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A former X Issue contestant has introduced her father has died simply 11 months after her mom within the lead as much as Christmas.
Emma Chawner, 35, first appeared on the ITV expertise competitors in 2007. She didn’t impress judges Simon Cowell, Sharon Oscbourne and Louis Walsh and returned in 2008 together with her sister, Samantha.
The Chawner household, together with late mother and father Audrey and Philip, went on to seem on quite a few different programmes collectively, together with The Jeremy Kyle Present and Lorraine Kelly’s Large Fats Problem.
Emma shared to Instagram on Sunday, 15 January that her father Philip had died, aged 69. “I can’t consider I’m saying this however my dad sadly handed away this morning,” she wrote.
“Going to overlook him a lot. I don’t know [what] I’m going to do.”
The previous actuality TV star, who has now began a GoFundMe marketing campaign to cowl the £2,200 price of her father’s funeral, was supplied condolences by her followers, together with TV presenter Lorraine Kelly.
“So sorry to your loss Emma,” Kelly wrote, whereas one other follower added: “Am so sorry. Considering of you. Large hugs.”
It comes simply 11 months after Emma’s mom Audrey died, aged 73. The previous X Issue contestant revealed in earlier posts her father had not “been properly” since his spouse’s demise in January.
In November, Emma shared: “Please everybody hold your prayers in for my dad. He hasn’t been properly since my mum handed and I visited him as we speak. He didn’t know who I used to be. Deep down it actually upset me.”
Asserting her mom’s demise firstly of 2024, Emma shared a photograph of Audrey, saying: “RIP my stunning, wonderful mum.”
Providing additional particulars, she added within the caption: “I’m simply letting you all know my mum handed away peacefully in her sleep at 4am this morning.”
The unhappy information continued for Emma as the next day she revealed her canine Ruby had died at 11am that morning. “Going to overlook her a lot,” she mentioned. “What else can go flawed for me?”
On Mom’s Day in March this yr, Emma shared a photograph of a rose and a few butterflies and admitted she was fighting the celebration.
“That is one laborious day for me,” she admitted.
