Emmerdale child star dies aged 3
 

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A 3-year-old girl who starred on Emmerdale as a baby has died after her dress caught alight on a gas fire.

Sophie Firth, who appeared as Jimmy and Nicola King's daughter Angelica for three months in 2009, passed away on Tuesday (December 11) after nine days in hospital, the Daily Mail reports.

Firth was at her grandmother's home when the tragic accident occurred on December 2. She and her family were staying at the house in Skellow, South Yorkshire while their own nearby residence was being renovated.

Reports suggest that the youngster suffered 70% burns and later lost her battle to survive after developing a blood infection.

Firth's uncle Mick Harhoff commented: "Sophie was such a lovely little girl and she was exceptionally bright. She always used to say that she wanted to be a princess. You do expect that one day you may bury your parents but you never expect to bury a child."

Nicola Wheeler, who plays Emmerdale's Nicola, tweeted this week: "Tonight there is a star that burns a little more brightly. xxx"

The role of Angelica is currently played by Rebecca Bakes.

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:(

That's a tragic thing to happen :(

RIP:(. So sad, condolences to her loved ones.

:o omg :sad:

Aw,what an awful thing to happen,poor little thing,may she RIP.

oh poor girl and her famerly rip

Bit insensitive.

That is so very sad :( What a horrible thing to happen :( May the little angel R.I.P

Why?

RIP. what a tragedy.

What she tweeted.

That was a nice thing to say

Maybe it was just unfortunate wording but using the word "burning" jumped out at me.

Anyway, absolutely devastating accident. R.I.P

Oh :shocked: That never even occurred to me

always at xmas with have these sad things. RIP little one.

I think it is in reference to the word ;burn; niamh

Yeah, that jumped out for me to. But so sad. :(

I picked up on that, I did think she could have said better wording. Really sad thing to happen to the child though.

Yes pretty poor choice of words in the tweet...

Poor little mite R.I.P x

wow she really could have worded that better

What an awful tragedy, that poor little girl :(