Emmerdale has confirmed who Joe Tate is targeting next.

Joe returned to the village at Christmas, exhibiting some mysterious symptoms that he has been hiding from his family.

It was later revealed that Joe has chronic kidney disease and is being treated by the dodgy Dr Crowley.

Joe is on the search for a kidney donor and first targeted half-brother Noah, taking him to a private hospital when he was unconscious. However Noah turned out to not be a match.

Meanwhile, Manpreet Sharma is currently being blackmailed by someone threatening to ruin her medical career by releasing Only Fans-style images she previously shared online.

Tonight, Dr Crawley paid Joe a visit, telling him he still believes his best chance is to go abroad to look for a donor. However, Joe insisted that it has to be a relative.

In the surgery, Manpreet revealed to Ella that she’d agreed to meet her blackmailer and hand over £5,000 to them after receiving a text.

When Manpreet goes to meet her blackmailer, she was shocked to see Joe there. But he claims to know nothing about the blackmail and it’s just a coincidence he’s there.

After Manpreet gets a text now demanding £10,000, Joe offers to help her, saying it’s his fault they’re after more money since they must have seen him with her.

Joe then offers to pay off the blackmailers, saying he’s got the money to do it and what he really needs are friends in the village.

Once Joe leaves Manpreet’s, it is revealed that Dr Crawley has been sending the texts demanding the money on Joe’s behalf.

The next day Manpreet meets her ‘blackmailer’ but she secretly has Joe with her. She asks the man why he’s doing this to her and he says she just “made it easy by putting herself out there”.

Manpreet then hands over the money and the man deletes all the photos he has of her after Joe tells him he’s being recorded.

Back at home Joe tells Manpreet she doesn’t have to pay him back any of the money, causing her to say if there’s anything he ever needs she’ll help him.

Joe eventually tells her that his grandad Frank had a genetic condition that he kept to himself, AAT (Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency), which causes lung and liver problems as well as heart issues.

He then says he has been diagnosed with the same condition and any of Frank’s living blood relatives could also have it, which includes Caleb.

Joe says that because the pair don’t get along he can’t broach the subject with him and he doesn’t want Caleb to know he’s ill.

Manpreet offers to talk to Caleb but Joe says that won’t work. Instead, Joe wants her to obtain a blood sample from Caleb so he can have it tested privately.

When Manpreet says she could get struck off for doing such a thing, Joe tells her not to worry and that he’ll think of something else.

Later, Joe speaks to Dr Crawley and confirms that Caleb is his next target for a donor.

𝐏𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰 “𝑭𝒂𝒏𝒑𝒂𝒈𝒆 & 𝑾𝒆𝒃𝒔𝒊𝒕𝒆: 𝑐𝑜𝑟𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑠𝑛𝑒𝑤𝑠.𝑖𝑛𝑓𝑜” 𝐭𝐨 𝐮𝐩𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐞𝐱𝐜𝐥𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧. 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐬𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐮𝐬 𝐭𝐨𝐛𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐧-𝐝𝐞𝐩𝐭𝐡 𝐜𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐢𝐞𝐬