Ruby Miligan (Beth Cordingly) found herself connecting with Bear Wolf (Joshua Richards) during tonight’s episode of Emmerdale.

Bear spent the start of this week being questioned by DS Walsh, following his confession that he killed Ray Walters (Joe Absolom).

He faced a particularly large hurdle halfway through though due to Walsh believing that Bear wasn’t the only person involved in disposing of Ray’s body.

She brought Dylan Penders (Fred Kettle) and Paddy Kirk (Dominic Brunt) in for questioning as well, but they stuck to the story and continued to tell the detective that Bear murdered and covered Ray’s death up by himself.

The CPS granted Bear bail, which meant he was allowed to return home until the trial.

Paddy gently suggested to Bear in this evening’s instalment that they go to the café. He believed that it would help Bear see that no one in the village thinks he’s a bad man.

As they sat down, Bear immediately got overwhelmed at the amount of people in the building. A harmless comment by Lewis Barton (Bradley Riches) about Bear’s ankle tag, and one made by Vinny Dingle (Bradley Johnson) about him being a hero, then saw the character get up and leave.

Bear was found by Ruby at the Pavilion. With echoes of Paddy calling Bear’s name in the distance, Ruby sensed that the last thing Bear wanted to do was return home.

When Bear started talking about taking Ray’s life and the importance in facing consequences for your actions, Ruby started to allude to knowing a little bit about what Bear has been through.

When Ruby was a child, she was sexually abused by her father Anthony Fox. The evil man controlled Ruby for the majority of her life. In January 2025, Anthony died as a result of Ruby killing him.

Her ordeal isn’t the exact same as Bear’s, but she knows what it’s like to be controlled by a man, and to have that man stop you from living a life you deserve. Ruby said that if Bear doesn’t fight and ends up going to prison, Ray has still won.

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Ruby took Bear home, much to Paddy’s surprise. The character was left further taken aback when Bear told Ruby to sit down as he was making her a coffee. Bear even joked about not having the posh coffees Ruby likes.

He told Paddy and Ruby that he quite liked the life he had before Ray took him to the farm, and that he wouldn’t mind getting it back.

It was a lovely moment but most importantly it was hope, something Paddy and Bear haven’t seen in ages.

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Emmerdale’s Paddy Kirk (Dominic Brunt) is doing everything in his power to try and save his dad, but he can’t be in several different places at once.

Trying to protect Bear Wolf (Joshua Richards) from the realities of his actions has become a fulltime job for the vet.

Bear is still in a state of trauma from his experience of the human trafficking ring, followed by him accidentally killing his captor, Ray Walters (Joe Absolom). For weeks, Paddy battled to keep his dad from revealing his part in Ray’s death.

Paddy’s priority has remained his dad, even going up against Cain Dingle (Jeff Hordley) in the face of Cain trying to pry the truth from the frail old man to save his wife Moira Dingle (Natalie J Robb), Paddy firmly put his foot down to protect Bear.

What a waste of time that was. Ultimately, Bear couldn’t cope with his regret and sadness, and told DS Walsh everything. Well, almost everything. He kept secret the parts that Paddy and Dylan Penders (Fred Kettle) played in the body disposal.

Fragile Bear is heading for another bump in the road with Ray’s burial around the corner.

Dylan is also struggling with his complex emotions attached to Ray’s death and Laurel Thomas (Charlotte Bellamy) too is also battling her conscience. She decides Ray should have at least someone there.

For Paddy, Dylan, and Mandy, it’s the contrary and they try and keep it a secret from Bear for fear it may break him. Unfortunately for their best laid plans, Claudette Anderson (Flo Wilson) puts her size sixes in and lets the cat out of the bag.

So now Paddy must cope with a traumatised Bear insisting he attend the ceremony and neither Laurel or Claudette can talk him down.

Paddy doesn’t find out until afterwards though, and is left with the aftermath of the event. In response, he utterly loses his mind at Laurel and her reckless behaviour putting Bear at risk.

And he’s right, Bear rages at his son, revealing his fresh trauma and start of a new spiral.

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Laurel finds Bear drinking on his own and tries to get him to open up.

Actress Charlotte Bellamy shares that the pair have an unusual connection.

‘A really lovely sort of relationship starts to form between them that is kind of a connection. Of course, Bear sort of, a bit like the Stockholm Syndrome, kind of feels the same, like she does. So they’re both kind of conflicted with pain but also, she loved Ray and Bear loved Ray in a weird sort of way.’

But Bear’s struggles are deepening by the second.

Having not got the painkillers he needs from Manpreet Sharma (Rebecca Sarker), he heads to hospital with a cut hand on a mission to get what he needs. But with the state he’s in, chaos ensues. He’s dangerous without meaning to be, who will fall foul of Bear’s mental decline?

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EastEnders spoilers follow for Tuesday’s (February 17) episode which is now available to stream on BBC iPlayer.

Having put the past to bed once again, Chrissie Watts (Tracy-Ann Oberman) and Jake Moon (Joel Beckett) headed out of Walford together, ready for a fresh start.

In scenes reminiscent of their unexpected reunion and subsequent departure in 2024, the couple decided it was high time to look forward instead of back, leaving the Square in their rearview mirror.

Chrissie staged an unexpected return to screens back in December when it was confirmed that she was the mastermind behind the cruel campaign to destroy Zoe Slater (Michelle Ryan).

The former Queen Vic landlady was using Jasmine Fisher (Indeyarna Donaldson-Holness), who was subsequently revealed to be none other than Zoe’s biological daughter, to torment the Slater legend, still holding a grudge over what happened with Den (Leslie Grantham) two decades prior.

As fans will know, Chrissie served 19 years in prison for the murder of Den. She was released two years ago and used the opportunity to reunite with her former flame Jake, as they rode of the Walford for a new life together.

But Chrissie’s revenge mission against Zoe ultimately drove a wedge between her and Jake, who turned up in the Square earlier this month in search of his ex.

His comeback was a welcomed one for the Slater/Moon clan, given that Jake was long thought to be dead after a brush with Johnny Allen’s thugs in 2006.

But Jake was in for a shock of his own as he discovered that Kat (Jessie Wallace) suspected Chrissie of having murdered Anthony Trueman (Nicholas Bailey) and framing Zoe for the crime. Desperate for answers, he agreed to help track Chrissie down so that they could all finally get closure they needed.

Upon her latest comeback, Chrissie was appalled to learn of the wild accusations being made against her and instead pointed the finger instead at Jasmine who, as viewers know, did actually kill Anthony.

With such a theory going round in her head, Kat lured Jasmine back to Walford and Chrissie wasted little time in making her thoughts known, berating Jasmine for trying to pin the blame for the crime on her.

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But as Kat demanded that she be allowed to deal with the Jasmine situation alone, Chrissie decided it was time to move on once more.

Still feeling betrayed that Jake thought her guilty of Anthony’s murder, the former hairdresser decided to call the police on her beau, planning on spilling the beans about how he murdered his own brother.

Jake, however, had other ideas about how they spend their future as he got down on one knee and proposed. It’s somewhat of a full circle moment given that Jake proposed to Chrissie when she was in prison for Den’s murder two decades ago. At the time, Chrissie told him not to wait for her.

But flash-forward 21 years and Jake was down on his knee. The happy ending they never got was within touching distance.

Chrissie was taken aback by his unexpected move and, after giving it some thought, she accepted his proposal, as they drove out of Walford together once again.

After all they’ve been through, will the future be a happy one for Chrissie and Jake? What’s more, will we ever see them in Walford again?

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During Friday’s episode of Emmerdale, Bear Wolf (Joshua Richards) sat with a counsellor called Lucy, and began to speak about the horror he went through on Celia Daniels’ (Jaye Griffiths) farm.

Ever since Bear returned to the village, he’s struggled to completely see that what he went through was wrong. This is down to the high level of manipulation and abuse he suffered, which left left Bear believing that Celia was helping vulnerable people, and that Ray was his friend.

Paddy Kirk (Dominic Brunt) has tried to help his dad see the reality of what he went through, but he realised a couple of days ago that Bear wasn’t going to completely heal without some therapy from a professional.

Charles Anderson (Kevin Mathurin) then organised for Lucy to visit the village. As a victim of exploitation herself, Lucy knew exactly how to approach the session with Bear. She gently tried to steer him in the direction of seeing Ray as a monster, but it wasn’t easy.

This was because Bear spent a lot of time being plagued with visions of Ray. Whenever Lucy spoke the truth, Ray would appear as a figment of Bear’s imagination and counteract her comment.

A breakthrough happened when Bear opened up about his friend and fellow slave Anya, who died as a result of Celia and Ray failing to get her any medication for her ill health. Telling Lucy about Anya’s death saw Bear slowly start to realise that Ray most certainly wasn’t his friend.

The situation for Bear changed when Lucy called him a good man. Overwhelmed with the pressure of keeping his murderous secret, Bear fell apart and confessed to killing the man who kept him prisoner for months.

The instalment ended with a horrified Paddy watching his dad get into a police car. The beloved character has already been through so much, and it sadly isn’t over yet.

Calling Bear’s killing of Ray ‘poetic justice’, actor Joshua Richards recently opened up about the next part of Bear’s story, which will see him questioned by DS Walsh at first.

‘It sets off another dilemma, of course, because this isn’t the end of the horror. Horror continues’, he said.

Teasing what lies ahead in the coming days, Joshua added: ‘I think the police officer is particularly ruthless and obviously wants to get this crime sorted, but also wants to nail as many people as possible. I mean, her remit seems to be quite wide with Moira after Cain and after Paddy, after Dylan, after Bear. She doesn’t want one person, she wants everybody.’

DS Walsh will charge Bear with manslaughter. According to Joshua, his character believes he should face the consequences for his actions.

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‘I think in his mind, taking a life is taking a life, it’s a life for a life…even if it was in self-defence. He was almost the victim of a nervous breakdown and being practically insane at the time, but he still believes he should take the consequences.’

Joshua noted: ‘I think he has this mistaken sense of honour, and that he’s got to own up to what he did, even though he was totally unaware of what he did at the time he was doing it.

‘And it’s just this old-fashioned sort of “Well, I did it, therefore I should take the consequences.” It’s misguided and wrong, but he firmly believes that that’s the honourable thing to do.’

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This article contains spoilers for tonight’s (Monday, February 9) Coronation Street, which has not yet aired on TV but is available to watch now on YouTube and ITVX.

Ever since she first appeared in Corriedale, soap fans have been intrigued by mysterious Coronation Street newcomer Jodie Ramsey (Olivia Frances-Brown).

Over the past month, we’ve come to learn that she is Shona Platt’s (Julia Goulding) estranged half-sister, though beyond that, we haven’t had much to go on.

Jodie has remained very secretive about why she is back in Shona’s life, and lied to her sister about what brought her to the cobbles.

Viewers know that Jodie escaped the back of Emmerdale villain Graham Foster’s (Andrew Scarborough) van during the pile-up, though we have no idea how or why she ended up there.

Instead of revealing this to Shona, she made up an abusive partner to explain away her bruises. She even went so far as to attend a support group and listen to other women’s experiences, so that she could tell Shona a realistic story.

In tonight’s episode, Shona grew concerned that Jodie was sneaking off to meet with a man. Horrified at the possibility that it could be serial cheat Carl Webster (Jonathan Howard), Shona followed her sister.

She was shocked when they arrived at their destination, and Shona discovered that Jodie was visiting their dad in a care home.

Shona hadn’t seen their dad since she left home, and was stunned to find that he was in ill health.

Jodie assured her that he was having a bad day before finally opening up about how she’d been caring for him until it became too difficult for her to handle alone.

When Jodie attempted to introduce Shona to their dad, he grew distressed and started shouting about how Jodie was a liar and that ‘it wasn’t right’.

Once Jodie had ushered Shona out, Shona admitted that she wished she’d been there to help her, to which her little sister confessed that she felt the same, especially as she cared about Shona so much.

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When Jodie said goodbye to their dad, it became clear that perhaps there was more to the story than she’d let on, as she warned him not to mess things up for her with Shona.

The atmosphere turned sinister when Jodie reminded him that things hadn’t worked out well for him when they’d fallen out in the past.

What exactly happened between them, and how much more is Jodie hiding?

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