Emmerdale actor to fulfil wife’s dying wish to run marathon for cancer charity

Tony Audenshaw, who plays Bob Hope in Emmerdale, will run the TCS London Marathon for the charity Pancreatic Cancer UK after his wife Ruth died from the disease (Jeff Moore/Pancreatic Cancer UK/PA) -

Emmerdale actor Tony Audenshaw will fulfil his wife’s dying wish by running the TCS London Marathon to raise money to develop a new diagnostic test for pancreatic cancer which could save thousands of lives.

Audenshaw, who has played Bob Hope for 25 years, last ran the London Marathon in 2015, but said “it just felt right” to return to support the event’s charity of the year, Pancreatic Cancer UK, on what would have been the couple’s 24th wedding anniversary.