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Jill Halfpenny discusses finding love again after the death of her partner Matt Janes as she admits 'it can sometimes feel like a betrayal if you move on'


The Byker Grove actress, 48, felt 'cursed' when she lost Matt in 2017 to a fatal heart attack that mirrored her father Colin's death four decades earlier.

The Byker Grove actress, 48, felt 'cursed' when she lost Matt in 2017 to a fatal heart attack that mirrored her father Colin's death four decades earlier. The actress feels losing Matt, then aged 43, also to a heart attack forced to confront grieving her father, as she spoke to The Sunday Times Magazine about her new book. Jill has now revealed that losing Matt, then aged 43, in the same way forced to confront grieving her father, as she spoke to The Sunday Times about her new book, A Life Reimagined: My Journey of Hope in the Midst of Loss (Picturd in 2016)

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