Rishi hides another secret as Jai confronts him over the adoption in Emmerdale

In Monday (June 26)’s Emmerdale, Jai Sharma (Chris Bisson) made a shattering discovery: he’s adopted, and the man he always thought of as his dad, Rishi (Bhasker Patel), had kept this a secret for the past 47 years.

It should have been a happy day as Jai had just become engaged to Laurel (Charlotte Bellamy) and they were starting to plan their wedding. He needed his divorce certificate, so he went to Rishi’s house to look through papers stored in his old bedroom. And that’s when he found adoption papers that showed Rishi was not his biological father.

This news hit Jai hard and in Tuesday (June 27)’s episode he was in a bad mood after a sleepless night. At work at the Hide he took his anger out on Matty (Ash Palmisciano) after he made a simple mistake, and Laurel had to intervene.

She was worried that former drug user Jai would turn back to drugs as a way to cope, but he insisted he was not going to do that. To reassure Laurel he said he would call his sponsor anyway.

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Just as things were calming down, Rishi arrived – and he had a confession. It wasn’t the confession that Jai wanted to hear, though. Rishi was just feeling guilty that he hadn’t been able to resist the temptation to spread the news of Jai and Laurel’s engagement far and wide so he’d phoned Priya (Fiona Wade), who was happy for the couple but annoyed that Jai hadn’t called her himself.

As Rishi was running through this tale, Jai’s anger was growing and Rishi calling him ‘number one son’ tipped him over the edge. He told Rishi that he’d found the adoption papers. Shocked, Rishi covered by saying he’d acted in Jai’s best interests and it was ‘just a piece of paper.’

Later Jai came home to find Rishi waiting for him and this time Jai hoped he’d get some answers.

Rishi started by saying that Jai’s mum is his mum, and gave birth to him. His father was a ‘mistaken one night stand’ and Jai’s mum had been pregnant when Rishi met her. She was ‘a bit of a wild child,’ Rishi explained, and Jai’s biological father had ‘vanished.’ They’d fallen in love and when hey realised she was pregnant they got married. They never saw Jai’s biological father again.

They were overjoyed when Jai was born, and Rishi said they had ‘the perfect little family.’

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This wasn’t enough for Jai who had the strong impression that Rishi was keeping something back from him. He wanted to call his mum but Rishi advised against it, saying it wouldn’t be fair for it to come out of the blue.

Jai’s mum, Georgia (Trudie Goodwin) left the village in 2015 after she had an affair with Rodney Blackstock which ended her marriage. When the relationship with Rodney also ended, Georgia considered a reconciliation with Rishi but decided to go on a cruise instead

This only made Jai more suspicious, and Rishi’s body language certainly didn’t do anything to fill him with confidence as his dad could barely look him in the eye.

Jai was fuming, calling his dad a ‘lying, hypocritical fraud.’ He said he didn’t want anything to do with him.

It’s clear that Rishi is hiding something, but it also seems clear that he’s doing it to protect Jai. What’s the full story behind who Jai’s father is?

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