Linda Fowler
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Linda Jane Fowler is a fictional character that appeared in the ITV soap opera Emmerdale. She was played by Tonicha Jeronimo
, from 1994 to 1997. It was reported on May 6, 1997, that Tonicha had quit the rural soap, just after three years. The 19-year-old actress who played pregnant Linda Fowler at the time, had told bosses she wanted to leave the soap later in that year. The character was killed off in a car crash in October 1997, as part of the show's "25th Anniversary".
Tonicha Jeronimo wasn't very academic at all, but she had to work hard at her GCSEs, to get a grant to go to drama school when at the age of 15, she was accepted by the London Studio Centre. Then the part of Linda Glover in Emmerdale came up and she dropped nearly all her exams. Jeronimo's school was not very happy with her, but she came out with two GCSEs, in drama and food studies. .
Jeronimo's dream role as vet's assistant Linda Glover had become a nightmare, wrecking her health and bringing the 20-year-old actress to the brink of a nervous breakdown
. Linda's storylines were full of doom and gloom that she would go home after a day's filming and cry tears of frustration. After 12 months of non-stop screen trauma - which saw her character lose two babies her brother Dave Glover
(Ian Kelsey
) who was killed in a fire and share the agony of husband Biff as he faced the prospect of a life-threatening disease - Tonicha decided that she had finally had enough [...]
I was tearing my hair out," [...]. When Tonicha Jeronimo joined the ITV's hit farming soap as a naive 16-year-old schoolgirl in 1994 she was full of excitement. [...] It was the kind of break every aspiring actress would sell their soul for. `When I first started playing Linda, she was full of fun," she says. "Then I began dating Stuart Wade
who plays Biff. "The bosses saw the chemistry between us and decided it would be good to transfer that to the screen, so they married us off. "But instead of letting us prove that some teenage marriages can survive, they made us argue all the time. "I know that it doesn't make for good viewing to have everybody happy but the number of problems Linda and Biff faced was totally unrealistic. Linda lost two babies, was sexually harassed by Biff's boss and refused to sleep with her husband because she was mourning her brother.[...] Overnight Linda had turned from an upbeat teenager into someone who was morose, depressed
and dull.
Jeronimo later began to share similarities with her character,it however had a negative effect on her.[...] I was fed up with looking miserable and crying all the time on set and I'd go home and not be able to pull out of it. "I felt so depressed. I was being pulled down and started losing confidence in my ability. "I was very unhappy - and that manifested itself in my skin erupting in boils and spots all over my body. The more upset I got, the worse it became. I was so self-conscious that I didn't even want to go out. "I ended up with lumps and blisters everywhere and became very depressed." Tonicha's skin problems began after a particularly infuriating incident where she was ordered to change the colour of her hair.
"I had had my hair cut into a short bob without asking permission first," says Tonicha. "It was silly of me not to ask first, but I only had a couple of inches taken off The next week Malandra Burrows
who plays Kathy, had her hair cut in the exact same style. "Just afterward, Mervyn Watson Emmerdale's series producer told me I'd have to change my hair colour from blonde to brunette.[...]
Jeronimo asked why she had to change her hair, after Watson then told her that there were too many blondes in the show. He said I would have to change because Malandra was a long-standing cast member.
Jeronmimo was furious by having her hair dyed was the beginning of my skin problems.Jeronimo spent most of her teenage years suffering from anorexia nervosa
. Rather than waiting until her current contract expired in December 1997 she decided to be honest with producer Mervyn Watson and handed in her notice straight away to give scriptwriters enough time to write her out. However her honesty backfired when the bosses decided to write her out two months early.[...] A few close friends on the set warned me not to tell Mervyn because I'd be written out much earlier than expected,' When I told Mervyn I didn't want to renew my contract in December, he was amazed. He told me not to make a rush decision and asked me what was wrong.
I told him I was fed up and exhausted and wanted a change. I could see from his face that he thought I was making a mistake."[...] Tonicha later asked for four days grace from her contract which expired on December 20 so that she could take on her new role as Cinderella
in pantomime in Sunderland
over Christmas. Jeronimo was suddenly informed that she would only be required until September 2. [...] I'm not sure why they did it. But knowing how penny-pinching they are, it was probably to save themselves six weeks' wages [...].
had died in a car crash
. Jeronimo struggled to come to terms with the stark newsflash that final Sunday of August, a terrible realisation dawned on her that the car crash in which would see her characters deimise was due to be filmed in just a couple of days' time. With the nation in a state of raw grief, Jeronimo felt it would be a terrible mistake to film scenes that closely mirrored the manner of Diana's death so soon after the tragedy.
Jeronimo then rang bosses expecting to hear that the shoot had been re-scheduled. A couple of minutes later, she hung up, stunned and completely shell- shocked at his response.
[...] The crash scenes were due to be shot between Diana's death and her funeral
. "I was pretty shaken up by Diana's death and naturally assumed that we would postpone filming until after her funeral, out of respect as much as anything I was left speechless when they decided not to. I was told we were going to ignore it and carry on as before. I couldn't believe my ears. [..] Fans of Emmerdale came down to watch scenes being filmed, and with feelings running high, it seemed incredibly poor taste just to carry on regardless,but no one seemed to care that the timing was bad. They were determined to go ahead and Linda's funeral was filmed just a few days before Diana was buried and the fans were furious. A lot of them wrote in saying it was insensitive and disrespectful to have gone ahead.
[...] "There was a very strong feeling in the community and among the fans that we should have waited until afterwards." [...] The incident confirmed Jeronimo's feelings that after three-and-a-half years with the soap, her decision to leave had been the right one. [...] "The first two years were very enjoyable, but the last 12 months were hellish," [...]
Jeronimo's last episode was the most dramatic part of Emmerdale's 25th-Anniversary episode, yet my press agent had to fight to get me on the cover of one magazine.
[...] "There was a big photo-shoot to mark the anniversary, and all the main female members of cast were asked to take part. Jane Cameron, who played the Tates' nanny, was also leaving the show but she was still asked. No one asked me - even though Linda's death was the climax of the anniversary special. The reason given to me by our press office was that the magazine didn't want a dead person in the pictures, which I found very brutal. "As soon as it was announced that I was leaving the show, Stuart Wade
started getting invitations to work functions addressed just to him, even though everyone knows we live together. "[...] .
Tonicha believes the decision to kill Linda off on the soap's 25th anniversary was her punishment for daring to leave. [...] They don't seem to realise that they forced me into it by making Linda so downbeat BUT it was the sly way they went about it that hurt the most. "I heard that I was being killed off in a car crash two months early from other cast members. The bosses didn't even have the grace to tell me first,practically everyone but me knew all about it. "It was humiliating. Jeronimo was met by one of the writers at a party he told her, [...] `We didn't want you to die. It was all down to the big bosses.' Watson told Jeronimo that it was the writers' idea that Linda should be killed. [...] There were so many ways they could have written me out - but they wanted to get rid of me for good to teach me a lesson. "There was a feeling that I had got too big for my boots. The younger you are, the more they try to control you. But they came up against an immovable object when they met me. I think they expected me to be like Linda. [...] downtrodden and insignificant, but they got it wrong. There was also resentment and jealousy from some members of the cast and crew that I had walked into a soap role straight from school.
"I think some of them feel that I will learn what it is like in the big wide world now that I have left."
On Jeronimo's last day of filming, Tonicha threw a farewell party at a restaurant near the soap's studios in Leeds
. Many of the cast attended and Mervyn gave a brief farewell speech but even that packed a final punch. "He gave the same speech - word for word -- to Jane Cameron, who played the Tates' nanny, at her leaving party two weeks later," says Tonicha with a sigh. "Only our names were different. It was another way of showing how little we mattered."[...] .
Before finding true love with Biff Fowler, she had a relationship with Danny Weir, leaving her pregnant. Linda and Biff got married on December 26, 1996, the same day her brother Dave
was killed in a fire whilst trying to save James Tate from dying in the blaze.
In 1997 Linda found out she was pregnant after sleeping with Danny and self-aborted, using drugs from the vets. This put her on the critical list at the hospital. She made a full recovery but lost the baby.
Linda was shocked to find a newborn baby girl in a box outside Zoe Tate's veterinary surgery. Two days later, after being admitted to hospital for haemorrhaging, 13-year-old Emma Cairns admitted to being the mother. The baby made Linda broody. When Biff's father, Ron Hudson, died of Huntington disease and Linda told Biff that she could be pregnant, Biff admitted that his father's disease could be hereditary. Biff's tests for Huntington's disease came back negative. However, heartbreak came when Linda miscarried.
On October 16, 1997 to mark Emmerdale's 25th Anniversary, Linda and other guests were invited to Kim Tate
and Steve Marchant
's engagement party. Linda was excited about the party at Home Farm. She had even laid her dress out. Biff would rather had gone to the Woolpackers event at the wine bar; he asked how much Linda's dress cost and was horrified to hear that she had spent £120 on it, and they rowed about it. Linda later arrived at the party, squashed in her mini
, with the rest of her family. Biff complained to Steve that he was blocking the parking with his Porsche. He gave Linda the keys so she could move it. Linda was eager to dance as soon as she arrived at the party. Biff was not drinking because he was driving. Biff was jealous when Linda waved at Alex as they had lunch that day, and he was still bitter towards Kim. Meanwhile Linda was still dancing and drinking, she even coped, spending time with Chris Tate
. When he talked to her, Biff looked on with rage.
Then Kim slipped into the bathroom so as not to be noticed she found Alex in there snorting cocaine
. Kim was furious with Alex as she disapproved of drugs, and the fact that Alex spent his money on them. She later decided to cause some trouble and told Alex to go off with Linda for some fun, which Kim would later regret. She watched as Biff looked on while Alex asked Linda to dance. Linda and Alex were enjoying themselves so Tara decided to ask Biff to dance, but he snubbed her and barged through Alex and Linda. Alex then suggested that they go outside. Kim watched them disappear. Linda then suggested to Alex that they go for a drive in Steve's porsche, because she has still got the keys. Alex agreeed to drive. Kim saw them leave Linda then suggested to Alex that they go for a drive.
Kim smugly told Biff that Linda had gone off with Alex and that he is "a bit of a lad". Biff
rushed off. Linda was talking to Alex about Biff. He then pulled over in the car. Biff raced off in the mini. Alex got his
cocaine out. Linda was shocked that Alex has taken some drugs and is driving again. He started to touch Linda, but she did not want him to and told him to stop. They then had a fight and Linda screamed just before Alex crashed the car into a tree. Alex was conscious after the crash. He saw that Linda was badly injured and moved her over into the driving seat, kissed her and ran off leaving Linda there to die. She was later pronounced dead on October 21. Biff was trying to wake Linda; Kathy & Doug have stopped their car to help; Doug phoned for an ambulance using his mobile. Alex had sneaked back to Home Farm. The party was still going on. Tara found Alex washing his face in the bathroom at Home Farm, when Linda was taken away in an ambulance.
Biff had been breathalysed and was going to drive himself to the hospital as the Glovers left the party, Kim was furious with Alex she told Tara that she caught him taking cocaine. Alex claimed that he left Linda in a layby and that she drove off at speed. They all decide to stick to this story to protect the name of the business.
Linda was brought into hospital and was taken straight to the resuscitation room. Biff arrived moments later and was told that he cannot see Linda; the doctor asks about Linda's parents, Ned and Jan, who have arrived home and are in a frisky mood. They think that Biff and Linda must have gone off somewhere and are about to go up to bed when Biff phoned them from the hospital. Biff was feeling bad about the row he and Linda had at the party. He regretted his jealousy. Kathy and Doug tried to
comfort him, but Biff blamed Kim as well for winding him up so that he chased after Linda and Alex. Tara was hurt by Alex's behaviour, but felt even worse when he tells her what really happened with Linda. Biff is told the terrible news that Linda has died from uncontrollable
internal bleeding
caused by a fractured pelvis and an ruptured spleen
. Biff is shocked, he cries as he looks at Linda's body. He kissed her and told her that he will always love her.
Tonicha Jeronimo
Tonicha Jeronimo is a British soap opera actress of partial Portuguese extraction. She starred on the show Emmerdale from 1994-97 until her character, Linda Fowler, was killed off....
, from 1994 to 1997. It was reported on May 6, 1997, that Tonicha had quit the rural soap, just after three years. The 19-year-old actress who played pregnant Linda Fowler at the time, had told bosses she wanted to leave the soap later in that year. The character was killed off in a car crash in October 1997, as part of the show's "25th Anniversary".
Personality and identity
Tonicha Jeronimo is a far cry from Linda Fowler, the Emmerdale character she played, who coped with endless traumas and speaks her mind. 'She's a really stroppy little cow,' for her own good, but she is passionate. When she has a crusade, she goes straight for it. She's not weak. She's really strong in a crisis.'Tonicha Jeronimo wasn't very academic at all, but she had to work hard at her GCSEs, to get a grant to go to drama school when at the age of 15, she was accepted by the London Studio Centre. Then the part of Linda Glover in Emmerdale came up and she dropped nearly all her exams. Jeronimo's school was not very happy with her, but she came out with two GCSEs, in drama and food studies. .
Departure
In May 1997 Tonicha Jeronimo announced her decision to leave Emmerdale after three years of grinding despair, one relentlessly miserable storyline after the other. Jeronimo's decision was a big headache for the show's bosses leaving them struggling to cope with yet another high-profile departure. Jeronimo leaving was a huge blow to the show, especially after the news that so many other cast members were on their way out. .Jeronimo's dream role as vet's assistant Linda Glover had become a nightmare, wrecking her health and bringing the 20-year-old actress to the brink of a nervous breakdown
Nervous breakdown
Mental breakdown is a non-medical term used to describe an acute, time-limited phase of a specific disorder that presents primarily with features of depression or anxiety.-Definition:...
. Linda's storylines were full of doom and gloom that she would go home after a day's filming and cry tears of frustration. After 12 months of non-stop screen trauma - which saw her character lose two babies her brother Dave Glover
Dave Glover
David Edward "Dave" Glover is a fictional character in the British ITV soap opera Emmerdale played by Ian Kelsey.-Storylines:Dave arrived in the village with his parents Ned and Jan and younger siblings Linda and Roy in August 1994. He got a job working as a farmhand at Home Farm.Until 1995, Dave...
(Ian Kelsey
Ian Kelsey
Ian Kelsey is a British television actor.Kelsey was born in York, Yorkshire, England, to parents Julie and John . He also has an older brother named David. He trained at the Joseph Rowntree Theatre York and graduated at the Guildford School of Acting...
) who was killed in a fire and share the agony of husband Biff as he faced the prospect of a life-threatening disease - Tonicha decided that she had finally had enough [...]
I was tearing my hair out," [...]. When Tonicha Jeronimo joined the ITV's hit farming soap as a naive 16-year-old schoolgirl in 1994 she was full of excitement. [...] It was the kind of break every aspiring actress would sell their soul for. `When I first started playing Linda, she was full of fun," she says. "Then I began dating Stuart Wade
Stuart Wade
Stuart Wade is a British actor, best-known for playing "Biff Fowler" on ITV's Emmerdale from 1994-99...
who plays Biff. "The bosses saw the chemistry between us and decided it would be good to transfer that to the screen, so they married us off. "But instead of letting us prove that some teenage marriages can survive, they made us argue all the time. "I know that it doesn't make for good viewing to have everybody happy but the number of problems Linda and Biff faced was totally unrealistic. Linda lost two babies, was sexually harassed by Biff's boss and refused to sleep with her husband because she was mourning her brother.[...] Overnight Linda had turned from an upbeat teenager into someone who was morose, depressed
Depression (mood)
Depression is a state of low mood and aversion to activity that can affect a person's thoughts, behaviour, feelings and physical well-being. Depressed people may feel sad, anxious, empty, hopeless, helpless, worthless, guilty, irritable, or restless...
and dull.
Jeronimo later began to share similarities with her character,it however had a negative effect on her.[...] I was fed up with looking miserable and crying all the time on set and I'd go home and not be able to pull out of it. "I felt so depressed. I was being pulled down and started losing confidence in my ability. "I was very unhappy - and that manifested itself in my skin erupting in boils and spots all over my body. The more upset I got, the worse it became. I was so self-conscious that I didn't even want to go out. "I ended up with lumps and blisters everywhere and became very depressed." Tonicha's skin problems began after a particularly infuriating incident where she was ordered to change the colour of her hair.
"I had had my hair cut into a short bob without asking permission first," says Tonicha. "It was silly of me not to ask first, but I only had a couple of inches taken off The next week Malandra Burrows
Malandra Burrows
Malandra Elizabeth Burrows is an English actress and singer.-Early life:Burrows' first name, Malandra, is a portmanteau of her parents' names, Malcolm and Sandra. Her mother encouraged her at an early age to begin dancing; she initially trained under Billy Pearce's mother Jean...
who plays Kathy, had her hair cut in the exact same style. "Just afterward, Mervyn Watson Emmerdale's series producer told me I'd have to change my hair colour from blonde to brunette.[...]
Jeronimo asked why she had to change her hair, after Watson then told her that there were too many blondes in the show. He said I would have to change because Malandra was a long-standing cast member.
Jeronmimo was furious by having her hair dyed was the beginning of my skin problems.Jeronimo spent most of her teenage years suffering from anorexia nervosa
Anorexia nervosa
Anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder characterized by refusal to maintain a healthy body weight and an obsessive fear of gaining weight. Although commonly called "anorexia", that term on its own denotes any symptomatic loss of appetite and is not strictly accurate...
. Rather than waiting until her current contract expired in December 1997 she decided to be honest with producer Mervyn Watson and handed in her notice straight away to give scriptwriters enough time to write her out. However her honesty backfired when the bosses decided to write her out two months early.[...] A few close friends on the set warned me not to tell Mervyn because I'd be written out much earlier than expected,' When I told Mervyn I didn't want to renew my contract in December, he was amazed. He told me not to make a rush decision and asked me what was wrong.
I told him I was fed up and exhausted and wanted a change. I could see from his face that he thought I was making a mistake."[...] Tonicha later asked for four days grace from her contract which expired on December 20 so that she could take on her new role as Cinderella
Cinderella
"Cinderella; or, The Little Glass Slipper" is a folk tale embodying a myth-element of unjust oppression/triumphant reward. Thousands of variants are known throughout the world. The title character is a young woman living in unfortunate circumstances that are suddenly changed to remarkable fortune...
in pantomime in Sunderland
City of Sunderland
The City of Sunderland is a local government district of Tyne and Wear, in North East England, with the status of a city and metropolitan borough...
over Christmas. Jeronimo was suddenly informed that she would only be required until September 2. [...] I'm not sure why they did it. But knowing how penny-pinching they are, it was probably to save themselves six weeks' wages [...].
Diana, Princess of Wales controversy
In August 1997 Jeronimo was devastated when she heard the news that Diana, Princess of WalesDiana, Princess of Wales
Diana, Princess of Wales was the first wife of Charles, Prince of Wales, whom she married on 29 July 1981, and an international charity and fundraising figure, as well as a preeminent celebrity of the late 20th century...
had died in a car crash
Death of Diana, Princess of Wales
On 31 August 1997, Diana, Princess of Wales, died as a result of injuries sustained in a car accident in the Pont de l'Alma road tunnel in Paris, France. Her companion, Dodi Fayed, and the driver of the Mercedes-Benz W140, Henri Paul, were pronounced dead at the scene of the accident. Fayed's...
. Jeronimo struggled to come to terms with the stark newsflash that final Sunday of August, a terrible realisation dawned on her that the car crash in which would see her characters deimise was due to be filmed in just a couple of days' time. With the nation in a state of raw grief, Jeronimo felt it would be a terrible mistake to film scenes that closely mirrored the manner of Diana's death so soon after the tragedy.
Jeronimo then rang bosses expecting to hear that the shoot had been re-scheduled. A couple of minutes later, she hung up, stunned and completely shell- shocked at his response.
[...] The crash scenes were due to be shot between Diana's death and her funeral
Funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales
The public funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales started on September 6, 1997 at 9:08 am in London, when the tenor bell sounded to signal the departure of the cortege from Kensington Palace. The coffin was carried from the palace on a gun carriage, along Hyde Park to St. James' Palace, where...
. "I was pretty shaken up by Diana's death and naturally assumed that we would postpone filming until after her funeral, out of respect as much as anything I was left speechless when they decided not to. I was told we were going to ignore it and carry on as before. I couldn't believe my ears. [..] Fans of Emmerdale came down to watch scenes being filmed, and with feelings running high, it seemed incredibly poor taste just to carry on regardless,but no one seemed to care that the timing was bad. They were determined to go ahead and Linda's funeral was filmed just a few days before Diana was buried and the fans were furious. A lot of them wrote in saying it was insensitive and disrespectful to have gone ahead.
[...] "There was a very strong feeling in the community and among the fans that we should have waited until afterwards." [...] The incident confirmed Jeronimo's feelings that after three-and-a-half years with the soap, her decision to leave had been the right one. [...] "The first two years were very enjoyable, but the last 12 months were hellish," [...]
Jeronimo's last episode was the most dramatic part of Emmerdale's 25th-Anniversary episode, yet my press agent had to fight to get me on the cover of one magazine.
[...] "There was a big photo-shoot to mark the anniversary, and all the main female members of cast were asked to take part. Jane Cameron, who played the Tates' nanny, was also leaving the show but she was still asked. No one asked me - even though Linda's death was the climax of the anniversary special. The reason given to me by our press office was that the magazine didn't want a dead person in the pictures, which I found very brutal. "As soon as it was announced that I was leaving the show, Stuart Wade
Stuart Wade
Stuart Wade is a British actor, best-known for playing "Biff Fowler" on ITV's Emmerdale from 1994-99...
started getting invitations to work functions addressed just to him, even though everyone knows we live together. "[...] .
Tonicha believes the decision to kill Linda off on the soap's 25th anniversary was her punishment for daring to leave. [...] They don't seem to realise that they forced me into it by making Linda so downbeat BUT it was the sly way they went about it that hurt the most. "I heard that I was being killed off in a car crash two months early from other cast members. The bosses didn't even have the grace to tell me first,practically everyone but me knew all about it. "It was humiliating. Jeronimo was met by one of the writers at a party he told her, [...] `We didn't want you to die. It was all down to the big bosses.' Watson told Jeronimo that it was the writers' idea that Linda should be killed. [...] There were so many ways they could have written me out - but they wanted to get rid of me for good to teach me a lesson. "There was a feeling that I had got too big for my boots. The younger you are, the more they try to control you. But they came up against an immovable object when they met me. I think they expected me to be like Linda. [...] downtrodden and insignificant, but they got it wrong. There was also resentment and jealousy from some members of the cast and crew that I had walked into a soap role straight from school.
"I think some of them feel that I will learn what it is like in the big wide world now that I have left."
On Jeronimo's last day of filming, Tonicha threw a farewell party at a restaurant near the soap's studios in Leeds
Leeds
Leeds is a city and metropolitan borough in West Yorkshire, England. In 2001 Leeds' main urban subdivision had a population of 443,247, while the entire city has a population of 798,800 , making it the 30th-most populous city in the European Union.Leeds is the cultural, financial and commercial...
. Many of the cast attended and Mervyn gave a brief farewell speech but even that packed a final punch. "He gave the same speech - word for word -- to Jane Cameron, who played the Tates' nanny, at her leaving party two weeks later," says Tonicha with a sigh. "Only our names were different. It was another way of showing how little we mattered."[...] .
1994-1997
Linda arrived in Emmerdale with the rest of her family in 1994. She worked at the vets as a receptionist despite her father's objections when he found out that Zoe Tate was a lesbian.Before finding true love with Biff Fowler, she had a relationship with Danny Weir, leaving her pregnant. Linda and Biff got married on December 26, 1996, the same day her brother Dave
Dave Glover
David Edward "Dave" Glover is a fictional character in the British ITV soap opera Emmerdale played by Ian Kelsey.-Storylines:Dave arrived in the village with his parents Ned and Jan and younger siblings Linda and Roy in August 1994. He got a job working as a farmhand at Home Farm.Until 1995, Dave...
was killed in a fire whilst trying to save James Tate from dying in the blaze.
In 1997 Linda found out she was pregnant after sleeping with Danny and self-aborted, using drugs from the vets. This put her on the critical list at the hospital. She made a full recovery but lost the baby.
Linda was shocked to find a newborn baby girl in a box outside Zoe Tate's veterinary surgery. Two days later, after being admitted to hospital for haemorrhaging, 13-year-old Emma Cairns admitted to being the mother. The baby made Linda broody. When Biff's father, Ron Hudson, died of Huntington disease and Linda told Biff that she could be pregnant, Biff admitted that his father's disease could be hereditary. Biff's tests for Huntington's disease came back negative. However, heartbreak came when Linda miscarried.
On October 16, 1997 to mark Emmerdale's 25th Anniversary, Linda and other guests were invited to Kim Tate
Kim Tate
Kimberly Jane 'Kim' Tate is a fictional character on the ITV soap opera Emmerdale. who appeared between 1989 and 1999, She was played by actress Claire King. Kim Tate is seen as one of the most iconic characters in the history of British soap opera, having been dubbed The Soap Superbitch...
and Steve Marchant
Steve Marchant
Steven "Steve" Marchant was a fictional character on the British soap opera Emmerdale, played by Paul Opacic. He was introduced as an old university friend of Rachel Hughes, whose husband Chris was jealous of him. When Chris and Rachel split up, Steve and Rachel dated, but Steve soon got bored and...
's engagement party. Linda was excited about the party at Home Farm. She had even laid her dress out. Biff would rather had gone to the Woolpackers event at the wine bar; he asked how much Linda's dress cost and was horrified to hear that she had spent £120 on it, and they rowed about it. Linda later arrived at the party, squashed in her mini
Mini
The Mini is a small car that was made by the British Motor Corporation and its successors from 1959 until 2000. The original is considered a British icon of the 1960s, and its space-saving front-wheel-drive layout influenced a generation of car-makers...
, with the rest of her family. Biff complained to Steve that he was blocking the parking with his Porsche. He gave Linda the keys so she could move it. Linda was eager to dance as soon as she arrived at the party. Biff was not drinking because he was driving. Biff was jealous when Linda waved at Alex as they had lunch that day, and he was still bitter towards Kim. Meanwhile Linda was still dancing and drinking, she even coped, spending time with Chris Tate
Chris Tate
Christopher Francis "Chris" Tate is a fictional character from the ITV soap opera Emmerdale. He was played by Peter Amory.-Early storylines:...
. When he talked to her, Biff looked on with rage.
Then Kim slipped into the bathroom so as not to be noticed she found Alex in there snorting cocaine
Cocaine
Cocaine is a crystalline tropane alkaloid that is obtained from the leaves of the coca plant. The name comes from "coca" in addition to the alkaloid suffix -ine, forming cocaine. It is a stimulant of the central nervous system, an appetite suppressant, and a topical anesthetic...
. Kim was furious with Alex as she disapproved of drugs, and the fact that Alex spent his money on them. She later decided to cause some trouble and told Alex to go off with Linda for some fun, which Kim would later regret. She watched as Biff looked on while Alex asked Linda to dance. Linda and Alex were enjoying themselves so Tara decided to ask Biff to dance, but he snubbed her and barged through Alex and Linda. Alex then suggested that they go outside. Kim watched them disappear. Linda then suggested to Alex that they go for a drive in Steve's porsche, because she has still got the keys. Alex agreeed to drive. Kim saw them leave Linda then suggested to Alex that they go for a drive.
Kim smugly told Biff that Linda had gone off with Alex and that he is "a bit of a lad". Biff
rushed off. Linda was talking to Alex about Biff. He then pulled over in the car. Biff raced off in the mini. Alex got his
cocaine out. Linda was shocked that Alex has taken some drugs and is driving again. He started to touch Linda, but she did not want him to and told him to stop. They then had a fight and Linda screamed just before Alex crashed the car into a tree. Alex was conscious after the crash. He saw that Linda was badly injured and moved her over into the driving seat, kissed her and ran off leaving Linda there to die. She was later pronounced dead on October 21. Biff was trying to wake Linda; Kathy & Doug have stopped their car to help; Doug phoned for an ambulance using his mobile. Alex had sneaked back to Home Farm. The party was still going on. Tara found Alex washing his face in the bathroom at Home Farm, when Linda was taken away in an ambulance.
Biff had been breathalysed and was going to drive himself to the hospital as the Glovers left the party, Kim was furious with Alex she told Tara that she caught him taking cocaine. Alex claimed that he left Linda in a layby and that she drove off at speed. They all decide to stick to this story to protect the name of the business.
Linda was brought into hospital and was taken straight to the resuscitation room. Biff arrived moments later and was told that he cannot see Linda; the doctor asks about Linda's parents, Ned and Jan, who have arrived home and are in a frisky mood. They think that Biff and Linda must have gone off somewhere and are about to go up to bed when Biff phoned them from the hospital. Biff was feeling bad about the row he and Linda had at the party. He regretted his jealousy. Kathy and Doug tried to
comfort him, but Biff blamed Kim as well for winding him up so that he chased after Linda and Alex. Tara was hurt by Alex's behaviour, but felt even worse when he tells her what really happened with Linda. Biff is told the terrible news that Linda has died from uncontrollable
internal bleeding
Internal bleeding
Internal bleeding is bleeding occurring inside the body. It can be a serious medical emergency depending on where it occurs , and can potentially cause death and cardiac arrest if proper medical treatment is not received quickly....
caused by a fractured pelvis and an ruptured spleen
Ruptured spleen
Rupture of the capsule of the spleen, an organ in the upper left part of the abdomen, is a situation that requires immediate medical attention. The rupture of a normal spleen can be caused by trauma, such as a car accident.-Function In the Body:...
. Biff is shocked, he cries as he looks at Linda's body. He kissed her and told her that he will always love her.