Simon Thomas breaks silence on finding love again after wife's tragic death
10 December 2018, 15:25 | Updated: 1 April 2019, 08:11
Former TV presenter Simon Thomas has found love a year after he tragically lost his wife to cancer, just three days after she was diagnosed.
Simon Thomas, 45, has opened up about finding love after suffering the heartache of losing his wife, Gemma, to acute myeloid leukaemia a year ago at the age of 40.
The former TV presenter, who quit his duties to focusing on raising his nine-year-old son Ethan, told Loose Women that he didn't expect enter a new relationship so early, but 'just wants to be happy again'.
He told the Loose Women panel: "It's early stages but you have to try and find some kind of life again.
"I just think you've have two choices when people go through something like this; you ether give up on life and remain in a cave - and for some people, if that's what they want to do that's fine - it's not for any of us to judge.
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"I just want to be happy again... and I know Gemma would want that too."
He added: "I didn’t expect to be in a relationship this early, I really didn't, but when it comes you think well why not, why can’t I be happy?"
When asked by the Loose Women team how he managed to keep going through the dark times, he responded: "Because I have to, because a 9 year old boy keeps you going."
Simon also revealed that his son Ethan went back to school a week after he'd lost his mum, in order to try and inject some normality back into his life.
However, Simon admitted that it was a tough transition for Ethan to have to adjust to.
He explained: "For him going to school was such a lonely experience, he would say ‘No kids in my class have been through this they don’t know understand its like not to have a mummy any more’.
"He sees mums all the times and is presented every day with the same reality that he’s never ever going to see his mum at a school gate ever again."
In order to raise more awareness about blood cancer, Simon teased that he is planning to embark on some sponsored activities next year.