{"id":37988,"date":"2025-04-29T17:23:22","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T16:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tvguide.co.uk\/emmerdale-insider\/?p=37988"},"modified":"2025-04-29T18:11:57","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T17:11:57","slug":"ned-porteous-future-as-emmerdale-sets-up-joe-tate-whodunnit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tvguide.co.uk\/emmerdale-insider\/news\/ned-porteous-future-as-emmerdale-sets-up-joe-tate-whodunnit\/","title":{"rendered":"Ned Porteous\u2019 future as Emmerdale sets up Joe Tate whodunnit"},"content":{"rendered":"

Emmerdale has confirmed that Joe Tate<\/a> will be at the heart of an upcoming whodunnit<\/a> as he\u2019s attacked at a Home Farm birthday party \u2013 but is Ned Porteous leaving the soap?<\/p>

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Joe has made no shortage of enemies in recent months, from stealing Caleb\u2019s kidney to his marriage-destroying affair with Dawn Fletcher. There\u2019s also the matter of the three women killed in a limo crash which he was indirectly responsible for.<\/p>\n

The upcoming attack has led fans to wonder whether he might be leaving the soap. What does the future hold for Joe Tate?<\/p>\n

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Is Ned Porteous leaving Emmerdale?<\/h2>\n

Joe returned to Emmerdale late last year, kicking off months of intense speculation as to what he was after. As it turned out, seriously ill Joe needed a kidney \u2013 which he eventually got from Caleb.<\/p>\n

What the soap neglected to say was how long actor Ned<\/a> would be sticking around. It\u2019s been four months since his return, so if he is on a shorter-term contract, then he could potentially leave at any time.<\/p>

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