Emmerdale actress Rosie Bentham. Today she, like thousands across the UK, had to live with the stark reminder that her own father is sadly no longer here.Rosie is known to millions of Emmerdale fans as scheming Gabby Thomas, who is trying to steal matriarch Kim Tate’s thunder at Home Farm.Just a week before her 18th birthday, Rosie’s dad, John, died suddenly of a pulmonary embolism, or blood clot.He was a healthy 60-year-old, had not been ill and had no symptoms that suggested anything was wrong.“It was such a huge shock,” says Rosie. “I was on a weekend away, and when I got told, I just couldn’t believe it because he hadn’t been ill beforehand.“I got angry because I couldn’t understand why and how it had happened.
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