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The Wanted’s Tom Parker nominated for National Television Award five months after he died from cancer aged 33-Robert Oliver-Entertainment – Metro
He’s been nominated in the best authored documentary category.
Tom Parker, here with wife Kelsey, died in March following a battle with cancer (Picture: Getty Images)
The late Wanted singer Tom Parker has been posthumously nominated for a National Television Award in the best authored documentary category.
The annual award ceremony, which will take place on September 15 this year, acknowledges and celebrates the best of British TV from the previous 12 months.
Parker, who died earlier this year in March aged 33, was the main focus of the Channel 4 special entitled Inside My Head, which broadcast in October 2021.
The emotional documentary followed the Parker family as they learned to live with Tom’s brain tumour and arranged a charity benefit concert, and left significant amounts of viewers in tears.
Parker was diagnosed with an inoperable grade four glioblastoma in October 2020. Despite initial hope that his tumour had been stabilised, complications soon arose once more.
Parker was the subject of an emotional documentary about his cancer battle (Picture: Mike Marsland/WireImage)
The documentary has been nominated alongside Julia Bradbury’s Breast Cancer and Me, which follows the Countryfile presenter’s journey with breast cancer, and Katie Price’s What Harvey Did Next.
Another documentary features in the category are Kate Garraway’s Caring for Derek, which follows the changes in the TV host’s life after her husband’s Covid diagnosis left him with severe health complications.
Parker was father of two children, Bodhi and Aurelia (Picture: Tom Parker Instagram)
The final documentary up against Parker’s feature is Paddy and Christine McGuinness’ Our Family and Autism, a BBC documentary about comedian Paddy McGuinness and his wife Christine’s time raising their autistic children.
Parker’s fellow Wanted bandmate Max George recently paid tribute to the late singer on what would have been his 34th birthday, revealing earlier this month that he had gotten himself a special tattoo.
The tattoo was revealed to feature Parker’s date of birth – August 4, 1988 – and sits just below Max’s collarbone, ensuring that Tom will always be close to his heart.
‘Happy birthday, brother. You’re always with me,’ he captioned the post.
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One fan wrote in the comments: ‘Oh Max, I love this. Close to your heart but your angel on your shoulder. Happy birthday, Tommy,’ while another said the pair were ‘brothers until eternity’.
In July, Parker’s wife Kelsey marked the occasion of the couple’s first wedding anniversary since his death. She said: ‘Never did I ever think this is how I’d be celebrating our 4 year wedding anniversary Tom.’
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