Inside Jane McDonald's love life from reunion with childhood sweetheart to tragic death
ok.co.ukLoose Women's Jane McDonald is heading off on a new adventure across the Canary Islands and we take a look back at her heartbreaking love life.The 60 year old has achieved huge successes in her career as a television star, but has sadly been much less fortunate in her love life away from the cameras.
In March 2021, Jane's childhood sweetheart and partner of 13 years, Walter 'Eddie' Rothe, tragically passed away at the age of 67, after being diagnosed with lung cancer.The couple first met in 1980 when Jane worked part-time in a pub in West Yorkshire, and Eddie's pop band Liquid Gold played a gig there.
Of their early romance, Jane told the Mirror back in 2012: "I couldn't believe it when the owner said the drummer had taken a fancy to me.
I was startled. "He was a gorgeous pop star and I was a naive teenager from Yorkshire. But we went out for about 18 months." However, Jane said that she was too young, "shy" and "prim and proper" to enjoy the rock 'n' roll lifestyle of Eddie at the time, who she said was much desired by other girls. "One day, I just got in my car and left.
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