Emmerdale legend Claire King shares heartbreaking family tragedy ahead of Christmas

Emmerdale’s Claire King has revealed that her begetter has died.

The actress, who portrays Kim Tate connected the ITV soap, opened up astir the heartbreaking household nonaccomplishment successful a caller interrogation arsenic she discussed her plans for Christmas.

‘Unfortunately, my dada passed distant recently,’ she said.

‘My mum volition beryllium coming to america on with my member and his girlfriend. I’m doing the cooking – Marks & Sparks is my friend!’

She added to TV Times: ‘My spouse and I would similar a chateaubriand but different radical similar turkey. I mightiness compromise and bash a goose.’

Claire has been astatine the centre of Emmerdale implicit the past twelvemonth aft Kim recovered retired that hubby Will Taylor (Dean Andrews) had cheated connected her with his ex Rose (Christine Tremarco).

In emblematic Kim fashion, the matriarch concocted a well-thought retired program to get revenge connected her cheating beau, making him judge that idiosyncratic other had uncovered his matter arsenic she discreetly blackmailed him for cash.

Will did everything helium could to support the blackmailer astatine bay, unaware that his woman was the 1 down the strategy – thing which helium recovered retired the hard mode erstwhile Kim made it look similar she had been kidnapped by the enigma villain.

That is, until she revealed herself to beryllium the calculated blackmailer, demanding that Will springiness her a divorce.

Kim, who remains a fan-favourite character, made her Emmerdale debut each the mode backmost successful 1989.

Claire departed the relation successful 1999 and staged an iconic instrumentality astir 2 decades aboriginal successful 2018.

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