THIS Morning paid an emotional tribute to The Wanted singer Tom Parker today after his tragic death aged 33.
Presenters Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield sent a heartfelt message to Tom’s wife Kelsey, 32, following his tragic passing from brain cancer.
Holly, 41, extended her sympathy to his family following his death and said: “It’s so sad and completely heartbreaking. There’s no right time to go, but 33 is so young.”
Phillip added: “If there is any good to come out of this, it’s that he was such an inspiration and such a positive force.
“He was a friend of the show and had been on here a number of times and there are people up and down the country going through exactly the same thing… he was so incredibly positive.”
Holly added, “On behalf of the show and all us here, we send our love to Kelsey and the whole family, we’re thinking of you lots.”
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Ben Shephard and Susanna Reid also paid tribute to Tom on Good Morning Britain.
Ben, 47, said: “You could see he was so full of energy and fun and I think that the band getting back together was very much centred around his illness and his diagnosis and they were still making plans for what was going to happen.
“It was so lovely to have him with them and them all together.”
Susanna, 51, added: “It was very noticeable how much they cared for him behind the scenes as well. Even though he still had lots of energy, and he was smiling and laughing, they really had that arm around him the whole time, that they were there.
“We are so sad about this, Tom, tragically young, 33 years old, incredibly cruel what has happened to him.”
Choreographer and former Strictly Come Dancing judge Dame Arlene Phillip described To as a “sweetheart”.
Speaking on BBC Breakfast, Dame Arlene, 78, said: “He worked so hard, he was phenomenal.”
Dame Arlene worked with Parker on the set of Grease The Musical in London’s West End.
Bolton-born Parker was cast as Danny Zuko in the musical’s UK tour in 2017, and Dame Arlene choreographed the show.
She recalled helping Parker after he told her he could not dance.
“I first worked with him on Grease, where he had to do Born To Hand Jive, the biggest dance in the whole musical, and he said ‘No, I don’t dance’, and I said ‘Well you’re going to have to’.
“He said ‘Well I’m strong’, and we had a wonderful partner working with him… And actually what happened, Tom Parker – who really couldn’t dance – I think has probably done the best Danny cha cha dance of anybody I have ever choreographed for.
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“He worked so hard, he was phenomenal.
“He absolutely loved performing and he seemed to be able to battle through anything and everything, and he cast it aside in a way that just shocked me.”
She also extended her sympathy to Tom’s widow Kelsey, saying: “His absolutely beautiful wife Kelsey, to lose the dad of her children, her partner, so sweet and kind and loving, the two of them, it would touch your heart just to watch them together and the love for each other.
“It’s a terrible, terrible loss.”
The Wanted star died on Wednesday surrounded by close friends and family, 17 months after announcing he had been diagnosed with a brain tumour.
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