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Emmerdale has left viewers in tears as they paid an emotional tribute to the late Leah Bracknell on the Tate Family Tree special. Leah tragically lost her battle with lung cancer at the age of 55 in October last year after being diagnosed with the disease in 2016.

Claire King has praised Leah Bracknell as the "most pure, honest, beautiful person". The 'Emmerdale' actress - who plays Kim Tate - and her co-star Emma Atkins (Charity Dingle) paid tribute to the late star (Zoe Tate), who tragically lost her battle with lung cancer in September last year aged 55.

When actors secure a role on a popular soap it can be their career made, with many choosing to stay loyal to their chosen programme for decades to come. And of course as soap fans we love to see our favourites and get lost in their colourful onscreen daily lives on the likes of EastEnders, Emmerdale, Coronation Street and Hollyoaks.

Soap superbitch Kim Tate is always at the centre of some dastardly scheme in Emmerdale, but off screen, actress Claire King doesn’t do drama. As she invites OK! magazine into her beautiful home – a converted barn deep in the Yorkshire dales that she shares with her partner of 13 years – the 57-year-old reveals how she recently removed herself from social media after being bullied for ageing.

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Emmerdale’s Claire King has said her Kim Tate character was not based on Dame Joan Collins’s “classic soap bitch” Alexis Carrington.