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The Chase host Bradley Walsh’s sadness that his dad ‘never got to see’ his success

As the host of The Chase, Bradley Walsh is one of Britain's best-loved stars, but his dad never knew of his success

I’d just done the Royal Variety Show performance which helped launch my career, but my dad died from heart failure two weeks after that and never got to see it,” Bradley mused. And the loss encouraged him to take better care of his health, quitting fatty foods and alcohol to deter the hereditary threat of heart disease. “The mad thing is, listen to this, back in the day when my father was still alive before he became a cabbie in London, I used to go to work with my dad and my uncle Louis, who were roofers,” he shared.

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