Emmerdale star refused to give kids any of £350,000 | UK News

Emmerdale star Bobby Knutt, who performed Albert Dingle in the long-running ITV cleaning soap, snubbed his 4 kids in his will following his sudden death in September 2017. Despite leaving a £350,000 fortune, he bequeathed just £5,000 to two and did not point out the other two at all. Probate paperwork show his sister Tina Martin obtained two-thirds of the property, while the remaining third was handed to Michael and Patricia Ward, who Knutt described as “my closest friends”.

The will stipulated that they need to benefit from the sale of his home in the village of Elsecar, South Yorkshire, along with the property’s contents and his vehicles. He also left them his assortment of “jesters and military miniatures”. His Royal Doulton “Punch and Judy man” was bequeathed to another good friend, Ian Crossley, who performs under the title Fine Time Fontaine. He left his assortment of ceramic fashions of Tea Folk characters and memorabilia to Tina. He also left his Omega Seamaster watch and assortment of watercolours of Derbyshire scenes to his good friend and lawyer Stephen Smith, saying: “They would look nice in his bar.”

However, his grownup kids, Angela Croydon and Simon Wass, obtained just £5,000 each in the desire he made in June 2014. His other kids, Andrew and Cherine, weren’t talked about.

Alongside his function in Emmerdale, Bobby was well-known to viewers as Eddie Dawson in the comedy Benidorm. He also performed Ron Sykes in Coronation Street for three years.

He was 71 when he died after struggling a coronary heart assault while holidaying in the south of France. He left a gross property of £365,055 and, after his excellent affairs had been finalised, a web property of £350,282.

The actor was married 3 times, and had two sons and two daughters by his first two wives.

But the love of his life was his third spouse, former Olympic athlete Donna Hartley, who died all of a sudden aged 58 from suspected coronary heart failure as she sunbathed in the couple’s garden in June 2013. His dying want was to be buried in the same grave as her.

The couple met while Knutt was performing at Butlin’s vacation camp in Pwllheli, north Wales.

They married in 1986, and on their twenty fifth wedding ceremony anniversary, Knutt said of his spouse, who received a bronze medal in the 400 metre relay at the 1980 Moscow Olympics: “I wish I’d married my third wife first.”

He plunged into a depression after Donna’s death before touchdown the function of Eddie Dawson in ITV’s Benidorm. He said: “She was the great love of my life – my best pal. We never rowed in all our years together. For 12 months after Donna died, I was in a very dark place.”