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Jonnie Irwin death: Channel 4's A Place in the Sun bosses and BBC's Escape To The Country execs pay tribute as beloved presenter dies aged 50 after cancer battle


Bosses of Jonnie Irwin's television shows A Place In The Sun and Escape to the Country paid tribute to the presenter on Friday following his death at the age of 50 from cancer.

'More recently, he did some truly inspirational reports for Morning Live about his illness, tackling taboos around end of life care, and wonderfully demonstrating the limitless positivity that he brought to everything he did. A Place in The Sun's Jonnie Irwin has tragically lost his battle with lung cancer aged 50, his wife Jessica Holmes announced in a heartbreaking tribute on Friday Jonnie also starred in Channel 4's Renovation Game, which ran for three seasons from 2011, and saw builders and designers put their fees on the line if they do not raise the property value of a house during a revamp.

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