Published Date:
07 September 2006
By Suzanne McTaggart
FORMER Emmerdale actress Ursula Holden-Gill is to give her 2006 TV Quick and TV Choice Award for Best Soap Actress to a young girl whose mother died of cancer, the YEP can reveal.
Pippa Sykes, of Hebden Bridge, died in May and helped Ursula, 32, research her role as Alice Dingle in the months before her death. Ursula will now donate the award, along with a showreel of clips from her time at Emmerdale, to a memory box for Pippa's four-year-old daughter Ayanna Bow Sykes from Hebden Bridge.
In July, viewers saw Ursula's character, Alice, tragically lose her battle with non-Hodgkins Lymphoma just months after marrying husband Sam (James Hooton) and giving birth to baby Samson.
The storyline became even more poignant when Sam was faced with the heart-breaking decision to end Alice's life after she begged him to help her die.
Ursula won the prize for Best Soap Actress at the 2006 TV Quick and TV Choice awards on Monday night. She is also up for Most Popular Actress at the National Television Awards in November.
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