Who was Simon Thomas wife Gemma, when did she die and who is his new girlfriend?
Simon Thomas has bravely appeared on This Morning numerous times to open up about losing his wife Ge..
Simon Thomas is to give blood today, live on This Morning, as part of a new goal he has set himself to take on a new challenge every day for a month to raise money in memory of his late wife, Gemma.
The former Blue Peter presenter is taking on 30 challenges in 30 days throughout September to raise funds and awareness of blood cancer after losing his wife Gemma to an aggressive form of blood cancer.
On his Just Giving page, where Simon is fundraising whilst participating in the challenges, he wrote: Well never get Gemma back. But in the months after her death, I formed the Gemma Thomas Fund with Bloodwise. It will invest money into research on blood cancers such as AML to prevent other families suffering such devastating loss.
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If me taking on a few challenges can raise awareness and help make sure other families dont have to go through the same thing we did, then it will be worth a little temporary embarrassment.
Who was Simon Thomas wife Gemma?
Simons wife, Gemma Thomas, studied at the University of Sheffield before going on to work at the electoral commission.
Gemma and Simon tied-the-knot in 2005 and were married for 12 years before her tragic and sudden death.
The couple had one son together, a boy called Ethan who was just eight-years-old when his mum died.
When did Gemma die?
Simons wife Gemma tragically died in 2017, aged just 40.
She passed away suddenly on November 24, a mere three days after being diagnosed with acute myeloid leukaemia.
Acute myeloid leukaemia is an aggressive form of cancer of the myeloid cells, with only 3,100 cases in the UK each year, mostly in people over 80.
Symptoms of the disease include unusual bruising and bleeding, feeling tired, losing weight and breathlessness.
The former Sky Sports presenter wrote a book on his experience of dealing with grief, called Love, Interrupted: Navigating Grief One Day At A Time, in which he describes the guilt he felt after Gemmas sudden death about not insisting on medical help sooner for her.
In her final week, she went to the GP twice, but each time was sent home without even a blood test. Whenever I relive that time in my mind, the guilt is always there, nagging away at me, he wrote.
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Im still asking myself those same questions: “Why the hell didnt you do something? Why didnt you pick her up, carry her to the car and take her straight to hospital before it got so bad?”.
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Who is Simon Thomas new girlfriend?
A year after Gemmas untimely death, Simon revealed he is now dating 27-year-old Derrina Jebb, with the star calling her an amazing woman who has stood shoulder to shoulder with me in some of my darkest hours and has become a rock not just for me, but for my boy, too, when talking to Anna Foster on BBC Radio 5 Live.
Derrina, a Christian like Simon, is the daughter of a church minister and works in the legal industry.
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