EXCLUSIVE: Emmerdale Star Beth Cordingly Drops THREE-WORD Bombshell Rumor About John Sugden’s MAJOR TWIST

Emmerdale star Beth Cordingly, who plays Ruby Fox-Milligan in the long running ITV soap, has admitted she had no idea her character’s murd3r of her abusive father Anthony Fox (Nicholas Day) would become an integral part of John Sugden’s (Oliver Farnsworth) recent rampage. Speaking exclusively to Express.co.uk at the Inside Soap Awards in London on Monday, September 29, the 48-year-old said: “I didn’t know. You never know that much in advance. But you always know they are storing stuff up and that it will be held over you by a certain character because the writers think much further ahead.”

John disposed of Anthony’s body,believing his then boyfriend Aaron Dingle (Danny Miller) had k!lled him. However a guilty Aaron told his mother Chas Dingle (Lucy Pargeter), and Ruby had involved her husband Caleb Miligan (Will Ash), meaning many of the Dingle clan were implicated in the crime. John used this to his advantage when Caleb and half-brother Cain Dingle (Jeff Hordley) discovered he was behind the murd3r of Cain’s son Nate Robinson (Jurrell Carter), threatening to tell the police where the body was, which would see them all jail3d.

To Cain’s fury, Caleb subsequently let John go in return for the location of the body, which Caleb has now moved to a location only known to him.

Asked if this was the last we would hear of the incriminating corpse, Beth laughed: “I very much hope so.” She also confessed the murd3r scene was “stressful” for her to play.

“It was quite stressful and when I was k!lling him, I’ve never k!lled anyone before obviously, so the only thing I could process was to do what you do when you’re k!lling a spider and I had to channel that into my kind of [rage],” she explained.

For the time being Ruby can relax knowing that no one can currently hold the k!lling over the family. However, treacherous John is now at large, so he could still return at some point to put a spanner in the works.

During his reign of terror, which included k!lling Nate, he also orchestrated chilling attacks on Chas, drugging her, smashing a brick through the window of The Woolpack, and tormenting both her and Liam Cavanagh (Johnny McPherson).

But John managed to cover his tracks, framing Ella Forster (Paula Lane) for everything. He also deliberately caused Jacob Gallagher to go into anaphylactic shock by ensuring he drank a coffee containing almond milk.

Fully aware of Jacob’s nut allergy, John did this so he could step in and save his life. In yet another sinister twist, John attacked Liam, believing he was Mackenzie Boyd (Lawrence Robb). He also held Mackenzie hostage in a bunker for several weeks.