Heartbreaking Emmerdale scenes as fan-favourite character’s big secret is revealed

The following article contains spoilers from the episode of Emmerdale dated May 26. It hasn’t aired on ITV1 yet, but can be viewed on ITVX and YouTube.

Brb, just picking up the pieces of my broken heart after watching secretly homeless Kammy Hadiq (Shebz Miah) hide under a blanket in the middle of a freezing cold barn in Emmerdale.

It became apparent that Kammy was hiding something last week, around the same time that a mysterious figure began setting fire to things on Emmerdale Farm.

When Aaron Dingle (Danny Miller) discovered that Kammy had arrived late for his shift at the garage, he began to wonder if it was because he had been busy with some petrol and a lighter elsewhere. As it dawned on Aaron that no-one actually knows a great deal about this young man, he relayed his comments to Belle Dingle (Eden Taylor-Draper).

Belle stuck up for Kammy, but it was clear that Aaron’s words were playing on her mind. In the pub, Belle wondered if she could meet Kammy’s family soon, but he made an excuse and quickly rushed away.

To celebrate Eid, Belle presented Kammy with a homemade card as today’s episode opened. He was touched, but then grew cold when she mentioned popping by his home to see his relatives. Belle didn’t want Kammy to feel pressured and suggested that she could just stick her head in the door and then go, but Kammy wasn’t keen.

He snapped at Belle and told her to forget the idea of meeting his family, and she was very surprised to see this side to her boyfriend.

The dynamic between Kammy and Belle didn’t get any easier when they arrived at The Hide a few hours later. When Kammy stepped out and Belle was left alone with his phone, she debated going through it.

Belle knew this was a bad move, but alarm bells were starting to go off in her mind. She was prevented from totally invading Kammy’s privacy though due to him returning to the table. Belle swiftly got up and claimed to a stunned Kammy that she needed to get back to work.

At Take A Vow, Belle opened up to Dawn Taylor (Olivia Bromley) and wondered whether she was right to worry about Kammy, or whether her anxieties were down to how traumatic her previous relationship was.

Dawn tried to reassure Belle, telling her that she doesn’t think Kammy is a bad person.

As Belle convinced herself that her past was impacting her present, and that Kammy wasn’t at fault, his secret was revealed to us.

Inside one of the barns on Emmerdale Farm, Kammy was lighting up a camping stove ready to heat a tin of baked beans. As his makeshift meal bubbled away, a freezing cold Kammy hid under a blanket as it was confirmed to us that he is homeless.

Kammy’s week will go from bad to worse when he’s caught with a lighter and a can of petrol while on Robert Sugden’s (Ryan Hawley) land.

Robert and Aaron immediately accuse Kammy of being the arsonist, but he then reveals that he was actually planning on torching his car. Due to the fact Kammy legs it from the conversation seconds later, it looks like he’s guilty.

He’s then taken out of the village in a police car after Aaron makes the call, but will he tell anyone the truth about what he’s going through?

‘It’s that thing of peeling back the layers and just learning more about the character. One thing about Kammy is that he is the first Pakistani Muslim we’ve had on Emmerdale, and that itself is a big thing’, star Shebz Miah said, reflecting on Kammy’s new story.

‘And I think now we can finally start to truly understand what that looks like, especially in British soap as well. It’s not really common. So, I am excited and stoked to be able to finally tap into that. But also, the beauty is that I get to show Kammy as just a normal British Bradford lad as well. And it’s amazing that I’m able to blur the lines ever so slightly.

‘But also show myself, as Shebz. I am also sort of Muslim, and South Asian background, I get to show that as well, and it’s a big thing. I am so glad. I went to the producer, I was like, “please let it happen.” I’m truly excited. And you know, a lot of the fans constantly are asking me, “When are we ever going to learn more about Kammy?” And I think now’s the perfect time.

He added: ‘I think from when I first came in to now, it’s been a slow burner, but I think we are starting to learn more about Kammy and see that there is more to him than this cheekiness that he’s got and this bravado that he puts on.’

‘The mask comes off, and we get to see this different version of what we’ve seen so far. Uncomfortable at times, but at the end of the day, he’s human, and there’s only so long you can keep the bravado for. But yeah, fans won’t expect it, and it will snowball into other things as well, but we start to see why and where it all came from.’