Clive Hornby who played Jack Sugden in the ITV soap Emmerdale has died aged 62. The veteran actor who has played this part for the last 28 years had not worked since January due to ill health
Jack’s character married three times in the series and had five children
Fact followed fiction when Clive married Helen Weir, who played his first on-screen wife, Pat, in 1986.
Together they had a son, Thomas, and after his birth Weir left the drama and was killed off in a car crash the same year. Clive later split with the actress.
Clive was very proud of the fact the he had worn the same flat cap since he started filming in 1980
He will be sadly missed by all the cast members.
Chris Chittell, who plays Eric Pollard in Emmerdale, said Clive “meant everything to everyone”.
“He was a very private and courageous man and not only a great contributor to the show but also to all our lives,” he added.