PRESENTER and entertainer Jane McDonald sadly announced yesterday her fiancé Eddie 'Ed' Rothe had passed away from lung cancer.
The Loose Women panellist, 58, and 67-year-old Ed, a drummer in Sixties band, The Searchers, had been together since 2008 although their love story actually began decades earlier.
As teenagers, the pair had a fleeting romance in 1980 after they met in a pub Jane worked at on the side from her retail job in Wakefield.
Ed's band Liquid Gold was playing a gig at the boozer after they hit the number two spot with their single, Dance Yourself Dizzy.
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