Who remembers when Caleb from Emmerdale held the Coronation Street OAPs at gunpoint?
Will has played Cain’s half-brother Caleb since 2022 (Picture: ITV)
Soap fans have taken a trip down memory lane to a time when Emmerdale’s William Ash had a guest role in Coronation Street.
The actor, best known for his role as Cain Dingle’s (Jeff Hordley) estranged half-brother Caleb Miligan, joined the ITV soap in 2022.
Prior to that he had a major role in Waterloo Road as deputy head Chris Mead, who had an affair with his boss’s teenage daughter.
He also has a number of ties to Corrie, with his second cousin Peter Ash portraying Paul Foreman – and even two stints in the Manchester based show himself.
In August 1987 he played a youngster named Spike who attended a charity fete in the street, but returned fifteen years later as Johnny James, a criminal who held four Street favourites at gunpoint.
The episode in question has received a flurry of attention across social media in the last day, after one soap fan posted an image of Will in 2002.
https://t.co/gCo1vp7Sfs pic.twitter.com/mCt9zroEXQ— Christopher Anstey (@ChrisAnstey74) May 5, 2024
The initial tweet referenced Bette Midler, Susan Sarandon, Megan Mullally and Sheryl Lee Ralph’s roles in an upcoming comedy, The Fabulous Four.
One X/Twitter user quoted it saying: ‘I hope they never stop making movies about groups of four older women getting into some sort of shenanigans’.
Soap superfan Chris replied with a picture of Johnny James pointing a gun at Emily Bishop (Eileen Derbyshire), Rita Sullivan (Barbara Knox), Blanche Hunt (Maggie Jones) and Betty Williams (Betty Driver).
The women were enjoying a relaxing trip to the country (Picture: ITV)
In the episode, the four women headed off for a quiet day in the country to celebrate Rita’s 70th birthday, but it wasn’t long before they ran into Johnny, who was on the run from the police after staging a raid at a rural post office.
Johnny mentioned that he had run out of petrol and needed to get to the hospital to see his mother who had just been rushed in.
The women fell for his story and gave him a lift, but panicked when they noticed the stolen cash bulging out of his holdall and started to skid across the road before coming to a halt.
Johnny claimed his mum was in hospital and he needed a lift (Picture: ITV)
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After pulling out a gun in an attempt to hijack the car, Emily froze in the back seat, recalling the time her husband Ernest (Stephen Hancock) was killed by armed robbers in the office at Baldwin’s Casuals in 1978.
Johnny was about to drive off with her when Rita snatched the ignition key out of the lock and began to hit him with the car door and her hand bag.
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The police luckily weren’t far behind and he was arrested, with the ladies arriving at the police station to give their statements.
Ahhh, happy memories.
Realising that the behaviour is remarkably similar to Will’s Dales alter-ego, one viewer replied: ‘That Caleb! Always up to no good!’
Legendary scriptwriter Daran Little added: ‘People of Twitter. I wrote this ep and would love a high quality jpeg of this pic for my office wall. Anyone help?’
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