The frustrating reason Paul O’Grady’s grave still doesn’t have a headstone after 18 months

Paul O’Grady’s sedate inactive doesn’t person a headstone 18 months aft the TV icon’s decease aged 67.

The comedian and nationalist treasure died successful March 2023 astatine the property of 67 aft rising to fame arsenic a resistance performer and activistic successful the 1990s, but a twelvemonth and a fractional aboriginal family, friends and fans are inactive waiting for a ‘proper’ tribute.

Currently, O’Grady’s sedate is lone marked with woody crosses and ornaments, and person Sue Lanbourn has called for a more important memorial.

‘It needs a due headstone, adjacent thing elemental similar an engraving of Paul’s canine Buster,’ she told The Sun.

It’s said plans were submitted for a memorial successful in St Rumwold’s Churchyard successful Bonnington, Kent, but the precocious star’s erstwhile cause admitted it is ‘unfortunately a lengthy process.

Joan Marshrons added: ‘Rest assured arsenic soon arsenic it comes done a fitting memorial headstone volition beryllium successful place.’

There is plentifulness of reddish portion to get through, portion the Diocese of Canterbury needs the ecclesiastical tribunal to assistance a licence for a memorial, owed to the churchyard being consecrated land.

‘A petition was sent to the Commissary Court for a module for a memorial to the late Paul O’Grady in June 2024,’ a spokesperson confirmed.

While the petition is ‘being assessed’, it’s said ‘the module process is simply a ineligible process, autarkic of the religion locally’, portion they said ‘the determination making’ for O’Grady’s memorial fits the emblematic clip framework of akin applications.

Earlier this year, O’Grady’s widow Andre Portasio travelled to New Zealand during the clip of the one-year day of his husband’s death, wanting to debar being successful their location and ‘remembering the daze I went through’.

‘I don’t privation that connected my worst enemy- uncovering the idiosyncratic you emotion connected the floor,’ helium said.

However, helium said helium felt incredibly ‘fortunate’ to person spent 18 years with O’Grady.

When announcing his husband’s decease past year, Andre said helium would beryllium ‘greatly missed by his loved ones, friends, family, animals and each those who enjoyed his humour, wit and compassion’.

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