It’s been almost two years since Kelsey Parker’s world fell apart. Two years ago today her husband, Tom Parker – a singer with pop band The Wanted – passed away after a brave battle with brain cancer. On top of the overwhelming grief of losing the love of her life at such a young age, Kelsey was left to bring up their two children, Aurelia, now four, and Bodhi, now three, without their doting father by her side.
“Grief’s a funny thing, isn’t it?” she said. “Living grief and going through it… For me, I am the preacher of, ‘You’ve got to live for each day and take each day as it comes.’ But I think when I hit March, I’m like, ‘Oh my God,’ and I can’t believe it’s actually been two years since I lost Tom.” It’s hard to forget the images of a devastated Kelsey leading the cortege, while Max George carried the coffin alongside fellow band members Jay McGuiness, Siva Kaneswaran and Nathan Sykes, and flowers spelling out the word “Daddy” were carried into the church.
As Kelsey – an actress, vlogger and co-founder of K2K Performing Arts School – has reminisced fondly, she and Tom met in a nightclub in 2009, and life with her famous other half was “never dull”. The pair got engaged in 2016 and tied the knot two years later, before welcoming their two children into the world.