Strictly star Jill Halfpenny opens up about new love after partner's tragic death

Strictly's Jill Halfpenny opens up about new love after partner's tragic death (Image: GETTY) Jill Halfpenny opened up about dealing with grief following the sudden death of her partner Matt Janes. He tragically suffered a heart attack at the gym and died at the age of 43 in 2017. The Cuckoo actress has opened up about her feelings of loss and admitted she has since found love with new partner Ian at "right time".

Addressing her former love's death which was in shockingly similar circumstances to Jill’s father, who she lost at the age of four, when he went to play football and never came home, she told Prima magazine : “There was a sense of feeling cursed when Matt died after what happened to my dad. "Like, how can that happen twice? That drove me to therapy to investigate those feelings because I thought, ‘I’m not going to live alongside that narrative.’” function loadOvpScript(){let el=document.

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