Tina Malone has announced the death of her husband Paul Chase at the age of 42.
The Brookside star, 61, was married for nine years before divorcing in 2019, but they got back together the following year in February 2020.
Tina revealed the devastating news of Paul’s passing on her social media page on Wednesday as she shared her heartbreak with her fans.
The statement read: ‘It is with total sadness that I write this, my husband Paul Chase Malone passed away this morning, we are completely devastated.’
After their 2020 reunion, the soap star said their relationship was back to normal and that their “love never faded.”
The couple shares one daughter together named Flame.
Tina Malone has announced the death of her husband Paul Chase (pictured right)
The statement read: ‘It is with total sadness that I write this, my husband Paul Chase Malone passed away this morning, we are completely devastated.’
Previously, Tina opened up about her relationship with her husband of 13 years, revealing they ‘always had that attraction’.
Speaking last year, despite being on the brink of divorce in 2019, Tina assured that “I’m fine now.”
She explained: ‘Even in times when I’ve hated him, and we all do in relationships, in the worst of times – he’s never turned me on. We have always had that attraction.
‘Sex only gets better as you get older. I’m 60, so I’m comfortable. I like to think that I’ve accomplished most things in my life now – and that includes the bedroom! Paul and I still have so much passion, after 13 years you know each other so well. He still gives me butterflies.’
Tina also appeared in prison drama Clink and even took part in Celebrity Big Brother in 2009.
Tina also made headlines when she lost 12 stone and dropped from a size 26 to a size six following gastric band surgery.
She has been open about her weight loss, and in 2016 she opened up about how she had been attacked online during her journey.
Tina said at the time: ‘I have had more abuse with the last one and a half stone weight loss than with my pregnancy, my nine operations or my gastric band.’
Following her weight loss, Tina spent £50,000 removing her excess skin in 2015 to maintain her new-found confidence in herself.
In December 2017, Tina was fired from a pantomime after being found in possession of cocaine.
She claimed the cocaine was put in her bag when she was arrested after her pantomime performance.
Speaking in June 2018, Tina revealed that she felt so low after her public drug arrest – which took place in front of her daughter Flame – that she planned to commit suicide.
She told the Daily Star: ‘I felt like a burden to everyone so I wrote to everyone to apologize and planned my own funeral.
‘I needed this to work. The panto thing killed me. This has been the worst time of my entire life.”
Former alcoholic Tina said she has ‘always been honest’ about her past addictions – admitting she ‘smoked weed’ during her university years – but that alcohol was her ‘drug of choice’.
The mother-of-two said she would admit it if she had taken drugs, claiming her arrest was a set-up.
Tina became mother to her daughter Flame, now 10, at the age of 50, with her partner Paul. The actress is also mother of daughter Danielle from a previous relationship.
Tina, who became pregnant after IVF treatment, married personal trainer Paul, who is 19 years her junior, in 2010.
