George's little girl wrote to Santa and asked for Daddy to come back

WHEN little Amelie Gilbey wrote her Christmas list for Santa this year, she made a heartbreaking plea: she would happily give up all her presents if he could "bring my daddy back".

- GEMMA MCCARTNEY

The eight-year-old lost her dad Gogglebox and Celebrity Big Brother star George Gilbey - earlier this year in a horror fall.

George, a self-employed electrician, fell 80ft through a skylight while working on a roof and died from traumatic injuries. He was just 40.

This year will be the first Christmas his daughter and his mum Amelie's grandma Linda McGarry have been without him.

And Linda, who starred on Channel 4's Gogglebox for years with her son and her late husband Pete, says Amelie desperately misses her dad.

She says: "She's done her Christmas list and it will break your heart. It says, 'You can forget all of that if you bring my daddy back'.

"They had Daddies Day [at school] and a girl was crying because her parents had broken up and Amelie said, 'My a daddy's always with me everywhere I go. He's in my heart"."

George died in March while working on a warehouse in Shoeburyness, Essex. Despite an air ambulance being called, he died at the scene.

At the opening of an inquest into his death in April, Essex coroner's court heard he had fallen through a plastic skylight and that his injuries were "consistent with a fall from height".

Police and the Health and Safety Executive launched a joint investigation. Two men were arrested on suspicion of gross negligence manslaughter.

One was released under investigation and the other released on bail.