Tom Parker posthumously nominated for National Television Award for cancer film
manchestereveningnews.co.ukThe Wanted’s Tom Parker has been posthumously shortlisted for a National Television Award for a documentary about the charity concert in aid of cancer research he organised six months before his death.
The singer died in a hospice near his south-east London home on March 30 from an inoperable brain tumour at the age of 33. After his diagnosis, Parker campaigned for brain tumour awareness and organised a star-studded concert, called Inside My Head, at the Royal Albert Hall last September which raised money for Stand Up To Cancer and The National Brain Appeal.
The Channel 4 documentary of the same name captured Parker arranging the event alongside footage of him and his family learning to live with his illness.
He will go up against Kate Garraway, who won the authored documentary category last year for a programme about her family’s life after her husband, former political adviser Derek Draper, spent a year in hospital being treated for coronavirus.
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