Joe Tate has stolen Caleb Miligan’s kidney in Emmerdale because he needed a living donor and Caleb was the only blood relative he had after Noah Dingle proved not to be a match.

But given Joe and Caleb have barely crossed paths since Joe’s been back in the village and Noah doesn’t seem to have much to do with Caleb either, we were a little confused about how they fit together. So we thought we’d take a look at the twisty-turny Tate family tree and work it all out, so you don’t have to!
Caleb is Frank’s secret son (Credit: ITV)

How is Caleb a Tate?

Caleb’s dad was Frank Tate. He was Kim’s husband. He’d been married before he met Kim, to a woman called Jean. They had two children – Chris and Zoe.

What no one knew back then was that Chris also had two other children. A son called Liam Hammond, who was born a couple of years before Chris, and Caleb Miligan, who was about eight years younger than Zoe.

Chris and Zoe grew up with their dad, while Liam and Caleb grew up elsewhere and unaware that they were part of the Tate dynasty.

In 1996, Kim gave birth to Frank’s fifth child, Jamie Tate.
Jamie returned to the village a few years ago (Credit: ITV)

Joe came along in Emmerdale

Just before Jamie was born, Chris’s first wife Rachel gave birth to his son, who they named Joseph. And later – in 2004 – after Chris had died, Charity had Noah, who never met his dad.

There are other relatives around too. Zoe’s daughter Jean was born in 2003 and as far as we know, still lives in New Zealand, where Joe grew up with Zoe as his guardian.

Jamie – who’s also Joe’s half-uncle – is around somewhere and so are his children, Millie and Thomas (who lives at Home Farm with his mum Gabby).
Has Noah had a lucky escape? (Credit: ITV)

How are Caleb and Joe blood related in Emmerdale and where does Noah fit in?

By our reckoning that makes Joe and Noah half-brothers – they shared a dad in Chris.

And it makes Caleb – who was Chris’s half brother – Joe’s half-uncle.

We’re no doctors but we’re thinking the chances of any of these distantly related Tates being a match for Joe are small. But there was no one else for him to ask. His mum Rachel was murdered by her second husband Graham Clark. And her brother, Mark, was killed in the Beckindale air disaster in 1993.
The relations are trying to be cordial – but with ulterior motives (Credit: ITV)

So Caleb, Noah and Joe are all related in Emmerdale – but will the truth come out?

Caleb is edging ever closer to discovering what happened to his kidney really. He thinks he was stabbed and Joe saved his life, but he had to lose a kidney. He hasn’t yet pieced the puzzle together to uncover that Joe was responsible for it all!

But now Joe is back in town he is taking an extreme interest in Caleb’s affair, especially after Steph blurted out that they weren’t related. Some fans think it is Joe’s insurance policy so he can blackmail Caleb into keeping quiet should he find out about the organ harvesting.

Caleb is suspicious over Joe’s interest and invites him for lunch. Joe brings Noah as a distraction so Joe can do some digging. But then Joe leaves his coat with his pills in the pocket behind. When he collects the coat, the medication falls out and Steph and Caleb are suspicious.

Caleb later gets Noah alone and asks questions about Joe. Noah reveals he had visions of Joe when he was spiked. The cogs starts to whir and Caleb makes a realisation. Will he catch Joe out?