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5 News star Dan Walker on final conversation with friend hours before he took his own life: ‘Those were the last things I ever said to him’


5 News host Dan Walker once opened up about the last conversation he ever had with friend Gary Speed just hours before he died.

Dan has said that the tragedy has forever shaped his approach to his job as a journalist. He cited the interview he secured with Paul Ansell, the partner of the late missing woman Nicola Bulley, as an example of a job that he had to handle extremely sensitively. Dan explained that Gary Speed’s heartbreaking death had made a lasting impact on him in this way.

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