Things are not going well for Katie in Classic Emmerdale spoilers for episodes airing on ITV3 on Wednesday, February 26.
There’s trouble at the stables and none of it is Katie’s fault but she’s the one paying the price. Elsewhere, Toni’s getting ready for her op but she won’t see Paddy.
These episodes originally aired September 25 and 26 2006.
Jo’s annoyed when Andy rejects her and throws a bucket (Credit: ITV/Shutterstock )
Stables drama!
Jo’s upset when Andy rejects her. Annoyed, she throws a bucket, which in turn spooks Perdy’s horse. It bolts out of the stables and gets injured.
Katie is absolutely furious and worried about how Perdy will react when she finds out. And when Hari comes to look at the horse, he gets kicked!
Diane lays down the law in Classic Emmerdale
Diane refuses to let Val behind the bar at the Woolpack, instead recruiting Sandy, Betty and Len to help out when the pub gets busy.
Paddy visits Toni in hospital but she turns him away (Credit: ITV/Shutterstock)
Toni’s tough time
Toni is trying to stay cheerful ahead of surgery on her burns, but when Paddy visits her in hospital, she turns him away. Later, after the operation, she is in pain after the surgery, but she’s inundated with a string of unwanted visitors.
Expensive injuries
Later, a fuming Perdy takes her annoyance out on Hari, who presents her with a huge bill for treating the injury to her horse. Perdy immediately passes it on to Katie claiming her negligence caused the injury. Katie’s horrified at the size of the bill, and even more shocked when she discovers her insurance won’t cover the cost. How will she pay up?
Money worries in Classic Emmerdale spoilers
Elsewhere Grayson struggles to secure a mortgage to buy Mill Cottage.
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Cain Dingle waved goodbye to the village in Classic Emmerdale episodes that aired this week. He headed off into the sunset with a huge pile of stolen cash, having betrayed Sadie King and broken daughter Debbie’s heart.
Cain had been in Emmerdale since 2000, but he left at the end of 2006 and didn’t return for three years.
Here’s the lowdown on why he left – and when he returned.
Cain Dingle arrived in Emmerdale in 2000 (Credit: ITV/Shutterstock)
Cain’s early days in Emmerdale
On-screen things weren’t going well for Cain Dingle by 2006. He’d come to Emmerdale for his cousin Butch’s funeral but quickly became part of the furniture in the village.
But after his ill-fated affair with Angie Reynolds things took a turn. He spiralled downwards, despite getting to know his teenage daughter Debbie.
Some of his bad behaviour included seducing Debbie’s teenage girlfriend Jasmine, seducing Angie’s teenage daughter Ollie, and getting involved with ice queen Sadie King.
Cain and Sadie had a toxic partnership that led to him leaving the village (Credit: ITV/Shutterstock)
Cain and Sadie
It was his involvement with Sadie that led to Cain leaving Emmerdale, seemingly for good.
The Kings had big plans to expand their business empire, with a new housing development called Kings River. But Sadie wanted it to fail so she paid Cain to damage the show home with a JCB.
With time tight before the launch, the Kings cut corners. And that meant as the show home was opened with a fanfare, the house exploded! Dawn Woods, Noreen Bell and an estate agent were killed.
The Kings covered it all up, but Cain and Sadie wanted revenge.
But Tom was suspicious and convinced – rightly – that Sadie was in on it. So Cain shot Sadie and killed her!
The money was handed over, and Tom was rescued. But there was no sign of dead Sadie. It had all been clever hoax! She turned up at an airfield ready to meet Cain and make their escape – but Cain had something else up his sleeve.
He was holding a grudge against Sadie because she had paid for Jasmine to abort Cain’s baby. And in revenge he took all the money and abandoned Sadie on the runway. As Cain flew over the village, the Dingles watched from the ground, convinced they’d never see him again!
Cain came home to Emmerdale to help daughter Debbie (Credit: ITV/Shutterstock)
Cain’s return
But in 2009, Cain returned to help daughter Debbie, who’d been accused of murdering crooked copper Shane Doyle.
He helped Debbie get off, and to win custody of her daughter Sarah from her violent ex, Andy Sugden.
And he came back to the village for good. He went on to marry Moira, have two more kids, discover the son he didn’t know he had in Nate, and generally become one of soap’s most iconic bad boys!
Jeff looked aftetr the kids while wife Zoe was starring in Coronation Street (Credit: David Fisher/BAFTA/Shutterstock)
Why did Jeff Hordley AKA Cain leave Emmerdale?
Actor Jeff Hordley quit Emmerdale in 2006 to dip his toes into other projects – particularly theatre work.
“From 2000 until 2006, I’d only been four years out of drama school. I hadn’t ticked all of the boxes that I wanted to tick,” he told Mik Artistik’s Ego Podcast in 2021. “There were a couple of places where I wanted to work in London. I wanted to fulfil those things. So for three years, I did that.”
Cain leaves Emmerdale: Jeff and Zoe’s family life
And it wasn’t just his desire to try his hand at other roles that led to him having three years away from Emmerdale.
Jeff is married to co-star Zoe Henry, who plays Rhona in Emmerdale. They have two children – Stan and Violet – who were very small at the time.
“Zoe looked after our daughter for a few years and had stopped working. We always said whoever got the biggest job – when I left Emmerdale, if she got the bigger job then I would look after the children,” Jeff explained on the podcast. “Sure enough that happened. Zoe ended up being in Coronation Street for a year and I stayed back and looked after the kids for about a year as well.”
Thankfully with Jeff and Zoe’s kids now much older and them both working at Emmerdale, it seems Cain’s not going anywhere – for now at least!
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The fallout from the kidnapping shakes the village in Classic Emmerdale spoilers for episodes airing on ITV3 on Tuesday, February 25.
Cain’s gone and the Kings want justice, but will they get to the bottom of what happened?
These episodes originally aired September 22 and 24 2006.
The Kings are fuming!
The village comes to terms with the outcome of the kidnapping, while the police accuse Carl of being in on it as part of an insurance scam. Carl reacts in a calm and considered way – by shoving the police officer into a wall! And things get worse as he begins to suspect that Chas played a bigger part in this whole thing than she claims.
Pointing fingers
Tom’s fuming too and he blames Matthew for bringing Sadie back into their family. He even takes his frustrations out on Edna when she points out that she warned him about Sadie.
Tom pulls some strings to get his friend and local chief constable Charles Vaughan to investigate. But Chas isn’t impressed with the Kings pointing fingers at her and decides it’s time to move out of Home Farm.
Debbie’s upset in Classic Emmerdale
Meanwhile, Debbie goes to see Tom and tells him Cain betrayed Sadie and left her stranded. Back home, she’s upset about her dad leaving but when Zak tries to comfort her, she’s not interested. Later, she tells Scott she’s only relying on herself from now on.
Classic Emmerdale: Smashing success!
Elsewhere, Jack tells Diane he’s not going to make another bid for the Woolpack. Diane gets legal advice from Grayson. Confident she can stop Val from becoming her partner, she refuses to sign the contract.
But later, Eric tries to persuade Diane not to back out of the agreement with Val and she eventually agrees.
Their first day as partners is a smashing success! Because Val drops a crate of champagne on her sister’s foot.
Carl’s suspicious when he sees Chas with a stack of cash (Credit: ITV/Shutterstock)
Carl’s suspicious
Elsewhere, Matthew tells Carl he’s sure Chas was part of the kidnapping. And Carl becomes more suspicious when he pops into Wishing Well and spots Chas holding a bundle of money Cain has sent the family.
Zak agrees to let Chas give the money back but she’s upset when she does so and Carl still doesn’t take her side against his family. As Chas leaves, he realises his mistake and chases after her but he’s too late.
Meanwhile, Debbie wants nothing to do with the cash.
Grayson’s making deals (Credit: ITV/Shutterstock)
Making deals
Elsewhere, Grayson is interested in Mill Cottage, and Perdy drives a hard bargain to stable her horse at Katie’s. And she argues with Matthew when he hints he might kill Sadie’s horse.
Paddy tries to pluck up the courage to visit Toni in hospital.
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Vanessa, who was with Suzy in the limo when it crashed, was devastated and held her girlfriend in her arms for as long as she could, before she had to leave the car and get to safety.
We’ve just about recovered from those heartbreaking scenes now, so we grabbed the chance to catch up with Michelle Hardwick, who plays Vanessa, and found out how she coped filming such emotional scenes. And she gave us a little hint about what’s in store for Vanessa, too.
Vanessa was having a whale of a time before the limo crash (Credit: ITV)
Vanessa faces heartbreak in Emmerdale after the limo crash
As the women realised Suzy was dead they were shocked and horrified, but they also had to focus on getting themselves out of the car. So how did Michelle approach those scenes.
“Just putting yourself in that situation, it’s sheer panic,” she explained. “You’re in this confined space, I remember thinking ‘how would you react?’. You’d either go hysterical where you don’t stop screaming, but if I played it like that it wouldn’t be great! Or you just go into shock and disbelief.”
But the hardest part of the scene, according to Michelle, was when Vanessa had to leave Suzy behind. “It was so heartbreaking. It was horrific. It was so, so upsetting to do. Obviously it was Martelle’s last few days as well. It was really hard, really upsetting.”
There are hard times ahead for Vanessa (Credit: ITV)
Real-life emotions!
And the filming itself took its toll on Michelle.
“It was like 1am and it was heartbreaking to film,” she tells us. “It was really sad. I think because it was the the middle of the night in December and your emotions are heightened anyway, and I just broke down off camera. It was really emotional!”
But despite the tears, Michelle is full of praise for the dramatic episodes.
“It was one of the best things I’ve ever filmed in my career,” she tells us. “It was like being on a Hollywood film set. It was exciting. It was wonderful. But it was bittersweet because we knew we were losing some of our colleagues.”
There was a connection between Suzy and Mary when Vanessa was away (Credit: ITV)
Secrets revealed for Vanessa in Emmerdale
Of course, as far as Vanessa’s concerned, everything between her and Suzy was fabulous, but Michelle hints that perhaps that’s not exactly accurate.
“It was going really well, in Vanessa’s eyes, but if you think about what we’ve seen on screen, she had alluded to the fact that maybe the intimacy wasn’t there…” And that wasn’t all, Michelle reminds us. “In the limo she told Suzy she loved her and she didn’t really get anything back. But she thought Suzy was stressed. She wasn’t reading too much into it. But maybe she should have…”
Sounds intriguing! Perhaps Vanessa is going to find out something Suzy had been keeping from her? How would she feel if she found out Suzy wasn’t as committed?
“She would be heartbroken but also wouldn’t really believe it,” Michelle says. “Vanessa always puts 100% into what she does.”
Vanessa has good friends to help her through (Credit: ITV)
Support network after the limo crash
Luckily, Vanessa has a really strong network around her to help her get through the next few weeks. Who’s going to be there for her? We know she’ll lean on best friend Rhona and sister Tracy, but Michelle says she could also grow closer to someone a little surprising.
“When Vanessa was in Canada, Suzy and Mary had this connection but nothing came of it,” she reminds us. “But because Mary and Suzy had a tight friendship, which Vanessa knew about, Mary’s going to be the biggest support to Vanessa.”
Tough times ahead for Vanessa, there’s no doubt. But we can’t wait to see what happens next!
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This Emmerdale review is a bit tear-stained and blotchy. Because what a week it’s been in Emmerdale. What. A. Week. So much death and devastation and more on the horizon with the truth about Noah still to be revealed AND Nate’s body to be uncovered.
There’s a lot to say about everything that happened this week, so here’s what we thought in our Emmerdale review.
There was a lot of drama in this week’s Emmerdale (Credit: ITV)
The limo crash
As stunts go, the limo crash wasn’t without its faults. The way everyone kept slamming the car door shut. The high heels on the thin ice. But watching those women make it across the frozen lake one by one was thrillingly tense!
And, as it turned out, the stunt wasn’t really the main focus of this week’s Emmerdale. The real story was everything that came afterwards. In fact, it’s hard to know where to start our Emmerdale review because it has been a week of such high drama and so many emotional moments.
Exhausting (Credit: ITV)
Caleb v Cain
Let’s start with the drama in the men’s limo and Caleb confronting Cain about him sleeping with Ruby. It’s hard to listen to Caleb being holier than thou when it comes to adultery and family loyalty. Let’s not forget he slept with his nephew’s wife. BUT the fact remains that Cain did a very bad thing. Mack told him he was pathetic, and we can’t help but agree. Even Cain himself said “there’s some things you can’t come back from”. He’s right!
We’re glad everyone knows, and we hope Ruby doesn’t get too much of the blame because we really feel like she wasn’t in her right mind when it happened. Though she does deserve a bit of the blame. A little bit.
There’s one thing we keep coming back to in all of this. And that’s how Cain and Caleb are exhausting. This endless ‘act first regret it later’ stuff is wearing us out. It was hard enough when it was just Cain but now Caleb’s here too, doing the same stuff. We need a break from it all!
We can’t even (Credit: ITV)
Emmerdale review: Leyla’s tragic death
We seemed to spend most of this week’s Emmerdale welling up, because it was all just so sad. Suzy’s death was horrible, and Vanessa having to leave her behind was really hard to watch.
But it was Leyla’s death that broke us! Jacob trying to resuscitate his mum was just devastating and him sobbing over Leyla’s body had us sobbing too. Joe-Warren Plant who plays the student doctor has smashed it out of the park this week – what a talent he is.
And it wasn’t just Jacob who had us in floods. The quiet sadness of Lydia telling Eric, and then Eric hugging his grandson made us weep all over again.
Who’d be a lesbian in soap, eh? (Credit:ITV)
Suzy and Amy’s deaths
There is a jokey – sort of jokey – trope on social media about the risk of being a lesbian in film and TV. It even has a name – Dead Lesbian Syndrome. And there’s no denying that gay women do seem to die at an alarming rate in Corrie, Emmerdale and EastEnders. Now we’ve lost Suzy, too. And another LGBTQ relationship – Matty and Amy’s marriage – has been tragically cut short.Â
We thought it was worth pointing out, but none of that takes away from the utter sadness and shock of losing all three women this week. What a tragedy!
Emmerdale was cinematic this week (Credit: ITV)
Emmerdale review: like watching a film!
Soaps are like old friends, aren’t they? You know what to expect from them. But sometimes they surprise us. And Emmerdale definitely surprised us this week.
We are sometimes suspicious when soaps use cinematic techniques to tell their stories. Odd camera angles, and background music, and special effects make us wrinkle up our noses because it’s just not necessary, is it?
Except when it is!
Emmerdale this week used the soaring, dramatic background music to amazing effect. The high shot of the ambulances heading to hospital made us catch our breath, and the paramedics on the radio saying someone had died put us on high alert. It was really clever storytelling and we loved it. We hold our hands up. We were wrong about this one! Totally converted to all this trickery.
Amy’s death was so sad (Credit: ITV)
Vanessa and Tracy finally get justice
We have long been bothered about how Kerry and Amy caused the death of Frank Clayton – Tracy and Vanessa’s dad – and just got away with it. And so, watching both women fight to save Amy was really moving. It was Tracy who got Amy out of the water, and they both held her tight after she was freed from the ice.
And then Amy died. She actually went and died. And now we definitely think justice has been done.
Nate is in the lake (Credit: ITV)
Nate’s in the water!
And while we’re on the subject of Amy, we can’t ignore what she saw in the lake. She saw NATE! We knew he was dead! We knew he wouldn’t have just swanned off to Shetland without even responding when Zak died. The question is, will a distraught and grieving Matty remember what his wife told him before she passed away?
And then right at the very end of Friday’s episode there was a dark figure lurking beside the water, watching the crime scene investigators drive away. Was this the murderer? Was it John Sugden? Or are we just supposed to think it’s John when really it was someone else entirely? We’re gripped by this twist!
Cain has broken Moira’s heart (Credit: ITV)
Moira’s heartbreak in our Emmerdale review
Moira’s bleak acceptance of Cain cheating was absolutely heartbreaking. Almost like she’d been waiting for this to happen. We really felt for her. Right up until the point she went storming round to Ruby’s to shout at her. She knew what had happened. She knew how damaged and vulnerable Ruby was, but she still had to give her a piece of her mind. It’s totally on-brand for Moira, but it just seemed a bit unfair.
Chas proposed to Liam in his hospital bed (Credit: ITV)
Emmerdale review: Happy ever after?
We have to admit we weren’t always totally on-board with the much-married Chas hooking up with the much-married Dr Liam. But Liam’s proposal “you’re the ping to my pong” made us laugh, and then Chas proposing in hospital made us teary (yes, again – it’s been an emotional week).
We almost feel like everything in Chas’s life has led to this point. Gordon Livesy. Carl King. Cameron Murray. Al Chapman. All those bad decisions have got her to here, where she’s ready to marry Liam. And all Liam’s heartbreak – losing Leanna’s mum and then Leanna herself – has led to this. Maybe this is a happy ending for them both?
Stop whining, Steph (Credit: ITV)
Give it a rest, Steph
Our dislike of sulky Steph continued this week when she was – once more – completely vile to her mum (while living in her house, drinking her wine and working for Caleb). She is like a moody teenager in a 30-something’s body and she needs to learn how to read the room.
While we totally get Ruby’s determination to protect her daughter from the awful truth about her parentage, we think it’s time Steph was told. We’re hazy on the biology stuff but we reckon there could be repercussions for Steph’s health, for any children she might have in the future. It feels an important thing to know. Plus it might stop her whining for 30 seconds and that’s got to be a good thing.
Same time next week, lads? (Credit: ITV)
Too many men in Emmerdale?
This week’s Emmerdale was everything a soap should be – emotional, entertaining, dramatic, full of memorable moments both big and small. But there is one thing that is slightly niggling at us. And that’s the fact that all three of the deaths this week were women. How Take A Vow can continue without Suzy and Leyla is anyone’s guess!
At the moment, Emmerdale feels a bit men-heavy, with the toxic masculinity of Caleb, Mack, Cain and Aaron all hanging heavily over the village. Maybe we need another crash – with the fellas in danger this time!
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Charity Dingle is a good person – pretty much. And yet, as she pointed out earlier this week in Emmerdale, she’s killed quite a few people now!
And she’s even been in prison for murder, though to be fair, she didn’t actually do that particular crime.
“Why do I keep killing people?” Charity asked Mack in an emotional episode.
So we thought we’d take a look at the people whose lives she’s taken – in a roundabout way
Charity shot Damon accidentally (Credit: ITV)
Charity killed Damon Harris
Damon ‘Harry’ Harris was Chloe’s gangster dad. He inserted himself back in Chloe’s life when her relationship with Mackenzie Boyd fell apart.
When Damon discovered Mack had left Chloe to die in the car accident – choosing to rescue Charity instead – he was furious.
Desperate for revenge, he kidnapped Mack and held him hostage for days. Charity was convinced something was wrong, though and tracked him down. In the confrontation that followed, Damon threatened to shoot Mack. Charity tried to stop him and accidentally shot him instead!
Suzy was killed instantly in the crash (Credit: ITV)
And Suzy Merton
Of course we all know the drama of this week’s episodes that left Suzy dead. On Valentine’s Day, Charity was driving the limo full of over-excited women to their night out. But as she headed down the dark country lanes, Noah stepped out in front of the car!
WHAT? What on earth was Charity’s son doing in a daze in the middle of the road? We still don’t know, but we do know that Charity swerved to avoid him, lost control of the huge car and plunged into an icy lake.
Suzy was killed instantly in the collision.
Poor Leyla died on the way to hospital (Credit: ITV)
Charity killed Leyla Harding in Emmerdale
Poor Leyla was a victim of the same collision, though she didn’t die instantly. She was stabbed with a broken glass as the car came to rest in the ice, and it took her a little while to notice what had happened.
Leyla was alive when the paramedics arrived but she had lost so much blood that she died in the ambulance on the way to hospital. In heartbreaking scenes, her medical student son Jacob tried to resuscitate his mum, only to be pulled away by the doctor.
Amy was the third victim of the limo crash (Credit: ITV)
Another death on Charity’s hands as Amy Barton passed away
The week wasn’t done with deaths after Suzy and Leyla. Despite fighting hard and waking up long enough to utter “Nate, underwater,” Amy Barton did not make it.
She had fallen under the ice while trying to escape the limo. Tracy had gone to pull her out and drag her to safety, but Amy was suffering severe hypothermia. Amy was rushed to hospital where they tried to gradually warm her up.
However her heart just couldn’t take it and to the devastation of her husband, Matty, mum, Kerry, and son, Kyle, Amy died.
Charity now has three deaths in a week on her hands.
Chris framed Charity for his own death (Credit: ITV/Shutterstock)
But Charity didn’t kill Chris Tate
Chris and Charity were happy together for a little while. Their marriage was fiery and it definitely had its ups and downs, but they stuck together until Charity rekindled her romance with Cain. That was the final straw for Chris.
So when he found out he had a fatal brain tumour, he began to plot. Knowing he only had a few months to live, Chris decided to take vicious revenge on his cheating wife.
He was going to kill himself and frame Charity for the crime!
The plan worked. Chris asked Charity round to reconcile and she came as he asked. He made sure her fingerprints were on a champagne glass filled with poison, and even made a secret phonecall to the police. As he collapsed and died on the floor his last word was “whore”! That’s brutal!
Charity was arrested, tried and sent to prison for Chris’s murder. She gave birth to baby Noah in jail. But Zoe Tate – Chris’s sister – knew the truth. She agreed to sign a statement saying Chris killed himself if Charity gave her Noah.
The deal was done, Zoe handed over the statement and the £10k Charity had asked for and Ms Dingle walked free.
But eventually she fought to get Noah back and that £10k was burned by a disgusted Debbie.
Charity didn’t have the cash, but she did have her freedom and her son.
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In the latest Classic Emmerdale spoilers for episodes airing on ITV3 on Friday February 21, Cain puts his kidnap plan into action but Chas isn’t happy, and the Sinclairs admit all their worries.
These episodes originally aired September 18 and 19 2006.
Cain’s holding Sadie and Tom at gunpoint (Credit: ITV/Shutterstock)
Gun drama!
Tom takes his chance to escape and grab Cain’s gun. But when he points the weapon at Cain he’s shocked to realise it’s not loaded!
Cain overpowers him and drags both Tom and Sadie into the car. When Sadie comes round, Tom tells her he knows she’s working with Cain. What will Sadie say?
Chas gets involved
Elsewhere, Carl begs Chas not to leave him. She listens to his pleas and together they go to look for Tom. They’re shocked to find both their cars abandoned and Sadie’s house ransacked.
Back at Home Farm the family are shocked when they get a chilling phone call from a panicked Sadie. As they hear Tom’s screams in the background, the Kings know this is serious.
Classic Emmerdale: Sinclair sadness
Meanwhile, Perdy admits to Grayson that she’s now had five miscarriages and mixed in with her grief is her worry about how Rosemary will react.
He comforts her and tells her it doesn’t matter what his mum thinks. But soon Rosemary confronts them and gets them both to admit their secrets – the miscarriages and the money problems.
Chas takes charge! (Credit: ITV/Shutterstock)
Chas on the warpath in Classic Emmerdale
Later, Matthew and Carl guess that Cain’s the kidnapper. Chas steps in and tells them to let her deal with it and they agree.
She tracks down Cain but he denies he’s involved. Chas isn’t convinced though. Meanwhile, at Home Farm, Sadie calls and at Cain’s command, she demands a £5million ransom! The Kings hear her screaming before the line goes dead.
At the Dingles’, Zak and Lisa are shocked when the police turn up looking for Cain. They race over to Home Farm where they’re even more shocked to find out about the kidnap and hear that Chas was the one to call in the police!
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Nate Robinson left Emmerdale back in the autumn when he went to work in Shetland.
Or so we thought.
Now in a shocking twist (that lots of fans predicted!) we have discovered that Nate is actually dead. He’s trapped beneath the ice in the same frozen lake the limo plunged into in this week’s dramatic episodes.
It’s a lot to take in. So while we get our heads round it all, we thought we’d do a quick recap of everything Nate got up to in his time in the village.
It looks like Nate really is dead (Credit: ITV/EI)
Nate Robinson arrives in Emmerdale
Way back in 2019, Rhona met Nate in a club and they shared a kiss. A few days later she was horrified to bump into him in the village after he’d landed a job at Butler’s. There was a bit of a to-do when Rhona’s then-boyfriend Pete Barton found out about the kiss, but it was all smoothed over and Nate started work at the farm.
He was a hit with the local ladies
Nate began seeing Amy Wyatt but it was Moira Dingle who really caught his eye. The chemistry between the pair was sizzling! Not surprisingly, Nate seemed to take an instant dislike to Cain and he took a lot of delight in telling Moira she could do better.
Nate and Moira’s affair in Emmerdale
In summer 2019, Moira finally gave into temptation and kissed her hunky farmhand. She told him it was a mistake but just a month or so later, she they slept together. And when Cain went to visit Debbie in Aberdeen, things got even steamier between the pair.
Spotted!
When Amy confessed to Nate that she and Kerry were responsible for the fire that killed Frank Clayton, Nate wanted to know more.
He spoke to Tracy about it but when Kerry spotted him, she thought he was revealing all about their involvement. Amy kicked off and Nate stormed away.
Wanting to calm it all down, Kerry went to speak to Nate, only to spot him in bed with Moira! He blackmailed Kerry, telling her he’d not go to the police if she kept quiet about his affair. Kerry agreed on condition he broke it off with Amy.
The affair was revealed and so was Nate’s secret! (Credit: ITV)
Cain takes revenge
By the October of that year, things were heating up with Moira and Nate, but Cain was on to them! He lured them both on a boat trip and confronted them. The men ended up fighting, only for Nate to reveal that he was Cain’s long-lost son! Cain hadn’t even known he existed. As the pair tussled, the boat was rocked by an explosion – but fortunately everyone on board made it to safety. Which was more than we could say for Cain and Moira’s marriage – that was definitely over!
Newcomer Nate seduced Moira (Credit: ITV)
Nate Robinson takes revenge in Emmerdale!
Nate thought Cain had known his mum Cara was pregnant and had abandoned them both. Seducing Moira had been part of his revenge plan.
But Faith – Cain’s mum – explained that hadn’t been the case. It took a while, and the rest of the Dingles welcoming him into the family, but Nate eventually managed to forgive his dad – and his dad forgave him, too.
Nate revealed that Cain was his dad (Credit: ITV)
Nate Robinson: Falling for Tracy
In early 2020, Tracy Metcalfe began dating Nate. The pair quickly got serious and by the summer Tracy was pregnant. During her pregnancy Nate was framed for a hit and run accident on Moira.
It turned out the real culprit was Jamie Tate, but for many complicated reasons – mostly to protect his aunt, Belle Dingle, Nate took the blame. Luckily he avoided a prison sentence so he was there when his daughter Frankie was born.
Tracy’s PND
Not long after Frankie was born, Tracy began acting strangely. She was distant and moody. Nate was trying to support her, and he proposed – Tracy accepted but she was really struggling.
The very next day, she went missing with little Frankie. Fortunately, Nate’s grandmother Faith found her and realised she had severe post-natal depression. Both Tracy and Frankie went to a mother and baby unit to get treatment. When she returned, though, it wasn’t all plain sailing and Nate found it difficult.
Nate and Tracy rekindled their romance briefly but she was engaged to someone else (Credit: ITV)
Nate cheats on Tracy in Emmerdale
On a night out with Mack, Nate met a woman called Fiona Murphy. It was just a one-night stand, but he was horrified when she arrived in the village as the new girlfriend of his sister-in-law Vanessa!
Obviously the secret was out. Tracy was devastated and took a job in Nottingham.
Happily ever after did not last long for Nate and Tracy (Credit: ITV)
Nate and Naomi
Newly single Nate started a romance with Naomi Walters. But as it turned out he was way too boring for wild Naomi! He wasn’t that boring, though, because when Tracy returned briefly, she and Nate hooked up.
But she revealed she was engaged to someone else and slioped off back to Nottingham. Nate and Naomi split too. He had a brief fling with Chloe Harris. But he was hiding a secret…
Nate and Tracy’s wedding in Emmerdale
In the summer of 2023, Nate was acting strangely. Cain and Moira thought he was up to something and followed him to the town hall, where they spotted Tracy in a wedding dress. Worried Nate was going to try to stop her wedding, they bundled him into their car.
But it turned out HE was supposed to be marrying Tracy. They eventually tied the knot and settled down together in Emmerdale.
Dodgy decisions
Suffering from money troubles, Nate began working for his old friend Corey Sanderson. He got a job as a chauffeur for a gangster called Harry but when he was asked to shift some guns, Nate panicked and got rid of them.
Luckily, Caleb stepped in to help get Nate off the hook.
Tracy and Caleb should never have gone there (Credit: ITV)
Caleb and Tracy
Meanwhile. sparks flew between Caleb and Tracy and the pair were soon having a torrid affair. Ruby revealed all at Belle’s wedding reception and not surprisingly, Nate and Tracy split. It was very acrimonious, but slowly Nate and Tracy began talking again.
In September 2024, Nate landed a job in Shetland. Tracy and Frankie were going to join him but events overtook their plans. Moira was acting strangely with her brain tumour – though she didn’t know that yet – and she tried to kiss Nate. Caleb saw it, told Cain – and Tracy. And everything fell apart. Cain attacked Nate, while Tracy announced she wasn’t going to Shetland after all.
But now it seems he was in the lake all along! Nate’s made a few enemies in his time but surely none that hated him enough to kill him?
Nate was discovered by Amy Barton who fell under the ice into the water below. She had been trying to get out of the limo she’d been travelling in that had crashed on to a frozen lake.
The ice cracked beneath her and she fell in, only to be terrified to see an arm in there with her. The arm was wearing a distinctive friendship bracelet, like Frankie makes, and that Nate was wearing when he was last seen.
Amy uttered Nate’s name in hospital as she fought for her life, confirming it was him she saw, but when will his body be found?
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In the latest Classic Emmerdale spoilers for episodes airing on ITV3 on Thursday February 20, Cain is losing his temper all over the place, Sadie’s plan backfires and Perdy gets devastating news.
These episodes originally aired September 15 and 17 2006.
Cain’s furious with Sadie (Credit: ITV/Shutterstock)
Sadie’s plan backfires
Sadie arranges another meeting with Tom, to put the next part of her plan into action.
But elsewhere, Debbie has clocked that Cain’s spending a lot of time with ice maiden Sadie and she’s not impressed. So she tells her dad everything about Sadie’s involvement in Jasmine’s abortion.
Unsurprisingly, Cain is livid, and when Sadie gets home she finds her place completely trashed. Cain’s there, lurking, and he attacks Sadie, accusing her of killing his child. He tells her the kidnap is off.
Rosemary catches Zak red-handed
Meanwhile during the shoot at Home Farm things are going well, until Rosemary catches Zak red-handed just as he’s about to seize the kill.
Cain’s fuming in Classic Emmerdale
Later, Sadie tries to convince Tom that they can frame Cain for the house collapse, but as soon as they reach an agreement, they’re interrupted by Cain himself! He’s furious – again – and launches himself at them both, attacking them. And then, if that’s not enough, he kidnaps both Sadie and Tom!
Meanwhile, Matthew and Carl are worried when their dad doesn’t answer his phone. It’s Chas’s turn to be annoyed when Carl tells her Tom’s gone to finalise a deal that will frame Cain for the house collapse. She rages at Carl for not telling her the truth!
The Sinclairs are all keeping secrets (Credit: ITV/Shutterstock)
Sinclair secrets in Classic Emmerdale
Rosemary pays Zak to tell her how much money Grayson lost at the shoot. But Grayson finds out and he blackmails Zak into telling his meddling mother that he only lost a grand rather than ten!
Meanwhile, Perdy suffers a devastating miscarriage and can’t face Rosemary.
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In the latest Classic Emmerdale spoilers for episodes airing on ITV3 on Wednesday February 19, there’s drama for Rodney but relief as Kelly stands by him, Sadie makes some demands and Zak plans Poachfest 2006!
These episodes originally aired September 13 and 14 2006.
Rodney’s in trouble
There’s drama for Rodney when the bailiffs show up and seize his house! But he reassures Kelly and Paul that everything’s going to be fine. Except when he goes to his car there’s a shock in store as he realises the money is missing.
Diane gets a shock in Classic Emmerdale
Louise takes great pleasure in telling Diane the identity of the person who’s buying into the Woolpack – it’s Val! How will Diane react?
Sadie’s got some demands for Tom (Credit: ITV/Shutterstock)
Sadie’s playing dirty
Cain gives Sadie an ultimatum – she’s got one more day to come up with a plan to kidnap Tom. But she’s putting up a fight!
She secretly records Cain confessing to sabotaging the show house and causing it to collapse. She takes the recording to Tom and tells him if he goes to the police, she’ll destroy all the evidence. Sadie tells him she’ll be in touch to let him know what he has to do to get his family off the hook.
Kelly pledges to stand by Rodney despite his troubles (Credit: ITV/Shutterstock)
Kelly pledges her support in Classic Emmerdale
Later, Kelly’s horrified to discover Rodney has slept in his car. She offers him her ring back and tells him she’s standing by him. Rodney refuses the ring – he’s just delighted to have Kelly back by his side.
Zak makes plans!
Meanwhile, money is still causing problems for the Dingles but Zak’s got a plan. He organises a huge poach on the Home Farm estate. Del refuses to join in as she’s already in trouble with the police, but the rest of the family agree to pitch in. Poachfest 2006 is on!
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