Ruby Fox-Miligan

Ruby Fox-Miligan (née Fox) is the wife of Caleb Miligan and the mother of Steph and Nicky Miligan.
==Biography==
===1976-2023: Early life===
Ruby Fox was born to Anthony and Helen Fox in 1976. As a teenager, Ruby embarked on a relationship with Caleb Miligan but Ruby's family disapproved of their relationship as they were a well off family and Caleb grew up in care. When Ruby was sixteen she became pregnant with Caleb’s child and her parents tried to force her to have an abortion. She refused and ran away with Caleb, giving birth to their daughter Steph Miligan in January 1993. The couple married on 9th April 1996 and had a son named Nicky in September 2000 who they raised in Newcastle. However, Ruby and Caleb's marriage was marred by cheating - Caleb even cheated on Ruby the day after they got married - and by 2023 the couple were living apart.
===2024 to present: Arrival in Emmerdale===
Ruby arrived in the village on 25th January 2024. Unbeknownst to her at the time, her estranged husband Caleb was having an affair with his nephew's wife, Tracy Robinson. Tracy's husband Nate Robinson barged into Apartment One, Mill Cottage expecting to find Caleb and Tracy together but instead interrupted Caleb and Ruby kissing. Ruby's son Nicky was excited to see his mother but Caleb was still adamant they were separated.
After her arrival, Ruby got along well with her sister-in-law, Moira Dingle and Caleb's sister, Chas Dingle. Ruby even offered to get Chas into a private clinic when she announced she had breast cancer. However, Ruby was soon shown to be unhappy with how close Caleb was to his new family and started to cause trouble. She threw a dinner party at Mill Cottage in early February, inviting Cain Dingle, his wife Moira and Nate and Tracy. Ruby alienated Cain and Moira by bringing up Moria's previous affair with Nate, Cain's son. Moira told Ruby to shut up but Ruby instead made fun of Moira's Scottish accent and played the whole thing off as a joke. Afterwards, Caleb made it clear to Ruby that if she really wanted their marriage to work she had to be nice to his family. Ruby listened and apologised to Moira the next day.
On 14th February, Ruby overheard Caleb and Tracy discussing their affair outside Mill Cottage but didn't say anything. The next day, she and Caleb attended the wedding of Belle Dingle and Tom King. Ruby made a scene during the service by laughing when Belle's full name (Tinkerbelle) was used. Later at the reception in the HIDE Ruby and Caleb were sat next to Nate and Tracy. Ruby stood up to make a speech and announced to the whole room that Caleb and Tracy were sleeping together. After Caleb was punched by Nate, he and Ruby left the reception. The next day Caleb and Ruby argued about her ruining the wedding. Ruby asked Caleb why he had slept with her if he and Tracy were together, to which Caleb cruelly retorted he only did it out of sport and boredom. Ruby then angrily packed her bags and told Caleb she was leaving. He stopped her at the door and apologised, they kissed and spent the night together. 
Over the next few weeks, Ruby continues to show nothing but contempt for her husband's family, causing more issues between her and Caleb. When Charity refuses to serve her in the pub and Cain orders her to leave she refuses. Cain threatens to make her leave, but she knees him in the groin before Caleb drags her away. She is also still jealous over Caleb's feelings for Tracy Robinson and tells him if they are really going to have a fresh start then he has to make sure Tracy knows it's over. She gets Caleb to ruin Tracy's presentation to open a nursery by telling her potential investors that Tracy is an ex-prostitute. Later that day Dawn Fletcher confronts Ruby over her treatment of Tracy and threatens her but Ruby just mocks Dawn for also being an ex-prostitute. That night she and Caleb argue as she says he shouldn't care what his family thinks. He calls her sick and says he hates who he is with her. Ruby throws a glass at him, which hits a mirror.
A couple of weeks later, Caleb and Ruby try to attend a party for Chas in the pub. Cain tells them to leave but they refuse. Caleb and Ruby get into another argument as she says they should just go. Ruby ends up elbowing Chas in the chest as she tries to calm her down, hurting Chas, who had just had a mastectomy. Caleb tells Ruby to go as he wants to stay with his sister, so Ruby leaves. 
In April, Ruby tries to make amends with Caleb by endearing herself to his family. She delivers air fryers to Chas, Moira and Sam Dingle as a peace offering. Cain is unhappy with this and smashes the air fryers in front of Ruby outside Wishing Well Cottage. On 30th April, Ruby manages to get Cain and Caleb in the pub together for Caleb's birthday. They sit down together and have a pint but the moment is ruined when Ruby and Nicky drunkenly sing to them, causing Cain to storm out.
In early May, Moira splashes Ruby while driving her car through a puddle. Ruby takes this seriously and an escalating feud starts between the women. Ruby tells people Moria and her family have Scabies, to which Moira retaliates by dumping cow manure outside Ruby's front door. On 3rd May, it all comes to a head on a back road near Butler's Farm. Moira and Ruby block the single-track road with their cars as neither are willing to give way. Eventually they are forced to move when Will Taylor comes through needing to get to the hospital to see his grandson. The two women agree to a truce after this.
A few weeks later, Ruby's son, Nicky is in a car accident and ends up in coma. Ruby refuses to leave his bedside as she wonders why he was so stupid as to drive drunk, with Caleb there to comfort her. However, the police then inform her and Caleb that Nicky's injuries are consistent with him being on the passenger side, not driving. Caleb and Ruby soon discover that Ethan Anderson was the one driving, and that he left Nicky to die after the crash. Despite Ethan turning himself in, Ruby decides to take matters into her own hands. On 22nd May she runs Ethan down with her car and leaves him in the middle of the road. He later stumbles into the village and collapses, but refuses to go to a hospital. Ruby tells Caleb what she did after he questions her about the damage to the car. He tells her it was a crazy idea and she shouldn't have done it, but covers it up by having the car fixed. 
On 28th May, Ethan dies suddenly and everyone, including Ruby, assumes it must be related to the hit and run the week before. Ruby is racked with guilt, but Caleb convinces her to wait for the coroner to determine Ethan's cause of death. However, Ruby is convinced she killed Ethan and goes to his father, Charles Anderson to confess but before she can, he tells her that Ethan died of a hereditary heart condition, nothing to do with the crash. She ends up telling him about her part in the hit and run anyway, but Charles is so broken by his son's death he doesn't care. 
In July, Nicky and Caleb argue when Nicky asks for more responsibility at the car hire firm. Ruby tells Caleb to give Nicky a chance, but Caleb just insults Nicky. After Nicky storms off, Ruby chastises Caleb for his treatment of their son and tells him all Nicky wants is for his father to be proud of him. Caleb listens but it is too little too late as Nicky announces he is leaving the village with his boyfriend, Suni Sharma. Ruby and Caleb both try to convince him to stay, but Nicky doesn't give in. He left the village on 4th July, which devastated Ruby. 
In August, it was revealed that Ruby was paying Rose Jackson to destroy Will Taylor's marriage to Kim Tate. Rose did manage to seduce Will, but she told Ruby that she valued her relationship with daughter, Dawn Fletcher, more than money and stopped working for her. This scuppered Ruby's scheme but Kim still wanted revenge. She assumed it was Caleb who employed Rose and burned down his car hire business, Longbrook Private Hire in retaliation. Feeling guilty, Ruby told Caleb about her plan and explained that it was the reason Kim destroyed Longbrook. She thought Caleb would be angry with her but instead he took Ruby to an abandoned warehouse. He explained that she had been wrong in going after Kim's marriage because the only thing she valued was her land and money. He then told Ruby he was going to build his own empire right next door to show Kim that she wasn't on top anymore, and he would use the insurance money from the fire to do it. 
In September, it was revealed that Caleb had been in contact with Ruby's estranged mother, Helen Fox before her death. Ruby found out when a nurse called her on Helen's behalf, only to find she was twenty minutes too late and Helen was gone. Ruby went in to see the body and wondered out loud what Helen had wanted after thirty years. The nurse mentioned Ruby's husband visiting Helen and when Ruby asked Caleb, he said he was protecting her and lied, saying that Helen called Ruby a "little whore" when they spoke. He also didn't tell Ruby about the £100,000 he got from her mother in exchange for him bringing Ruby to see her. Ruby found out about this as well as she and Caleb were co-executors of Helen's will and her lawyer told her about the transaction. Ruby was furious with Caleb, saying that he had denied her ever knowing what her mother wanted. They also found out that Helen had left everything to their daughter, Steph but Caleb and Ruby hadn't seen her in over a decade. In early November Ruby left the village for a few weeks to visit Nicky.
On 15th November, Steph arrived in the village to collect her inheritance. Ruby was happy to see her daughter again, but Steph insisted she wasn't staying. Ruby got Caleb to leave them alone and she tried to talk Steph round, but without success. They ended up arguing with Steph saying Ruby never loved her and Ruby slapping her. Steph stormed out as Ruby tried to apologise. Eventually, Caleb was able to convince Steph to stay but this also meant Anthony Fox, Ruby's father arrived in the village. He and Steph were apparently close and Anthony came with her to the village, much to Ruby's horror.
==Residences==
Address 	Duration
Apartment One, Mill Cottage	25th January 2024 to present
==Background information==
*Ruby was portrayed by Rachel Alsop in a flashback to Ruby's 16th birthday in Episode 10161/10162 (12th December 2024).
==See also==
*Full list of appearances
Category:Emmerdale characters
Category:Current characters
Category:Characters played by different actors
Category:1976 births
Category:2024 debuts
Category:Miligan family
Category:Tate family
Category:Fox family
Category:1996 marriages
Category:Residents of Apartment One, Mill Cottage