Jill Thorne: Last News

The professional snooker player passed away at the age of 66 in June this year following a battle with monoblastic leukaemia – and was tragically killed by sepsis three months after his diagnosis.A bitter dispute has broken out over the late sportsman’s prized snooker cue as 60-year-old widow Jill Thorne wants to auction it off in aid of Willie’s favourite cancer charity.However, his children from his first marriage to Fiona Walker – twins Tristan and Kieran, 35, and daughter Tahli, 32 – want the piece of sporting equipment to “remain in the family”.There are also said to be tensions over what to do with Willie’s ashes.Jill says she wants to hold a memorial in the UK then spread the ashes, while his children took his ashes to Orrevieja,

The widow and children of snooker ace Willie Thorne are locked in a dispute over his ashes and his favourite cue.

snooker star Willie Thorne says she’ll never forgive the BBC for sacking him. Jill Thorne said it sent the popular player and TV ­commentator into a spiral of depression and debt from which he never recovered.She added: “It was the start of the end for him.”Willie – who died from leukaemia in June – was axed as a World Championships commentator at the Crucible in 2017 after more than 30 years.It caused an outcry amongst the sport’s top stars,­ ­including seven-time world champion Stephen Hendry.