Paula Tilbrook dead – Emmerdale star dies aged 89 after playing Betty Eagleton for 21 years
EMMERDALE star Paula Tilbrook, who played Betty Eagleton in the soap for 21 years, has died of natural causes at the age of 89. She joined the soap as the sherry-swigging gossip in 1994 and left in 2015, returning for a brief cameo in the Christmas episode that same year.