Tess Daly has shared her heartbreak implicit her father's tragic death, revealing helium ne'er got the accidental to spot her connected Strictly Come Dancing. In a 2010 interview, Tess opened up astir her parents Sylvia and Vivian, confessing that dealing with her father's decease 7 years earlier was "so difficult".
Tess' dada Vivian sadly passed distant from emphysema successful 2003 portion she was connected honeymoon with hubby Vernon Kay, conscionable 18 days aft their wedding. Emphysema, arsenic defined by the NHS, is simply a information wherever the aerial sacs successful the lungs are damaged. "I miss him terribly due to the fact that helium was conscionable specified a beardown relation exemplary successful my life," she told The Guardian. "The antheral by whom I judged each others, really, due to the fact that helium was specified an honourable and motivation idiosyncratic who would ne'er harm different being."
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Getty Images)Tess, 55, besides revealed her biggest regret - that her begetter ne'er got to conscionable his grandchildren. Describing her father, she said: "Just a positive, outgoing... a large feline truly and a superb begetter and I bash truly privation helium could person met his grandchildren. That's my top regret, that helium ne'er met his grandchildren," reports OK!.
In a 2020 interrogation with the Daily Mail, Tess, mum to Phoebe, 19, and Amber, 14, discussed juggling Strictly Come Dancing with motherhood. She was large with her archetypal kid during the filming of the show's archetypal bid and returned to the 2nd fractional of the 2nd bid conscionable six weeks aft giving birth. Tess opened up astir her idiosyncratic heartache, revealing, "My dada had died the erstwhile year. He ne'er got to conscionable my children – which is my biggest regret, helium would've loved them," and added, "But helium ne'er got to spot maine bash Strictly either, and helium would person been truthful proud. He loved Bruce Forsyth. He adored ballroom, each of it."
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Instagram)Tess has been a staple connected our TV screens since she began presenting Strictly Come Dancing successful 2004. Meanwhile, her hubby Vernon Kay is making waves with his mid-morning amusement connected BBC Radio 2. In a candid chat with OK! successful 2022, Vernon shared insights into wherefore he's ne'er strutted his worldly connected the creation floor: "I've ne'er been asked, to beryllium honorable with you," helium confessed. When probed if it could beryllium owed to Tess hosting the show, helium added, "I ne'er thought of that," and continued, "I'm bully friends with galore of them, I play golf with Anton. So possibly that is wherefore they haven't asked me. I bash bask the process of getting to cognize the dancers, I bask watching their rehearsal tapes and I bask sitting down with Tess and watching It Takes Two."