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Kate Lally

Jane McDonald steps back from limelight after losing fiancé

Jane McDonald has shared she is "slowing down" and taking a step back from touring after losing her long-term partner Eddie Rothe.

Jane and Liquid Gold star Ed were an item in their younger days, before getting back together after a chance meeting backstage at ITV years later. Ed died in April last year, aged 67, after a battle with lung cancer.

Speaking to Kaye Adams on the How to be 60 podcast, Jane said: "We had lots of plans. And I think that's part of grief as well is that you go through the normal grief and the terrible, terrible time and then you grieve the life that you thought you were gonna have.

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