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How Jonnie Irwin’s wife told their children he had died and why they didn’t have a final kiss and cuddle with their dad

The wife of Jonnie Irwin has shared how she told their three young children how their beloved dad had died

News The devastated children of Jonnie Irwin weren’t “blissfully unaware” their dad was dying but didn’t have tearful final kisses and cuddles with the doting A Place in the Sun star, his wife has shared. Jess, who shared sons Rex, five, and four-year-old twins Cormac and Rafa with Jonnie, has also revealed the moment she told the little boys their dad had died and “gone to heaven”. Speaking to the Daily Mail, Jess said she and Jonnie took the decision not to destroy their sons’ happiness by telling them outright that he was dying.

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