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Legendary 80s TV ad hunk died at 59 after battling secret illness - leaving partner devastated


Madonna's protege Nick Kamen's partner Lucinda Carey spoke out about his 'beautiful' death, after he passed away at the age of 59 in 2021 after battling bone cancer for three years

Best remembered as Madonna' s protege and the star of an iconic Levi jean's advert in which he stripped to his boxer shorts in a launderette, model and singer Nick Kamen sadly never returned to the spotlight after his eighties heyday, and died at the age of 59 in 2021. The star, who had a 1986 hit, Each Time You Break My Heart, that was written by Madonna herself, passed away at his home in Notting Hill after a three-year battle with bone cancer. Lucinda revealed that Nick, who knew for three years that his death was imminent, "loved" the medical staff who cared for him at Hammersmith Hospital, west London.

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