Could it be?
The Emmerdale grooming storyline between Maya Stepney and Jacob Gallagher has left viewers feeling very uncomfortable over the last few months.
The teacher has been grooming 15-year-old Jacob, her student and the stepson of her boyfriend, David, for months now.
The controversial storyline has made fans of the long-running soap furious, with many taking to social media about how it made their “skin crawl”.
Emmerdale have now revealed there’s going to be another twist in the storyline, as David Metcalfe will finally uncover a huge clue.
In scenes set to air net week, Jacob becomes so desperate to stop David and Maya’s date night that he tells his dad Priya can’t find a babysitter for Amba – and guilt trips him into looking after the little girl.
Maya becomes jealous and heads out, planning to sleep with Jacob in the village hall.
David realises Jacob deliberately ruined his and Maya’s date night, so he angrily heads off to the village hall – and very nearly catches them, but Maya manages to hide in time.
As Jacob panics, he lashes out at David for never putting his kids first before gutted David finds one of Maya’s earrings on the floor.
Is it all over for the two of them? Is David going to make the connection?
It comes a few days after the soap’s produce Kate Brooks told Metro about how Emmerdale had been working behind-the-scenes to make sure the storyline was handled in the correct and sensitive way.
She said:
“It can make for uncomfortable viewing but I think it’s a really important storyline to tell. We’ve been working really closely with Barnardo’s to make sure that we get it right, and doing a lot of other peoples stories justice.
“It’s something that’s not really been touched on in soaps, it’s a tricky story to tell but we’ve managed to so far to tell it as sensitively as possible. We’ve worked really closely with Louisa and Joe-Warren Plant and Matthew Wolfenden, and our research team and we’re all really keen to get it right.
“There’s still a long way to go, it’s not going to be as straightforward as you’d imagine, there’s going to be other obstacles thrown into the mix, we want people to be yelling at the TV ‘please tell somebody. This is not right! You’re a young lad. please speak out about this’.”
