JAMAL Edwards told how he wanted to meet his real dad three years before the star's tragic death. In 2019 he told The Diary of a CEO with Steven Bartlett podcast that he'd searched for the dad he never met.
The 31-year-old passed away suddenly on Sunday from a suspected heart attack. Telling host Steven he was from the Caribbean, Jamal said: "This is going off topic, but I'd like to find my real dad one day and know what that side is. "Yeah well I don't know.
I've done that ancestory thing. I don't know how real that is? "That's a whole kettle of fish. That's a whole other conversation." It is unclear whether Jamal ever found his biological father before Sunday's tragedy.
The podcast offered a fascinating insight into Jamal's rise from a media student working in Topshop to a multi-millionaire who gained fame from setting up music platform SBTV in 2006.
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