{"id":43550,"date":"2025-07-22T13:47:04","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T12:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tvguide.co.uk\/emmerdale-insider\/?p=43550"},"modified":"2025-07-22T13:47:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T12:47:04","slug":"classic-emmerdale-fans-tears-len-death-shows-how-good-used-to-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tvguide.co.uk\/emmerdale-insider\/classic-emmerdale\/classic-emmerdale-fans-tears-len-death-shows-how-good-used-to-be\/","title":{"rendered":" Classic Emmerdale fans in floods of tears over Len’s death: ‘Shows how good it used to be’"},"content":{"rendered":"

In devastating scenes in Classic Emmerdale on ITV3 on Monday July 21 Len Reynolds died peacefully while Katherine Jenkins sang<\/a> Time To Say Goodbye.<\/p>

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The death came during the village\u2019s 500th anniversary celebrations and was remembered by many as being incredibly sad. And those rewatching it yesterday couldn\u2019t have agreed more.<\/p>\n

In fact, with Emmerdale increasingly under fire for it\u2019s far-fetched and dragging on plots<\/a>, this hailed back to a simpler time that created just as much drama, but without so much fanfare.<\/p>\n

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Len Reynold\u2019s death was a surprise to fans (Credit: ITV\/Shutterstock)<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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Len dies in Classic Emmerdale<\/h2>\n

There was drama aplenty yesterday, in the episodes that first aired on May 18, 2007. The King brothers were in court for the murder of their father, Tom<\/a>, but it was Carl who confessed to Jimmy and Matthew he had done it.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere the rest of the village was gearing up for the pageant. Chaos broke out when Jo and Katie fought at the beauty contest, and the floats saw a rampaging pig and one on fire!<\/p>

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