Tina Humphrey: Last News

Faith Dingle’s devastating final Emmerdale scenes were inspired by the death of a much-loved Britain’s Got Talent contestant, it has been revealed. Tina Humphrey went down in BGT history after wowing viewers of the ITV talent contest with a show-stopping performance with her dog Chandi in 2010 - paving the way for similar acts to follow. But, seven years later, Tina took her own life after enduring an agonising struggle with cancer.

Emmerdale actress Sally Dexter has told how she and the soap's producers were moved to tears after the husband of late Britain's Got Talent contestant Tina Humphrey detailed her tragic death to help with a storyline. Dog trainer Tina - who wowed television audiences with her dancing blue merle collie Chandi and finished fifth in the final of the 2010 series - fought the aggressive form of cancer, metastasised melanoma, for more than a year before she died at the age of 45 in 2017. And her photographer partner Steve, 66, who met Tina in November 2015, recalled for ITV bosses how she made the heartbreaking decision to end her life by swallowing a toxic cocktail of drugs to honour her in an upcoming plot involving Sally's character Faith Dingle.

Britain's Got Talent star Tina Humphrey has said he still remembers her "tortured face" as her attempt at taking her own life turned into a "nightmare".BBC Breakfast welcomed Tina's widower onto the show to discuss the proposed Assisted Dying Bill.Steve featured on Friday's programme to recall the awful experience of when Tina, who was suffering from terminal cancer, tried to end her life but failed.Tina passed away on May 12, 2017, after a battle with cancer but wanted to end her life prior to this herself before she got too ill.The BGT star, who shot to fame in 2012 after wowing the nation with her act with her pooch Chandi, tried to end her own life so she could go "peacefully".Steve explained: "We went into the garden and Tina took a