Loose Women star Jane McDonald has been inundated with supportive messages after it was revealed that her long-term partner, Ed Rothe, had sadly died.A statement on the 58-year-old television star's social media confirmed that Ed - who had been a musician with The Searchers - had passed away at the age of 67 after battling lung cancer.While the couple had officially been together since 2008, their romance actually began a number of decades earlier when they first met in the 1980s.Here, we take a look at their touching story of enduring love and their chance reunion thanks to ITV.
Jane and Ed actually first met in 1980 when Ed's former band Liquid Gold was playing at a local pub in Wakefield.The pair appeared to have hit it off immediately,.
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