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BBC'S Lauren Laverne 'utterly heartbroken' as she announces mother's death

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BBC presenter Lauren Laverne has said she is “utterly heartbroken” following the death of her mother Celia on Friday. Laverne, who has been on-site at Worthy Farm hosting Glastonbury coverage for the BBC, announced the news on Instagram.

She wrote in a long post: “Yesterday I lost my Mam, Celia. She was the kindest, most compassionate and most tenacious person I have ever met. “Born in the middle of nine kids, she was a master peacemaker and persuader. “She passed her 11+ and went to grammar school which changed our family’s direction forever. “Met my dad at 16 and loved him every day of her life. “She ran the only reggae club night in the NE and told me that being young in the 60s felt like that line in Mr Tambourine Man “to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free”. “She worked as a seamstress and a casino dancer (also making costumes for the troupe) to pay her way through college and became a wonderful teacher, eventually managing all Sunderland’s colleges. “Somewhere along the line she had me and my brother and got political (she once chased someone from the BNP down our garden path with a rolling pin in one hand and me in the other arm) protested at Greenham Common and eventually became a city councillor.” Desert Island Discs host Laverne added that her mum “delighted” in helping people and thanked the teams at University College London Hospital who cared for her at the end of her life. “She had watched so many decades of history documentaries that when we met historian Michael Wood they chatted away like colleagues. “She loved children and was the most devoted and adored mother and grandmother you could ever meet.

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