Where you have seen Emmerdale's Helen Fox star before as actress Sharon Maughan joins the ITV soap

Emmerdale is set to welcome the estranged mum of Ruby Fox-Milligan as actress Sharon Maughan joins the ITV soap for a stint as Helen Fox. But posh mum Helen hasn't seen her daughter for 30 years as details about Ruby (Beth Cordingly) and Caleb Miligan's (William Ash) relationship are set to be exposed.

In forthcoming scenes of the ITV soap, Caleb is set to be summoned to his very wealthy mum-in-law's hospital bedside. Helen will drop the bombshell that she is dying and wants to finally reunite with her daughter.

Caleb eventually agrees, but at a price. He tells Helen he will arrange for Ruby to see her again if she coughs up £100k - but will she pay the price to reunite with Ruby? Ruby arrived in the Yorkshire village earlier this year as the distant wife of businessman Caleb, and mum to their son Nicky.

The father and son had already been around for a couple of years, having arrived at Christmas 2022 to try and fleece Kim Tate (Claire King) out of Home Farm.

Caleb was soon revealed to be the son of Kim's ex husband Frank Tate (Norman Bowler) and Faith Dingle (Sally Dexter) - also making him the estranged half-brother to Cain (Jeff Hordley) and Chas Dingle (Lucy Pargeter).

But in forthcoming scenes, terminally ill Helen will reconnect with Caleb - what secrets will re-surface? William Ash has revealed that Helen and her husband cut Ruby out of their lives as they disapproved of her relationship with his character Caleb.

Speaking to the MEN and other press, the actor said: "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