Des O’Connor: British entertainer had been privately diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease years before his death

msn.com:

Des O’Connor had been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease prior to his death, his wife Jodie Brooke Wilson revealed. The British TV legend died aged 88 on 14 November last year following a fall at his home.

Speaking to The Daily Mail, Wilson revealed that O’Connor had been diagnosed with Parkinson’s three years before his death, but “dealt with it very privately”.

Wilson said: “He didn’t want people to feel sorry for him and for it to be what they first thought about when they saw him. ”“He was diagnosed in 2017 but he thinks he had had it for a while,” she added.

Wilson, who had been married to O’Connor for 13 years, recalled that the entertainer had first noticed “seeing a tremor” when he starred in a London Palladium production of The.