"Singer Jamie hid tragedy of wife’s death from judges
TODAY we can reveal the secret heartache behind Britain’s Got Talent’s latest Welsh star Jamie Pugh.
Millions of viewers last night saw the 37-year-old cruise into the next round of the ITV1 contest with glowing praise from judges Simon Cowell, Amanda Holden and Piers Morgan.
The pizza delivery driver, dubbed the show’s most nervous contestant ever, conquered his lifelong terror of singing in public to give a moving version of Bring Him Home from West End musical Les Misérables.
But he hid the tragedy that struck 10 years ago – the death of his beloved wife Tracey, the mother of their three-year-old son Callum – from all who watched the show in an attempt to avoid the “sympathy vote”.
The 27-year-old died from a brain tumour, making Jamie a widower in just his 20s – and the former RAF engineer has battled since to rebuild his life.
Paul and Melanie Cole, who lived next door to Jamie and his late wife in Blackwood, Gwent, said he was a “broken man” when their “beautiful friend” died.
Melanie, 37, said: “Tracey and I would chat over the fence in our back gardens but then for a month or so she didn’t come out. I asked Jamie where she’d been and he told me she was very poorly – a brain tumour, he said." -jamiepugh.net
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