Emmerdale's Jessie Elland say 'people underestimate' on-screen dad as she tells if Chloe has 'potential' to be like him

Emmerdale star Jessie Elland suggests people will 'underestimate' her on-screen dad as his identity has finally been revealed. It has been confirmed that gangster Harry is the father of Chloe Harris in the ITV soap as she reaches out to him for help after years of no contact.

Viewers will remember that Chloe ran away from her controlling and criminal father, know only as Damon, who was said to be in prison. But it was later revealed that Kerry Wyatt is Chloe's real mum and her biological dad is a man named Tony, who is also the father of her other daughter Amy Wyatt, but Kerry was said to have no contact with Tony, and that he has no idea Chloe exists.

And recently, Chloe has been hiding out away from the Yorkshire village following her split from Mackenzie Boyd. She had planned to do a runner to France with their son, Reuben, but has instead been at a secret location that only her sister Amy Wyatt - and her partner Matty Barton - knows about.

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But with Mack onto her after some information from Matty, Chloe's desperation to keep herself and her son away from her former flame after he decided to get back with wife Charity Dingle pushes Chloe to contact her dad and knowing Harry from previous run-ins with Caleb Milligan and Cain and Chas Dingle, viewers will know why he's not to be messed with.

When Chloe does reach out to her dad, it's the first time she's had contact with him in two years and is unaware of the links he already has to the village and what he already knows about her life since he's not