{"id":67886,"date":"2023-09-13T07:17:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-13T07:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/likecelebwn.com\/?p=67886"},"modified":"2023-09-13T07:17:02","modified_gmt":"2023-09-13T07:17:02","slug":"who-is-roger-on-my-mum-your-dad-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/likecelebwn.com\/tv-movies\/who-is-roger-on-my-mum-your-dad-the-sun\/","title":{"rendered":"Who is Roger on My Mum, Your Dad? | The Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"
MY MUM, Your Dad has proved to be a big hit for ITV.<\/p>\n
The dating show is about older people looking for romance, and viewers have fallen in love with Roger.<\/p>\n
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Dad-of-three Roger Hawes\u00a0shot to fame when he joined the cast of ITV's My Mum, Your Dad.<\/p>\n
He is one of the ten singletons aged between 44 and 58 have who entered the \u00a38M retreat after being nominated for the show by their grown-up kids.<\/p>\n
Roger is a postman from Derbyshire, and was 58-years-old at the time of filming.<\/p>\n
He describes himself as being: "Fun, loving, conscientious, struggling to get old – I don\u2019t want to get old."<\/p>\n
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Roger was nominated to be on My Mum, Your Dad by his daughter Jess.<\/p>\n
She was 28-years-old at the time the show was filmed, and is a network rail planner.<\/p>\n
Speaking about her decision to put her dad forward for\u00a0My Mum, Your Dad, Jess told ITV: "It was a joint thing with my brother and sister and it was our way of basically telling him that we were happy for him to start dating, if that was something he wanted to do.<\/p>\n
"It was a cop out on our part really, as it meant we didn\u2019t need to sit down and actually say it. <\/p>\n
<\/picture>bed ridden<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/picture>pro response<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/picture>TOW-TALLY NOT ON <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/picture>GOING POTTY <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n "It was a sneaky way of saying, \u2018Oh look at this, do you want to look into this?\u2019 Never actually expected anything to come of it."<\/p>\n Roger revealed on My Mum, Your Dad that his wife died from skin cancer – after finding a "small spot" behind her ear.<\/p>\n He explained that they had been in a relationship for 37 years before she died, and that she had already battled breast cancer.<\/p>\n Speaking to fellow contestant Caroline, he revealed: "[My wife] had breast cancer about three or four years ago and she got over that and we thought, 'Brilliant'.<\/p>\n "And then we were on holiday in Italy and I just looked behind her ear and it was irritating her. Just a little spot behind her ear.<\/p>\n "I said, 'You need to get that checked, Jo, when we get back'. And she did and she got seen to really quick.<\/p>\n "And it was melanoma. She didn't know at that time that the cancer had gone to her brain."<\/p>\n Recalling the moment his wife passed away, he continued: "She said, 'I'm very tired'. I said, 'Come on, I'll put you to bed or do you want to go on the settee?'<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n "She said, 'Put me on the settee'. And then I came in about half an hour later and obviously I should have just phoned for an ambulance straight away.<\/p>\n "She basically never woke up again."<\/p>\nGogglebox star sparks concern as she says she ‘can’t lift head off the pillow’<\/h3>\n
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