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Jill Halfpenny says the tragic sudden death of her partner Matt Janes in 2017 finally helped her grieve her father - who also passed away prematurely 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.

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. Jill Halfpenny told The Sunday Times that the tragic sudden death of her partner Matt Janes finally helped her grieve her late father 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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