Johnny Leeze, Emmerdale and Coronation Street star has died aged 78 only one day after testing positive to Covid. His daughter Holly broke the sad news that her father had died following a two week illness.
The soap star’s daughter shared that he had tested positive for Coronavirus before he died.
Johnny Leeze (born John Glen; 31 December 1941) was a British actor in television and film. He was famously known for playing Harry Clayton in long-running British soap opera Coronation Street for a few months in 1985, and as Ned Glover on the British soap opera Emmerdale from 1994 to 1999. He appeared again in 2000, before leaving shortly afterward.
His daughter paid loving tribute to her dad as her “friend”, a “strong man” and a “great guy”.
She added: ‘He was my friend, he was such a strong, strong man. He was such a great guy, a really funny guy. He was loved by everybody really. Even by his ex-wife, who is with me today, my mum.
‘I don’t know what else to say. I’m numb, I just can’t get my head round it at the minute. I want to say so much more about him but I just don’t know what to say.’
