James Morrison’s wife Gill Catchpole found dead at home

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Gill Catchpole, the wife of musician James Morrison, has died at the age of 45, in line with stories.

The mom of two daughters – aged 5 and 15 – was found dead at their household home in Gloucestershire on Friday, a pal was reported as saying.

There had been no suspicious circumstances surrounding her demise, the supply informed The Sun.

“Gill was found dead on Friday at the family’s home in Whitminster. James is devastated and is being supported by his family,” they mentioned.

“He is holding it together for their girls but has asked for the family to be left alone to grieve in private.”

The couple had been collectively for 20 years, after assembly when Gill moved into James’s mom’s home as a lodger when he was simply 17 years outdated.

The Brit Award-winning songwriter additionally revealed in 2015 that he had taken day out of the music business after struggling the lack of his father in 2010, who died of liver problems introduced on by alcohol dependancy, shortly earlier than each his older brother and 21-year-old nephew additionally died within the area of a 12 months.

“Spiritually, I had the wind kicked out of me. I stopped believing the world was good,” he informed The Independent at the time.

Morrison – who rose to fame in 2006 with debut single “You Give Me Something” – beforehand described assembly Gill as a “fairytale” and recalled attempting to impress her by “serenading” her with songs from a Stevie Wonder album he had been studying at the time.

“When she moved in, I started singing all the songs off that album to her. I was playing all of that stuff on the acoustic guitar,” Morrison, now aged 39, informed the podcast White Wine Question Time.

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“I’m not like: ‘I love romance.’ But I do find certain things romantic and the fact that we met each other the way we did. It’s like a little fairytale or something.”

While the pair “had a connection straight away”, she had a boyfriend after they first met, so it was two years earlier than they bought collectively. “I didn’t want to tell her that I fell in love with her the first moment I set eyes on her because I didn’t know, I never fell in love before,” he mentioned in 2021.

Gill had reportedly been struggling well being issues which led to a kidney transplant in late 2022, and wrote on her cafe’s enterprise web page in November 2023: “What a difference a year makes. This time last year I was having my kidney transplant and a year on after many ups downs and heartache I am a here owning my own business.

“At the start of this year I myself never saw this coming. For anyone out there struggling I can tell you from experience it does get better. Thanks to my amazing family and friends that have been there through it all and picked up the many pieces of me and my life. You all know who you are. Today I feel blessed.”

Gloucester Police mentioned in an announcement to The Independent on Monday that they had been known as to Whitminster at round 9.10am on Friday following considerations for the welfare of a resident.

“Officers attended and the body of a woman in her 40s was found within an address,” the pressure mentioned. “The death is being treated as non-suspicious at this time. The coroners and woman’s next of kin have been informed.”