Jonnie Irwin's agony Widow talks about the last days of the cancer-stricken TV star
On February 2, 2024, British TV presenter Jonnie Irwin (50) died as a result of lung cancer. Now his widow Jessica Holmes talks about his fight against death in an emotional interview.
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- The fate of British TV presenter Jonnie Irwin is not only touching people in his home country.
- On February 2, 2024, the TV presenter died of lung cancer at the age of 50 after a year-long battle.
- At the moment of his death, Irwin was lying in his wife's arms while listening to his three sons play. "A terrible moment", as his widow now reveals in an interview.
The fate of Jonnie Irwin not only moved people in his home country of Great Britain to tears. The TV presenter died on February 2, 2024 at the age of 50.
Irwin was diagnosed with terminal lung cancer in August 2020. According to his doctors, the journalist only had six months to live. The predicted six months turned into almost three years of life.
In November 2022, Jonnie Irwin made his cancer diagnosis public. He subsequently gave regular insights into his life and that of his family on social media.
Jessica Holmes: "A terrible moment"
The presenter of the TV show "A Place In The Sun" not only showed the beautiful moments with his wife Jessica Holmes and their three children, but also addressed the exhausting cancer treatments.
Now his widow has revealed further details of her late husband's life in an interview with the British Daily Mail.
At the moment of his death, the TV presenter was lying in his wife's arms while listening to his three sons play. "A terrible moment," says Holmes.
He continued: "People always say: 'He fell asleep peacefully. It was beautiful. But it wasn't for Jonnie. It was a bloody awful process."
She didn't want to watch her husband die, says Jessica Holmes. But at the same time, she wanted to stand by him. Shortly before he died, she asked the carers what she could do for her husband. "They said: 'There's nothing you can do for him. Just be there for him'."
Jonnie Irwin: "I'm sorry to leave you all"
At the end of his life, Jonnie Irwin did not want to go into a hospice. He died at his home in Newcastle - "surrounded by love", says his widow in the Daily Mail.
In the weeks before his death, visitors regularly came to say goodbye to him. Her husband "fought to the end because he didn't want to go".
Despite being in great pain, he never complained. On the contrary. At the end, Jonnie Irwin apologized for having to leave his family so early: "I'm sorry to leave you all."
Irwin's ashes are scattered under a plant
The couple had not told their sons that their father would soon die. Jonnie Irwin and Jessica Holmes wanted the children to be able to collect beautiful memories instead of being consumed by fears of loss.
She also didn't talk to her husband about the funeral, Holmes told the Daily Mail: "Jonnie would have hated to think about it."
Instead, the widow organized the funeral service the way her late husband would have liked it - from the songs that were played to the clothes he wore.
Jonnie Irwin's ashes will be scattered in the fall under an evergreen plant that stands on a piece of land owned by Jessica Holmes' family.
