Tony Christie and his wife Sue Christie joined Loose Women to discuss the early signs of the singer's dementia and how the couple are moving forward with the diagnosis together.
Host Coleen Nolan asked: "What were the signs initially?"
Tony, 80, who revealed he had been diagnosed with the disease in January, replied: "I've been a crossword addict for all my life, basically cryptic [crosswords] and I suddenly started having problems solving and forgetting names. And it was my wife Sue that said, ‘I think we should go and see a specialist.’"