🚨 EMMERDALE BREAKING: KERRY AND JAI PUSHED TO THE ABSOLUTE BRINK OVER SHOCKING NEW ARCHIE DRAMAS! 💣.tt

Emmerdale has revealed longer-term plans for Kerry Wyatt’s new relationship with Jai Sharma, as she steps up to take responsibility for his teenage son Archie.

Kerry looks set to get a second chance at motherhood as she’s called upon to help keep Archie in line.

In scenes airing over the next fortnight, Kerry and her sham husband Eric Pollard are pushed to their limits when Archie starts to rebel.

Archie acts up while his father Jai is away on a trip, so it’ll be a battle of wills as Kerry and Eric try to stay one step ahead.

“With Kerry and Jai, his son Archie is going to be up to a few bad things, and we’ll see how their parenting styles differ,” Emmerdale‘s producer Laura Shaw explained in an exclusive Inside Soap chat.

“It’s going to test Kerry and Jai as a couple but also cement them as a little family.”

It’s fair to say that Kerry’s love life has been complicated recently. She tied the knot with Eric in a marriage of convenience at Christmas, keen to help him make sure that his grandson Jacob would get the biggest inheritance possible.

Although there were never any genuine romantic feelings at play between the newlyweds, Eric couldn’t help feeling put out when Kerry started sneaking around with Jai behind his back.

“They’re like father and daughter – and nothing is going to break that bond,” Shaw added. “If tested, Kerry’s going to pick Pollard every time.”

Laura Norton, who plays Kerry, also recently explained: “Kerry has brought out a part of Jai that we haven’t seen for a long time. He’s trying to be funny and cute, and he really likes her, and really likes that she’s bringing out that side of him. But I feel like, if it starts to get serious, will things get in the way?”

She added: “There are certain things in a relationship where people meet at a crossroads and they go, ‘We’re similar enough and we can make this work’. I don’t know if they’re so different that it’s going to reach that point and they just won’t be able to get past it. But who knows? At the minute she’s having a lovely time with him!”