Miligan’s secret hook-up with Cain Dingle.

Last year, Ruby betrayed her husband Caleb by sleeping with his brother Cain. While the tragic reason for

a lot of her behaviour was revealed, the infidelity isn’t public knowledge… for now.

Cordingly called it “one of those ticking time-bombs”, stating: “I think it’s good when stuff doesn’t come out too quickly, because then it’s just sitting there waiting and you know as soon as something’s going okay, it could just come out.

“Then you’ve got all this potential destruction. I think it’s good that it hasn’t come out yet but I’m sure it will.”

Speaking more specifically about the “potential destruction”, Cordingly said that Cain was “probably the worst person from Caleb’s point of view, because family means so much to him, and it’s taken him so long to feel a part of the Dingles.

“Cain means so much to Caleb. It’s quite hard for Ruby to break his heart, but this would be the way to do it, not that that was her intention. She was trying to hurt herself.

“She and Moira were becoming friends too, and had this really kind of wonderful relationship of spikiness and difficultness and then opening up to each other. So there’s that to damage too. I hope it’s really clear that there isn’t any kind of romance going on between Cain and Ruby at all. They both regretted it from the second it was over.”

The actor also pointed out that Ruby and Cain both project tough personas but are soft underneath, and thinks that “maybe if they hadn’t slept together, I think there would have been a potential that they could have been friends”.