Tonicha Jeronimo

Tonicha Jeronimo (born 4th November 1977 in Jersey) portrayed Linda Fowler in Emmerdale between 1994 and 1997.
She has also appeared in My Wonderful Bride and Where the Heart Is.
Tonicha has been married to Stuart Wade, who played Linda's husband Biff Fowler, since 2000 and they have two children.
Tonicha has since left the acting industry and in 2003, trained to be a police officer, although, in 2016, she appeared in Casualty alongside her daughter Sydney Wade under her married name Tonicha Lawrence.
After leaving, Jeronimo was vocally critical of the show, speaking to The Mirror in January 1998 about her negative experiences with producers. She revealed how she had major skin problems, caused by hair dye, after Producer Mervyn Watson told her there were too many blondes on the show and pushed her to dye her hair. This, combined with what Jeronimo felt were constant depressing storylines, pushed her to quit the role, planning to leave by the end of the end of her contract in December 1997. Watson asked Jeronimo to reconsider, but, after refusing, was told wouldn't be needed past 2nd September. Jeronimo later stated, "I'm not sure why they did it. But knowing how penny-pinching they are, it was probably to save themselves six weeks' wages." Jeronimo also revealed that she learned about her character's exit through her cast members and that bosses hadn't even bothered to tell her, claiming that, while Watson told her it was down the writers, the writers had stated that killing Linda off was the last thing they wanted to do. Jeronimo also commented that Watson gave her the same farewell speech as he had given to Jane Cameron, who played the Tates' nanny, two weeks earlier - “Only our names were different. It was another way of showing how little we mattered."
Category:Emmerdale actors