Mark Wright shares emotional tribute as heartbroken star’s grandad dies aged 92
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MARK Wright has shared an emotional tribute to his grandad after he died at the age of 92. Eddie, a former champion boxer and paramedic, was admitted to hospital last June after a fall, but sadly never made a recovery. And he passed away on Monday night surrounded by his family and loved ones.
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Now, Mark, 37, has shared a photo of them together suited and booted by a pond on his Instagram, and wrote a tribute to him in the form of a lengthy post. The Towie star penned to fans: “For 37 years that I have known you Grandad, I wondered and even asked you when I was a little boy numerous times “when do you think you will go to heaven” I posed this question often, because I dreaded it so much.
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“I’ve had messages from hundreds of people, some I haven’t seen in over 20 years. EVERY message has the same words written in some way. GENTLEMAN - KIND - LEGEND!!. “All these things you were and more. You loved your family so much and your biggest success is how close we all are and how many of us there is. You never got angry, you backed us no matter what, you never said no, even when I asked you to come on my stag do in Vegas at 83 😊 (you still hold the record for the only person ever to order a cup of tea in a Vegas nightclub at 2am).”.
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Mark continued: “If you told us off for being little s**** growing up, you’d apologise. “You waved us off from the window every time we left your house & even 3 hours before you fell asleep forever, short of breath & not much energy left, you uttered the words “il come down and see you off son” that sums you up, you put EVERYONE first.
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