How Joe and Caleb are related in Emmerdale - and where Noah fits in
Is it actually worth Joe nicking Caleb's kidney?Noah Tate is ready to leave the village for a new career abroad, but a recent conversation with Joe and Caleb and us thinking!
We thought we’d take a look at the twisty-turny Tate family tree and remind ourselves just how they’re all related, so you don’t have to!
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 Frank 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.
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).
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.
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