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Feeling old? Real-life TV kid siblings become unrecognizable as they turn 18 | soaps

Feeling old? Real-life TV kid siblings become unrecognizable as they turn 18 | soaps

Emmerdale stars Alfie Clarke, Rebecca Bakes, Gabrielle Dowling, Susan Cookson, Sebastian Dowling and Amelia Flanagan at the Dowling twins' 18th birthday party
Emmerdale stars reunited for the special (Image: Instagram / Gabrielle Dowling)

Emmerdale Child stars Gabrielle and Sebastian Dowling just turned 18 and we’re feeling old now.

The twins worked together ITV Soap like Cathy and Heath Hope, until Heath killed in early 2024With Sebastian leaving the role.

After Cathy, Heath and Angelica King (Rebecca Bakes) went for a joy ride in a car, tragedy struck when Angel crashed and Heath tragically died.

This caused great tension between Cathy and my father. Bob Hope (Tony Audenshaw), WHO He believed his daughter was responsible Long time for Heath’s death.

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Cathy and Heath sit across from each other at a table in the Emmerdale B&B.
Sebastian and Gabrielle look very different away from the soap (Image: ITV/Mark Bruce/REX/Shutterstock)

In the last scenes, Melek returned to the village After some time in the juvenile detention center, she managed to make amends with Bob.

Now the cast of Emmerdale have reunited to celebrate Sebastian and Gabrielle’s milestone birthday.

The twins were joined by Arthur Thomas actor Alfie Clarke, April Windsor actor Amelia Flanagan, Wendy Posner star Susan Cookson and Rebecca Bakes.

Editorial use only Mandatory Credit: Photo: ITV/REX/Shutterstock (9695628bl) Ep 8176 Thursday 14 June 2018 - Ep 1 Brenda Waker, played by Lesley Dunlop, is upset to hear that Cathy and Heath have gone to the cinema with Laurel Thomas. As played by Charlotte Bellamy. She explains that she's going to a hot yoga class, but Laurel can't tell she's lying. 'Emmerdale' TV Series UK - 2018 Emmerdale Farm is a long-running British soap opera set in Emmerdale, a fictional village in the Yorkshire Dales. Created by Kevin Laffan, it was first broadcast on 16 October 1972 and produced by ITV Yorkshire.
Sebastian and Gabrielle grew up in Emmerdale (Image: ITV/REX/Shutterstock)

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In a photo posted to Gabrielle’s Instagram account, her co-stars posed for the photo and Sebastian was almost unrecognizable as he sported a much shorter hairstyle than his Dales counterpart.

Fellow Emmerdale star Michelle Hardwick, who plays Vanessa Woodfield, was quick to comment on the post and tagged it ‘Beautiful’.