EMMERDALE stars left viewers in tears as they paid heartfelt tribute to Leah Bracknell in a Tate Family Trees special. Claire King, Emma Atkins, and Peter Amory remembered their late co-star, who passed away from lung cancer in October last year after being diagnosed with the disease in 2016.
Leah played Zoe Tate on the ITV soap between 1989 and 2005, with her character at the centre of several big plots over the years - including making history as the first lesbian character in a British soap to have a coming out storyline in 1993.
Emmerdale's Family Trees episodes have been airing on Thursday nights in tribute to some of the 'Dales most iconic families, with yesterday's show remembering the Tate family's arrival with Kim [Claire King] in.
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