Emmerdale star Bobby Knutt, who performed Albert Dingle within the long-running ITV cleaning soap, snubbed his 4 kids in his will following his sudden dying in September 2017. Regardless of leaving a £350,000 fortune, he bequeathed simply £5,000 to 2 and did not point out the opposite two in any respect. Probate paperwork present his sister Tina Martin obtained two-thirds of the property, whereas the remaining third was handed to Michael and Patricia Ward, who Knutt described as “my closest pals”.
The need stipulated that they need to profit from the sale of his dwelling within the village of Elsecar, South Yorkshire, together with the property’s contents and his automobiles. He additionally left them his assortment of “jesters and navy miniatures”. His Royal Doulton “Punch and Judy man” was bequeathed to a different buddy, Ian Crossley, who performs underneath the identify High-quality Time Fontaine. He left his assortment of ceramic fashions of Tea Folks characters and memorabilia to Tina. He additionally left his Omega Seamaster watch and assortment of watercolours of Derbyshire scenes to his buddy and lawyer Stephen Smith, saying: “They might look good in his bar.”
Nevertheless, his grownup kids, Angela Croydon and Simon Wass, obtained simply £5,000 every within the will he made in June 2014. His different kids, Andrew and Cherine, weren’t talked about.
Alongside his position in Emmerdale, Bobby was well-known to viewers as Eddie Dawson within the comedy Benidorm. He additionally performed Ron Sykes in Coronation Road for 3 years.
He was 71 when he died after struggling a coronary heart assault whereas holidaying within the south of France. He left a gross property of £365,055 and, after his excellent affairs have been finalised, a internet property of £350,282.
The actor was married 3 times, and had two sons and two daughters by his first two wives.
However the love of his life was his third spouse, former Olympic athlete Donna Hartley, who died out of the blue aged 58 from suspected coronary heart failure as she sunbathed within the couple’s backyard in June 2013. His dying want was to be buried in the identical grave as her.
The couple met whereas Knutt was acting at Butlin’s vacation camp in Pwllheli, north Wales.
They married in 1986, and on their twenty fifth wedding ceremony anniversary, Knutt stated of his spouse, who gained a bronze medal within the 400 metre relay on the 1980 Moscow Olympics: “I want I’d married my third spouse first.”
He plunged right into a melancholy after Donna’s dying earlier than touchdown the position of Eddie Dawson in ITV’s Benidorm. He stated: “She was the nice love of my life – my finest pal. We by no means rowed in all our years collectively. For 12 months after Donna died, I used to be in a really darkish place.”
