Emmerdale: Caleb and Nicky’s true identities are FINALLY revealed in shock twist

Caleb and Nicky’s true identities were finally revealed during Thursday’s Emmerdale.

The dramatic installment exposed Home Farm nanny Nicky (Lewis Cope) as Leyla’s (Roxy Shahidi) stalker.

And if that wasn’t enough, Nicky was also revealed to be the son of Caleb (Will Ash).

In a Q&A released after the episode aired, William Ash who plays Caleb and Lewis Cope who plays Nicky, teased what may come after the shock twist.

Will said: ‘It’s nice to have their big secret out in the open. There’s been a lot of people speculating, even people coming up to me in the street and asking: “What’s Caleb up to?” and, “Why is he in the village?”

‘It’s good for that part of the story to be out there, great for the audience so they don’t start losing interest in that thread.’

Lewis added: ‘But it’s almost just the start too. Finding out that Caleb and Nicky are related. But why are they there? What are they up to? Do they succeed? How does it end? That’s all going to be really exciting stuff too! 

‘We’ve started to film some of the scenes of us working together, where you find out more details, and they’ve been great for us to play.

‘We haven’t had many scenes together before because of the nature of the story and so now it’s brilliant to start this new chapter.’

Lewis continued ‘Yes, you start to see the reasons why they are in the village, then you start seeing the relationship between the two of them and how they live, which is really interesting.’

Will chimed in: ‘The audience will start to see more layers to them and little secrets that they’ve got which adds complexity to their relationship. That’s been really fun to play.’

When asked if they knew the storyline when they joined the show, Will exclaimed, ‘I did! I knew that Frank Tate was Caleb’s dad and Faith his mum.

‘Plus I knew that Caleb’s son had got a job at Home Farm which Caleb had pushed him to do to place him in that world to find out as much as possible about it.’

Lewis chipped in: ‘I thought I was coming in as a love interest to Gabby, it was further down the line I got the scripts and it started to reveal itself for me.

‘It was a nice surprise as I wasn’t preempting anything, I could just look at what was on the script and make that work.’

Will concluded: ‘It could be a bit of a burden for them both as there’s a foot in both families. It’s really clever that they’ve used that device to see how much disruption these characters can cause.

‘There’s always been that clash between the Tates and the Dingles but it will really ramp it up now! It’s really big what Caleb and Nicky are attempting to do so there are a lot of fireworks ready to go off.’