Noah Dingle

Noah Christopher Dingle (né Tate, previously Sharma and Macey, also Christopher Francis Tate Jr.) is the son of Charity Dingle and Christopher Tate and the half-brother of Debbie Dingle, Ryan Stocks, Joe Tate, and Moses Dingle. For the first few months of his life, Noah was raised by his aunt Zoe Tate who renamed him Christopher after his late father before he was returned to his mother who changed his name back to Noah.

Biography[]

2004-2005: Birth, Zoe Tate and leaving the village[]

Charity went into labour whilst she was serving time in prison for the murder of her late husband Chris Tate, who in actuality had committed suicide after discovering he had an inoperable brain tumour in order to frame Charity for his murder. She was rushed to hospital where Noah was born three months prematurely on the 1st March 2004, via emergency cesarean, weighing only two pounds two ounces. Charity planned to have her baby adopted as she could not offer him a future whilst in prison.

Charity initially didn't know who her baby's father was as she had slept with her cousins Cain and Marlon Dingle as well as Chris during the window of conception, so Cain's father Zak Dingle ordered a DNA test convinced that the baby was his grandchild. Noah's sister Debbie was also convinced the baby was Cain's so she named him Enoch, which means the son of Cain in the bible. Charity didn't like the name so they agreed to name him Noah.

Whilst waiting for the DNA test results the doctor told Charity that Noah has been taken seriously ill. He was diagnosed with Necrotising Enterocolitis, a condition that is not uncommon with premature babies. The doctor explained that Noah needed surgery and despite the doctor telling her to try and remain positive Charity demanded to know what Noah's chances of survival were. The doctor tells her that Noah only had a 50/50 chance of pulling through.

As the Dingles prepared for Noah's surgery the DNA results arrived and everyone was shocked when the results revealed that Chris was Noah's father. Chris' sister Zoe decided that she would get custody of Noah and Charity agreed in return for the evidence that would see her released from prison, as well as £10,000 on top. Zoe renamed the baby, Christopher Francis Tate Jr. after her late brother and banned Charity and Debbie from seeing him. Zoe was able to take baby Christopher home to Home Farm when he was two months old. The baby was christened in St. Mary's Church with Scott Windsor as his godfather. Debbie attended the service despite Zoe not wanting her there. Zoe relented and admitted that Debbie should be a part of the baby’s life.

Zoe planned to adopt Christopher. In July 2004, Zoe was informed at the adoption hearing that her application was turned down due to her previous mental health problems as well as already having her hands full with her daughter Jean and Chris' older son Joseph. Social Services informed Charity of the verdict and asked her to decide if she wanted her son back or put him up for adoption elsewhere. Charity was initially resistant but eventually admitted that she didn't like the thought of him being brought up by strangers and asked for her baby back. Zoe reluctantly handed him back to Charity, however, Charity promised Zoe would be allowed regular access to him if she so wished. She then changed his name back to Noah and he moved into Holdgate Farm with her and her fiancé Tom King as well as Tom's family.

Noah left the village to live in Spain in March 2005 with Charity after her relationship with Tom broke down. Originally Debbie was going to go with them but she changed her mind last minute and after an emotional farewell, Charity and Noah drove out of the village.

2007-2013: Return to Emmerdale and numerous stepdads[]

By 2007 Charity and Noah had returned to England and had moved in with Michael Conway, who Charity later got engaged to. Noah believed Michael was his real father. On 1st October 2009, Debbie and Cain gatecrashed Charity and Michael's wedding and revealed Michael and Debbie's affair, as well as Charity, lies about being pregnant and lying about her past. Michael subsequently left Charity and said a heartfelt goodbye to Noah. Charity and Noah returned to the village and moved into Tug Ghyll with Cain, Debbie and Debbie's daughter Sarah. Charity and Noah briefly left the village but they returned and moved in with Marlon at Tall Trees Cottage. On Christmas Day 2009, Charity and Cain got engaged and they moved back in together.

In February 2010 Cain arranged for a Emmerdale Haulage lorry full of sat-navs to be hijacked, unaware that Carl King has asked Charity to do the run. Noah was in the cab with Charity when it was hijacked, leaving him terrified. A few days after the hijacking Noah told Charity that he saw Cain during the hijacking. Charity was furious and called off their wedding, although they stayed together. The following month Cain secretly arranged for him and Charity to get married. and brought her there without her knowing of his true intent. Charity ended up not going through with the ceremony in part due to Noah not being there.

In February 2011 Charity and Noah moved into Holdgate Farm with Jai Sharma after Charity and Cain's relationship broke down. Charity and Jai began a relationship and Noah eventually warmed to him. They married in January 2012 and soon after Jai wanted him and Charity to have a child of their own. Charity didn't want any more children so Jai asked to adopt Noah. They ended up just changing Noah's name to Noah Christopher Sharma. In November 2013 Charity discovered that Jai had fathered a secret son, Archie, with the cleaner Rachel Breckle during their marriage. She was furious and filed for divorce, leaving Noah devastated at the loss of another father figure. Jai and Charity tried to make a go of things but they Charity couldn't look past Jai's betrayal so she and Noah moved in with Debbie, Sarah and Jack in Debbie's new house, Mulberry Cottage.

2013-2015: Declan Macey and living at Butlers Farm[]

On Christmas Day 2013, Charity gave Declan Macey an alibi after he set fire to his own house, Home Farm. In April 2014, Charity discovered that she was pregnant with his baby. She planned to have an abortion but Declan found out and proposed to Charity and told Noah that he was to be a big brother. Charity and Declan married the following month, and they changed Noah's surname to Macey. Charity aborted the baby and pretended that she had a miscarriage, and blamed Declan's sister, Megan, after she pushed her.

In September 2014, Charity stopped Jai from taking Noah to football as he wanted to take Megan as well. Annoyed at Charity, Noah took a bottle of her wine out to play with his best friend Jacob. Jacob refused to take a drink of the wine but Noah took a swig. Noah collapsed and was rushed to hospital, where Charity and Declan were told that Noah was in a critical condition. They learned that the bottle of wine that Noah drank from was spiked with pesticides and that Noah had gotten an allergic reaction to pesticides. Megan was arrested attempting to murder Charity, as it was Charity's bottle of wine.

After Noah was released from hospital Charity left him with Debbie as Declan planned to Charity to a secluded cottage to relax and get away from everything that had been going on. Whilst at the cottage Declan tried to murder Charity but she escaped onto a boat in the middle of a lake. Declan managed to get aboard the boat and aimed a flare gun at Charity but he ended up shooting Megan's son Robbie. Charity hit Declan over the head with the gun and he fell into the water. When Charity got home she broke the news to Noah that Declan wouldn't be coming back. Charity and Noah moved back into Home Farm alone and Charity reverted hers and Noah's surname to Dingle. Declan returned briefly in October 2014 and told Jai about Charity blackmailing Rachel to leave, as well as sending a confession of the truth about the fire and Charity's involvement in it. Due to the video, the insurance company reposed Home Farm. Jai kidnapped Charity and locked her in a container to try and make her tell him where Rachel was with Archie, even though she had no idea. Noah thought that Charity abandoned him so he asked Debbie if he could stay with her instead. Charity moved in with Cain and his wife Moira at Butlers Farm and persuaded Noah to move in too.

In November 2014, Noah started to bully Jacob, because he felt like Charity had abandoned him. Noah wrote 'MURDERER' on the front of Wishing Well Cottage, using spray-paint. This made Belle Dingle's name stand out because she pushed her friend, Gemma Andrews causing her to hit her head and later dying later in hospital. He also made Jacob use spray-paint on and trash Bernice Blackstock's beauty salon. Noah got Jacob to steal money from the church but he was caught in the act by Kerry Wyatt and vicar Harriet Finch. They took Jacob to his mother Alicia Metcalfe, where they explained everything. Alicia found spray-paint in Jacob's bag, making Kerry assume that Jacob had vandalised the salon, so she started to shout at him, unaware that Noah made him do it. Jacob confessed the following morning about Noah bullying him, to Alicia and her husband David. Jacob refused to take the bus to get to school because Noah was also getting on it. Alicia and David told Charity who punished Noah by not allowing to go on a skiing trip that Connelton Primary School were offering to students in Noah's year group. However, after realising why he was acting out she told him they would instead go on a trip together. She told him she missed him and had not been around much to give him space, which she thought he wanted but that that was going to change from now on.

In January 2015, Charity was sent to prison for perverting the course of justice. Noah was originally going to be staying with Zak and Lisa at Wishing Well Cottage but asked to continue staying at Butlers with Cain and Moira as he looked to Cain as a father figure. The following month, Cain took Noah to visit Charity but she stopped sending her family visiting orders, which left Noah heartbroken. In June, whilst Debbie was visiting Charity in prison, she unexpectantly went into labour, without any of her family even knowing she was pregnant and gave birth to a baby boy. Charity had hoped that having a baby would reduce her sentence but it didn't so she handed the baby over to Debbie to look after. Noah was not happy with Charity and thought that she stopped seeing him because she was more interested in her new baby. He was also frosty towards the baby, who the Dingles named Moses and asked to stay with Cain and Moira for good. Charity told Moses' father Ross Barton that she wouldn't tell anyone that he was the father if he split up Cain and Moira for her. Ross suggested to Noah that Charity was sending him visiting orders but Moira was not telling him about them, however, Moira managed to convince Noah that that was not true.

2016-2019: Living at The Woolpack[]

In January 2016, Noah overheard Moira talking about Charity selling him as a baby, he was upset, and after a phone call to Charity, Noah ran away. Emma Barton found Noah wandering the streets and hid him in The Grange B&B overnight. Moira and Cain were frantic with worry although Noah turned up the following day. Charity was released in March 2016, and she and Noah moved into The Woolpack, after Charity had bought Diane Sugden's share of the pub.

On 2nd June 2016, Robert Sugden found out that Noah was sending crude anonymous texts to Liv Flaherty claiming to be her deceased father Gordon, who sexually abused Liv's half-brother, Noah's cousin Aaron, as a child. The following day, possessing a nasty side himself, Robert agreed to keep Noah's secret to himself, and simultaneously threatening and warned him off tormenting Liv any further. Noah's relationship with his mother continued to be strained, and when Moira's daughter Holly died suddenly in September 2016, Noah, eager to help, started to help out around the farm.

Charity promises Noah that he will be her top priority.

However, Moira was still too raw after losing her daughter and persuaded Noah to try to bond with Charity instead of her. In October, Charity and Cain planned to leave the village to live with Debbie in France, and Noah was upset to find out they were planning to go without him, even though Charity insisted she would send for him once they had settled. After Cain left Charity alone by the roadside, upon realising he was still in love with Moira, she returned to the village. When Charity came back she promised that from now on Noah would be her top priority and Noah said she would be his.

In 2018, Noah met his half-brother Joe Tate who had returned to the village and started seeing Debbie under the alias Tom Waterhouse. He stole Charity and Debbie's Bentley and publicly humiliated Debbie as revenge for his father's death which he blamed Charity for. With Joe's arrival Charity was forced to tell Noah the truth about his father and how he killed himself and tried to blame Charity for his murder. Noah began skipping school to visit Joe at Home Farm where they played chess and poker together. Charity found out and reluctantly agreed to let Noah keep seeing Joe. In August, Charity introduces Noah to his long lost brother, Ryan Stocks, who she had as a result of rape at the age of fourteen. It all becomes too much for Noah who doesn't want anything to do with Ryan because of what his dad did to Charity, causing Noah to move out and start living with Joe at Home Farm instead. Charity tries to convince him to come back home and give Ryan another chance but he says he'll only be in the way. He eventually warms up to Ryan and in September, they attend Charity's trial against her rapist together to support her.

In October 2018, Joe disappears without a word leaving Noah devastated. Kim Tate arrives and throws Noah out of his home at Home Farm, leading to him moving back into the Woolpack with his mum. When Kim is pushed from a balcony, Charity suspects Noah is the one responsible and confronts him, upsetting him as he is innocent. A few days later, Graham calls Noah up to Home Farm, as Noah still can't get his head around Joe's disappearance. Graham explains that Joe had tried to steal Home Farm from Kim, spent her money like it was his and promised him and Debbie things that were never his to give. Noah states he doesn't care if Joe is rich or not, and he doesn't think Debbie would either. Graham assures Noah that Joe was proud to have him as his brother and loved him very much. He then presents Noah with the cuff links Joe was going to wear to marry Debbie, explaining they originally belonged to their dad. When Noah comments there are loads he doesn't know about Joe, Graham promises him he can ask him if he has any question.

Noah, Leanna and Amelia leave Daz's car in a field.

In late November 2018, Noah feels ignored by Charity as she's busy with Sarah's recovery and left behind by Joe, so he asks to join Leanna Cavanagh's gang after learning she hacked the school computer system and sent out a message, giving everybody a day off. A few days later, the head-teacher Jessie Grant approaches Noah, Leanna and Amelia Spencer and informs them she's sent out an e-mail to parents saying that any pupils caught getting involved in dares and pranks will be servery dealt with but the teens ignore. The following day, they flood the school to get the rest of the day off. Later, Noah, Leanna and Amelia steal Daz Spencer's car and go joyriding. After Leanna almost crashes the car they dump the car in a field and heads home. Daz later finds the car and is involved in a hit-and-run accident. The police find out and believe the kids are the ones responsible as Noah's phone is found in the stolen car. Noah eventually admits to being in the car however insist they left it before the accident. In December, Noah gets excluded from school till after Christmas due to his involvement in the flooding and poor attendance record.

In April 2019, Charity tells Noah that Joe has been found alive but is not coming back. Noah is devastated. After Charity leaves the room, Debbie reveals Graham knew where Joe was the whole time and he insists Kim and Graham can't get away with this. Debbie promises they won't.

2019-2021: Protecting Sarah and overdose[]

In August 2019, Noah, Charity and Moses along with Charity's fianceé Vanessa Woodfield and her son Johnny moved out of the Woolpack, feeling that the place had gotten too crowded, especially since Paddy's dad Bear moved in. On 13th August they moved in with Sarah at Debbie's old house after she left for Scotland.

In November 2019, Sarah and Noah held a party at the house while Charity was working late, but Noah started getting worried when Sarah took a pill of PMA from her new friend Danny, especially considering her medical history and severe heart condition. Charity and Vanessa returned home and broke up the party but Noah continued to worry as Sarah kept hanging out with Danny and even overheard him giving her more pills. Noah wanted to tell Charity and Vanessa about what was going on but Sarah convinced him not to. After finding pills in Sarah's bag that she held for Danny, Noah confronted him and tried to warn him to stay away from her, revealing how sick she was, but to no avail as they grew even closer.

Sarah continued to pressure Noah not to tell on her and assured him that she had given the pills back to Danny and was not holding them for him anymore. However, Noah did not believe her and on 20th December 2019, he looked through her bag again and found a bag of pills. Sarah caught him and he tried to tell her he was just looking out for her but she was having none of it and told him he was a sad little freak who was making the pills into a bigger deal than it actually was. She told him he was pathetic and embarrassing so he put the pills in his pocket and left, ignoring Sarah's warnings that Danny would kill him. While Noah walked around the village, Graham caught him and confiscates the drugs, unaware that he still had a few in his pocket. Feeling alone and forgotten, he finally took the pills and suffered an overdose alone in the woods. He was found by a dog walker the following day and was taken to hospital, where the doctors told a devastated Charity that he had an overdose which coupled with a severe case of hypothermia from being out in the woods all night contributed to a condition called rhabdomyolysis which could leave him with kidney damage. He woke up the next day but had to be kept in hospital over Christmas.

Charity tried to get to the bottom of why Noah took the drugs and Noah told her he was feeling low that day after feeling ignored by Charity coupled with Sarah calling him pathetic and Graham saying Joe would have been disappointed with him, then he remembered he had the pills and just took them. However, Noah got upset when she only focused on Graham, already furious that he'd found Noah with drugs without telling her and now convinced that he was the reason Noah took them, but didn't seem to understand her own part in it.

In January 2020, Noah opened up to Charity again, saying that she only cared about herself and hated Graham more than she loved him. She apologised for not being good at showing it but reassured him that she loved him and had been worried sick about him. Later, Noah was relieved when Sarah finally ditched Danny and reported him to the police after he attempted to get her to deal drugs for him.

In late January, Noah was devastated when Graham was murdered by Pierce Harris, and took offence when Charity kept badmouthing him. When Charity emphasised how Graham was responsible for his drug overdose by not telling her about the drugs, Noah had enough of Charity not knowing the truth and furiously revealed that Sarah was the one responsible.

In November 2020, Noah was upset with Charity when she messed up their relationship kissing someone else and Vanessa decided to leave the village. Noah and Sarah got worried as Charity began spiralling and stated drinking too much to cope but she was unwilling to listen. Charity eventually decided it would be best for Noah and Sarah to move out and stay with Cain at Butlers Farm while she got her head straight but they refused. However, after Cain realized what was going on, he agreed and insisted on taking the teens in. After speaking to Chas to encouraged him to find his own path, Noah decided he wanted to drop out of school and join the British Army, although Charity didn't want to sign the consent forms.

However, Noah knew he would be rejected from the Army's selection programme due to his compromised kidneys and asked his cousin Samson Dingle to provide a healthy urine sample. Samson was reluctant to help but Noah convinced him to go along with his plan and was pleased when he was accepted into the Army. He tried to persuade Charity to let him go and told her that he was going to train as an engineer in the Army to make something of himself, which almost worked until Samson revealed to her that Noah had faked the urine test. Charity was furious and refused to let Noah leave, then told the Army what he had done, getting him barred for life for reapplying because he had lied during the medical examination. This left Noah deeply angry as he pushed Samson and Charity away, feeling that both of them had betrayed him.

2021-2022: Darker personality and stalking Chloe Harris[]

In April 2021, Jamie Tate hires Noah to spy on Gabby Thomas, who was pregnant with Jamie's child, at Home Farm as he is suspicious about her intentions after she moves in to the house. Whilst he is doing this, he develops a crush on Gabby, and does really creepy things such as feeling her underwear in the washing basket but is caught by Will Taylor, who tells Gabby what he saw.

In July 2021, Gabby finds out and she she is left feeling very uncomfortable, so she tells Noah to leave her alone but Noah then follows her home from Leanna Cavanagh's 18th birthday party. After she catches him, he claims that he was only looking out for her, but she confronts him about his weirdness and Noah lashes out as tells Gabby that she's a 'dirty prostitute' for sleeping with Jamie to get into Home Farm. Days later, he apologises, and she forgives him, but their friendship is still not repaired. In August, they are in The Woolpack, Noah criticises Gabby for allowing Jamie to move back into Home Farm, after had been kicked out weeks prior because Kim found out that he had been spiking her drinks, and calls her a 'stupid cow' which is overheard by Liam Cavanagh, who tells Noah that he is being rude and to leave.

After the incident in the pub, Noah and Gabby hardly speak to each other, until Liv Flaherty thinks she had been attacked when she was drunk and Gabby finds a voicemail message on her phone from Liv, with Noah arguing with her in the background. Gabby tells Liv about everything that happened with her and Noah, and when Liv's older brother Aaron overhears, he assumes that Noah sexually assaulted her. They all confront Noah outside his house, and Noah claims that he only tried to help Liv, although none of them believe him and Gabby reminds everyone about what he did to her. This is all heard by his mother Charity, who tells Noah to go inside, and sends his accusers away, before speaking to Noah about his treatment of Gabby and tells him that it is not right to treat women the way he treated Gabby. She then retrieved the CCTV from the area where the supposed attack happened, and it turned out that Noah had been telling the truth after all. Aaron and Liv later apologise, although he doesn't want to hear it as he is still angry that they would accuse him of doing something like that.

In August 2021, Noah finds out that Sarah is secretly meeting to sister of her heart donor and insists on going with her as he believes it is a bad idea. They meet with Chloe Harris in a public park and though she is initially uncomfortble about Noah's presence, the two soon hit it off. They start texting on a regular basis, but this creates problems when Chloe ghosts Sarah and continues talking to Noah, leaving Sarah feeling hurt. In November 2021, after weeks of texting, Noah and Chloe start seeing each other in secret as Chloe starts spending more time around the village. They plan to run away together after Charity and Kerry Wyatt (who is currently responsible for Chloe) object to their relationship and hide out in a barn. However, they are both caught and taken back home after Noah is unable to perform sexually after drinkig too much wine.

Noah continues to try to impress Chloe, and even steals Leanna Cavanagh's ring from Meena Jutla (which, unbeknownst to Noah, was stolen from Leanna when Meena murdered her). Eventually, Kerry and Charity allow them to see each other, although. Their relationship turns sour when Chloe sleeps with Jacob Gallagher. Noah is furious about this, so he punches Jacob in the cafe, then calls Chloe a 'slapper' and 'the village bike' before storming out. He later goes to see Chloe with floweres, intending to make up, but when Chloe tells him that their over, he angrily throws flowers towards her which scares her.

In March 2022, Noah upsets Liv and Vinny by showing a weird interest in their sex life and mocks Samson for taking work experience at the salon, telling him that doing make up is girly. That same month, Amelia Spencer develops a crush on Noah, which he becomes somewhat aware of and he invites her to a party that he is throwing at the Cafe. She starts talking to him and they get on well, however, he is actually trying to make Chloe jealous by spending time with Amelia, although, she is oblivious to this. Eventually, Noah tries showing off to Chloe and he tells her that he still wants her back, but she tells him it's not going to happen and then warns Amelia to watch out. Noah got angry and told her that he never fancied her anyway, so she called him pathetic as she storms out. Noah is left hurt by Chloe's rejection and Amelia tries to comfort him but he angrily lashes out at her by telling her that she's nothing special and that she never would be, so she leaves in a very vulnerable state.

Days after this, Noah hangs out with Samson are in The Hide, and Noah mocks Samson for still not having sex with anyone yet (although, unbeknownst to him at the time, this was not the case) and his behaviour is witnessed by Matty Barton who tells Noah to cut it out. He doesn't listen, causing Samson storms off and as he is he is doing so, Noah then makes an inappropriate comment about Amelia, which is overheard by Al Chapman, who is dating Amelia's step-mother, Kerry. He furiously confronts Noah, telling him he should always respect women and to stay away from Amelia but Noah acts tough as he says that he's not scared of Al, although he backs off after Al tells him that if he goes near her again he will regret it.

As the tension between Noah and Chloe eases, he starts doing her favours such as buying tickets for concerts that she likes, and giving her a pass to go to an escape room with Sarah in order to win Chloe back, but she still thinks of him as just a friend. When he discovers that she ditched the concert to see Nate Robinson instead, he is furious, so he then installs a tracker on to her phone when she isn't looking and buys a drone to film her when she is sleeping. He also breaks into the house and snoops around her room and takes several photos, incriminating himself in the process but Chloe then unexpectedly comes home, so Noah finds himself hiding in her wardrobe. She nearly catches him, although luckily for him, Kerry calls Chloe, telling her to meet her, so she heads back out of the house, allowing Noah to plant a microphone on her bookshelf and take her diary.

When he returns home, he listens to a conversation between her and Kerry and learns about an upcoming party, which Sarah also mentions. Noah convinces Sarah to let him come as well and even steals alcohol from the pub to make her agree to it. While he is at the party, he realises that he is still in possession of Chloe's diary, so he dumps it in Jacob Gallagher's bag. Jacob then opens his bag in front of Chloe and she discovers her diary in there, so she accuses him of Noah’s crime instead. Jacob protests his innocence although not many people believe him and Noah comforts Chloe as she is left uncomfortable about this violation.

In May, After manipulating Chloe for weeks, Noah invites her over to the house, since no one else is home. When she is there, she realises that Noah had her house keys which were stolen by Noah. He then explains that Moses picked them up and that he was surprised that he didn't put two and two together, and that Jacob had probably used them to enter the house. As Noah then goes to the shop to get some snacks and Chloe goes on his laptop to change the music playing and finds the files he has on her, realising that it was Noah who had been harassing her. He then returns and Chloe explains how she knows what he did and that she wants to leave but Noah refuses to let her go as he tries to explain. She runs for the door, but Noah then pushes her over and holds his hand over her mouth as he tries to stop her from screaming for help. Charity walks in just in time and stops her son from causing any more grief as Chloe manages to escape. Chloe tells Al and Kerry everything, so Kerry turns up at the house, saying that she wants to report Noah, but Charity explains that mentally he is still a kid and that she can help him better than anyone else. Meanwhile, Al goes to confront Noah, only to find that he has done a runner, so he continues search for Noah and finds him hiding in the Pavilion with the incriminating laptop. Al tells Noah to give him the laptop or else he wouldn't like the alternative but Cain comes to a scared Noah's rescue and tells Al that if he wants Noah, he'd have to get through him first, forcing Al to back down.

Afterwards, Kerry's daughter, Amy Wyatt, steals the laptop from the Woolpack while Charity isn't looking, then gives it to Al, but Chas and Cain manage to get the laptop back. That day, Kerry confronts Noah in the graveyard but he refuses to admit any wrongdoing, so she pushes him into an empty grave and puts a piece of wood over it to trap him. Terrified, Noah shouts for help and is eventually rescued by David Metcalfe, then tells Charity what Kerry did to him. The following morning, Chas returns the laptop to Charity who heads up the scrap yard to destroy it, although after talking with Kim Tate, she decides to hand it to the police after all, leading to Noah being arrested and charged. He is furious when he finds out it was Charity who reported him, and is upset when she reasons that he needs to face the consequences of his actions, so he moves out of the house whilst on bail. However, he does attend his trial, where he pleads guilty, and is consequently given a 3 month custodial sentence.

2022-2024: Relationship with Amelia and feud with Samson[]

In prison Noah cuts contact with his family, but sends Gabby a visiting order, however he is shocked when Amelia turns up having faked Gabby's identity. Noah begins to bond with Amelia through the prison visits and the pair become even closer when Noah is released as Noah supports as Amelia is pregnant. Although Noah is not the father, the pair decide to get into a relationship and Noah later learns that Samson is the father of Amelia's unborn child leading to confrontation between the three of them where Amelia's father Dan learns that she is pregnant. He grabs Noah and threatens him, believing that the baby is his but he denies it, with Samson soon revealed to be the father. Despite all of this, Noah tells Amelia that he will still be there for her and the baby. In October 2022, Amelia gives birth to a baby girl who she names Esther.

Noah and Amelia continue to grow closer in the months following Esther's birth. When Amelia begins to worry that she won't be able to take care of Esther financially, Noah transfers his own trust fund, set up by his father to Esther. Samson continues to cause problems as he agrees to put his name on the birth certificate, which Noah is unhappy about but doesn't say anything as he is Esther's father and it makes Amelia happy. However, it is soon revealed that Samson only agreed to it so he could try to put Esther up for adoption. Noah threatens Samson outside Wishing Well Cottage when he finds out about his schemes, but Charity pulls him away and reminds him that he will go back to prison if he does anything.

A few weeks later it seems that Samson actually wants to get to know his daughter as he begins spending time with her and Amelia but Noah doesn’t trust Samson and pays him to stay out of Esther's life as he wants to protect her. Samson agrees and Noah gives him £2,000 from the trust, however, Samson soon demands more money from Noah and he has to pay another £2,000. Shortly after, Esther goes to hospital with a temperature and Amelia wants Samson to be there but he refuses to go, later demanding more money from Noah. During an argument about Samson, Noah gets angry and tells Amelia that he has been paying Samson to stay away, leaving her stunned and she soon confronts Samson about it. Samson’s parents Sam and Lydia Dingle head about this and are horrified that Samson would be so cruel while Amelia is angry at Noah for trying to stop Esther from knowing her father. She ends their relationship which devastates Noah and he begs her to take him back. Soon he manages to make up with Amelia and continues to be a father figure to Esther.

In 2023, Noah's boss, Marcus Dean moved away from the village, ending Noah's apprenticeship with him so Noah started working for a bigger electrician company in Hotten. In August 2023, Amelia's father, Dan is sent to prison for manslaughter. Noah supported Amelia through the trial where Dan plead guilty. Noah wants Amelia to move in with him but Charity says they don't have the room at Jacob's Fold, so his cousin Chas Dingle lets her live in the pub.

In August 2024, Samson confessed to robbing the HIDE and was charged with armed robbery. He later attacked Josh Cope who instigated the crime and Noah saw this. He then reported it to the police, knowing that if Samson showed up to court in handcuffs, he would go down for longer. This plan works and Samson get's sentenced to five years and everyone accuses Moira Dingle of reporting Samson, as he originally let her son Matty go to prison, but Noah eventually owns up to reporting Samson. A furious Amelia dumps Noah for this, seeing it as another attempt to get Samson out of Esther's life and Noah is upset by this. Even though he and Amelia are no longer together, Noah lets Esther keep his trust fund as he wants her to have a good start in life. Later in the year Noah expresses his disapproval of Amelia's relationship with Tom King but she tells him it is none of his business.

2024 to present: Joe's return[]

On 26th December 2024, Noah is surprised to see his older half-brother Joe Tate is back in the village. Joe tries to reconnect with Noah over the next few days, but Noah wants nothing to do with him after he left and didn't contact him. A few weeks later, Joe offers Noah VIP tickets to a Leeds United match and Noah tells Joe he will think about it, but secretly he is glad to be able to spend time with his brother again. However, the next day Joe tells him that he doesn't have the tickets anymore, angering as he sees it as Joe abandoning him again. Shortly after, Noah is hired to fix the electric system at Home Farm and spends time with Joe. They begin to bond as Noah works, and he asks Joe why he withdrew his offer for the tickets, so Joe explains that Charity sent her ex, Ross Barton to threaten him into leaving Noah alone. Noah then suggests that they pretend to still be at odds to keep Charity off their backs, while still hanging out in secret and stage an argument in the cafe for Charity's benefit. A couple of days later, Joe gifts Noah with a watch that belonged to their father and Noah is very grateful for the heirloom, but Charity sees the watch, and confronts Noah about his relationship with Joe. He then angrily tells her that he has no friends apart from Joe and that he is lonely, causing Charity to relent.

Noah then sets up his own business but it struggles as negative reviews about him are posted online and he worries that his business will fail but Joe then offers him a job working on developments in Dubai, which excites Noah. However, Charity and Sarah convince him that he is better off staying with his family, so Noah turns Joe down, causing Joe to shout at him. The day after, Noah is distraught when his tools are stolen and believes that he has no choice but to go to Dubai, but Charity and the other Dingles get him his tools back and find him some jobs, so Noah turns Joe down again. Then on 14th February 2025, Noah is drugged and left to wander through the countryside, where he stumbles onto a road and is almost run over by Charity, but she swerved the limo she was driving. He then collapses and is found by Charity, who calls an ambulance to gets him to hospital, where they say he has been spiked. Noah doesn’t remember anything that happened but is horrified to learn he caused the accident that killed Leyla Harding, Suzy Merton and Amy Barton. As he returns home from the hospital, Leyla’s son Jacob Gallagher, confronts Noah and accuses him of killing his mother. After this, Noah feels incredibly guilty and attends the vigil for the victims but Jacob orders him to leave. A couple of days later, Noah has a flashback and believes that he remembers Joe being there after he was spiked, causing Charity to think Joe was behind it.

After the accident, Noah is pleased when Joe becomes really affectionate toward him and they spend a lot of time together. In May 2025, Noah finds Charity with drugs and she tells him that she is going to use them on Joe because she found out he did spike him. Noah is devastated by this news and decides to handle it his own way by reporting Joe to the police. He later interrupts a party at Home Farm where the police are talking to Joe but he is angry when the police leave and Joe calls him a liar in front of everyone. After the party, Noah is seen standing over an unconscious Joe, who had been pushed out of a window, but when Kim Tate confronts him he claims to have just found Joe.

As Joe lies in a coma, Noah is repeatedly questioned by DS Dasari and is soon the main suspect. A week after the fall, Joe wakes up and Noah goes to see him, but is shocked as Joe blackmails him by saying he will tell the police Noah tried to kill him if Noah doesn’t retract his statement about the spiking. Noah agrees, on the condition that Joe also pays him, but this puts him at odds with Charity and Jacob, with Charity denouncing him as just a Tate.

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Residences[]

Address	Duration
Hotten General Hospital	1st March to 29th April 2004
Home Farm	29th April to 21st July 2004
Holdgate Farm	21st July 2004 to 4th January 2005
Wishing Well Cottage	4th January to 4th February 2005
The Grange	4th February to 1st March 2005
Spain	1st March 2005 to circa.2007
Durham	circa.2007 to 1st October 2009
Unknown hotel (temporarily)	1st October to 5th October 2009
Tug Ghyll	5th October to 23rd November 2009
Tall Trees Cottage	23rd November to 28th December 2009
Tug Ghyll	28th December 2009 to 11th February 2011
Victoria Cottage	11th February to 17th February 2011
Holdgate Farm	17th February 2011 to 21st November 2013
Mulberry Cottage	21st November to 3rd December 2013
Holdgate Farm	3rd December to 16th December 2013
Mulberry Cottage	16th December 2013 to 3rd July 2014
Home Farm	3rd July to 22nd October 2014
Mulberry Cottage	22nd October to 27th November 2014
Butlers Farm	27th November 2014 to 14th March 2016
The Woolpack	14th March 2016 to 30th August 2018
Home Farm	30th August to 8th October 2018
The Woolpack	8th October 2018 to 13th August 2019
Jacobs Fold	13th August 2019 to 30th November 2020
Butlers Farm	30th November 2020 to 6th January 2021
Jacobs Fold	6th January to 18th January 2021
The Woolpack	18th January to 11th February 2021
Jacobs Fold	11th February 2021 to 27th May 2022
Wishing Well Cottage	27th May to 7th June 2022
HMP Hotten	7th June to 28th July 2022
Jacobs Fold	28th July 2022 to 13th January 2023
Dale Head	13th January to 28th March 2023
Jacobs Fold	28th March 2023 to present

Quotes[]

"Mummy, can you play cards with me?" - first line upon his return in 2009.
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"Do you really want to know who is to blame for that? Ask Sarah!" - to Charity Dingle, revealing that Sarah was responsible for him getting the drugs to begin with.