The much-loved Emmerdale character Bob Hope has been a resident of the Dales for over 20 years and in that time has been a part of the biggest storylines to hit the show.
From experiencing homelessness and sleeping rough as a youngster to tragically losing his wife to cancer, here is what we know about the man behind one of the most-loved Emmerdale characters.Not only has Tony been involved in storylines which are about homelessness, but he has also experienced it himself as a youngster.
"I'd never do it two nights on the trot because you couldn't really function well. It was Monday in a B&B, Tuesday in the car - the things you saw in those car parks, torches in the window."In 2017, Tony tragically lost his wife to pancreatic cancer when she was just 43 after a 16-month battle with the disease.
In 2022, he told This Morning's Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby: "Part of the thing when you have surgery is that you can't have chemotherapy for a little while because, obviously chemotherapy kills the good cells as well as the bad cells, so while it was all clinging together, some cells got loose.