Emmerdale fans are really cross with Jacob Gallagher after he made some cruel remarks to Priya Sharma about her eating disorder in last night’s episode of the ITV soap.
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Viewers have seen the teen struggling to cope with the break-up of David and Tracy Metcalfe and – since David has provided Priya and their daughter Amba somewhere to stay following her struggles at Holdgate – Jacob has blamed her for Tracy staying away.
Last night he decided that forcing Priya to leave was the way to get Tracy to move back.
She returned home to find him packing her bags and that he’d even called a cab for her and the pair had a furious showdown.
During the explosive row, Jacob told Priya to ‘starve herself then someone might like you’ referring to Priya’s eating disorder which hospitalised her when she was pregnant with Amba.
And the fans did not take this comment very well at all.
“Bringing up her ED issues is a serious low, normally I think jacob’s a good kid but that was a nasty low blow,” one viewer commented.
Another tweeted: “I’m disgusted with what Jacob said then. Disregarding mental health in a passing comment: ‘starve yourself then someone might like you’.”
“Oh nahhhhh jacob that was way too far, you crossed a line there, lad” added another.
And a fourth said: “Ummmm too far Jacob.”
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Priya hit back hard at Jacob though and told him she isn’t the one the school boy should be blaming for David and Tracy’s break-up but his ‘Aunty’ Leyla Harding (who’s actually his biological mum.)
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The reveal left Jacob reeling and battling whether or not he should tell Tracy the truth about David’s betrayal.
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Emmerdale continues tonight at 7pm on ITV