 in a ploy to try and fleece Kim Tate of Home Farm, which Caleb believed to be his birth right as he was revealed to be the son of Kim's ex Frank Tate and the late Dingle matriarch Faith Dingle.

But Ruby's arrival quickly ruffled feathers - particularly among the Dingles after she got a of the green-eyed monster when exposing her husband's affair with his nephew's wife Tracy Robinson. More recently, Ruby has found herself at loggerheads with Moira Dingle resulting in an almost-deadly barn fire.

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Attentions, however, are soon going to be turned back onto Ruby and Celeb with details about their past set to be exposed thanks to the arrival of Ruby's mum Helen, played by Sharon Maughan, who has not seen her daughter in 30 years.

But Helen has a reason for her wanting to reconnect with her estranged daughter - she's dying. Speaking to the Manchester Evening News and other press, Caleb actor William Ash revealed that Helen and her husband cut Rub out of their lives as they did not approve of her relationship with Caleb.

He explained: "They hated him because he’d come out of a care home, he didn’t have any family and thought he was beneath their daughter. So, Helen was really snobby and judgemental. Helen and Ruby’s dad gave Ruby an ultimatum. They basically said ‘look if you want to be with this boy then we don’t want