Lorraine Kelly has revealed that Dame Deborah James deliberate her personal funeral, after the most cancers campaigner was laid to relaxation in an intimate service on Wednesday (20 July).
The TV host known as the funeral “perfection, as you would expect” whereas showing on Good Morning Britain on Thursday morning (21 July).
James died on 28 June, six years after being recognized with stage-four bowel most cancers. In the months earlier than her dying, she raised over £7.4m for Cancer Research UK by means of her BowelBabe fund.
The funeral was a small service in Barnes for shut household in pals. Some of James’ celeb pals like Kelly and Giovanna Fletcher have been in attendance.
“We celebrated the life of a truly incredible person yesterday, our Dame Deborah,” Kelly stated throughout her GMB look.
“She is remarkable. It was beautiful, so beautiful, such a celebration of an amazing, amazing woman. There were a lot of tears and there really was genuinely a lot of laughs too, so it was great.
“She planned it all and it was perfection, as you would expect.”
James’ coffin arrived in a classic Rolls-Royce hearse with a dozen of her relations strolling behind it, together with her husband Sebastien Bowen, and their youngsters Hugo, 14, and Eloise, 12.
Later on her namesake present, Kelly added: “I was very honoured to be there with some of our team. It was a beautiful send-off, it was so lovely and it was sad but it was also a celebration of a wonderful wonderful woman.
“Hugo wrote a poem for his mum and her husband said the most beautiful eulogy, it was sad but also very very uplifting. Her legacy is also her children and they are incredible incredible young people.”
Kelly added that James achieved “more in the last days of her life than most of us do in our whole lives”.
She continued: “The amount of money she raised was astonishing. She will never ever be forgotten. Yesterday a whole bunch of people said we would get a tattoo with rebellious hope and I think I agreed to that.”
Source: www.unbiased.co.uk
