Emmerdale actor, Kelvin Fletcher, has paid tribute to the late Clive Hornby who died earlier this month.

Clive played the character of Jack Sugden since 1980 on the ITV soap.

“It’s not really hit me yet. There is such a massive void there,” Kelvin told The Mirror. “The minute he went there was a huge hole. There are certain scenes now that you think he should be in and he should be there.

“He was definitely a second father to me, without question. He was a massive part of my life from 12 years old.”

Fletcher added that Clive had always insisted that he would evntually return to work, so his death came as a massive shock to the cast.

“We knew he’d been ill for a while but like anything else you don’t accept it,” Kelvin explained. “He had been off work for a couple of months and what was the hardest was to do scenes saying we missed Jack. We would say, ‘Oh Jack’s on holiday, I wonder when he’s coming back.’ It was hard to do that.”