Overview
- McDonald told the Guardian she would "give everything up" to bring back Eddie Rothe, as she returns to TV with a two-part Channel 5 trip to Nashville airing at 9pm.
- She previously disclosed a PTSD diagnosis after Rothe’s death and has moved out of their shared Wakefield bungalow to a nearby seaside property.
- Clearing the house meant sifting through two decades of possessions, and she stayed with close friend Sue Ravey while filling seven skips and choosing to let go of items tied to painful memories.
- Rothe, a drummer with Liquid Gold and later The Searchers, developed lung cancer after a persistent cough, and McDonald became his full-time carer toward the end of his life.
- The couple first dated as teenagers in Wakefield, reunited decades later after meeting on This Morning, and got engaged in 2008, while McDonald’s own career rose after The Cruise in 1998 and years on Loose Women.