Tom Parker posthumously nominated for National Television Award for moving cancer doc

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The 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 30 March from an inoperable brain tumour.

He was aged just 33. After his diagnosis, Tom campaigned tirelessly 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 Tom 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, Derek Draper, spent a year in hospital being treated for coronavirus.The Good Morning Britain presenter has been shortlisted this year for her follow-up programme, Caring for Derek, where Derek and Kate shared an insight into their family lives as he continues to battle long-term effects from the virus.

Also nominated in the category is Katie Price: What Harvey Did Next; Julia Bradbury: Breast Cancer And Me; and Paddy and Christine McGuinness: Our Family And Autism.