Lesbian Emmerdale star Michelle Hardwick (right) with her wife Kate Brooks at the DIVA Magazine Awards at the The Waldorf Hilton, Aldwych, London. (Getty/ Keith Mayhew/SOPA Images/LightRocket) Lesbian Emmerdale star Michelle Hardwick has received a torrent of homophobic abuse for posting a picture of her 10-week-old baby. Hardwick has starred as Vanessa Woodfield on the