Caleb and Ruby in Emmerdale have a daughter! This is HUGE!

And yes, we sort of knew about her but we didn’t know much. Or even if she really

existed. Because, let’s face it, the Fox-Miligans are fond of twisting the truth.

But in tonight’s episode, Caleb went to see his mother-in-law, Helen, in the hospital where she was lying dying. They exchanged some heated words and Helen asked Caleb if he’d seen anything of Stephanie.

Caleb looked furious and he firmly told Helen that she should never mention his kids.

OOH!

Emmerdale: Who is Caleb and Ruby’s daughter, Stephanie?

So who is Stephanie? And could she come to Emmerdale any time soon?

When Caleb first arrived in the village, he told Leyla that he had ‘kids’. Plural. Back then, of course, we didn’t know Nicky was his son.

And Nicky did mention a sister too. Though he also told Gabby that he was one of five siblings, that his mum was dead and that he was in love with her, so we can’t believe everything Nicky said.

But when Caleb was encouraging Nicky to keep going with the plot to scam Kim, he said it was important to keep his mum and sister in their house.

Estranged? Missing? Adopted?!

Since then, though, no one has so much as mentioned a daughter. Ruby has spoken many times about how much she is missing Nicky, and how desperate she is to get hold of him as he avoids her calls.

We know that when she was young, Ruby got pregnant and her mum offered to pay her to have an abortion. Ruby chose Caleb instead and the pair made a go of family life.

What we don’t know is if that baby was Nicky! After all, it’s Nicky’s birthday this week and we reckon he’s turning 24, making him born in 2000.

And Ruby is in her late 40s. Which means she’d have been young – early 20s – when Nicky was born but not so young her parents would have had concerns.

So does that mean Stephanie is Nicky’s older sister? She could be in her 30s now. Perhaps with a family of her own.

We would LOVE for them all to rock up in Emmerdale. And chances are, now she’s been properly mentioned it won’t be too long…

But perhaps if Ruby had her daughter when she was just a teenager, she could have given her up for adoption. Perhaps they have fallen out? Perhaps Stephanie doesn’t want anything to do with her parents – just as Nicky doesn’t.

Whatever the back story is, we can’t wait to hear it!