EMMERDALE star Paula Tilbrook, who played Betty Eagleton in the soap for 21 years, has died at the age of 89. She joined the soap as the sherry-swigging gossip in 1994 and left in 2015, returning for a brief cameo episode in the Christmas episode that same year.
Born in Salford, Lancashire in 1930, Paula became one of the soap's biggest stars when she joined as the straight-talking northerner, appearing in many of its most popular storylines.
As well as appearing in Emmerdale, Paula acted in Coronation Street in 1977 as Estelle Plimpton and returned the following year as a different character, Olive Taylor-Brown.
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