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Jay Blades showed his support for his unlikely girlfriend Dame Judi Dench after she broke down in tears on their show The Odd Couple.
The 89-year-old actress was overcome with emotion and in the photos she wiped away tears as she was flooded with memories of her late husband Michael Williams.
Judi married the actor in 1971 and a year later they had their daughter Finty, 51.
Michael died in 2001 at the age of 65. In Sunday’s broadcast, Judi took Jay to a house where she lived with Michael and their daughter Finty in the 1970s and 80s.
During the episode, Judi said: ‘I want to take Jay to see my old house in the village of Charlecote, but I haven’t been there since I left in 1984… that’s not going to be easy.’
Jay Blades showed his support for his unlikely girlfriend Dame Judi Dench as she broke down in tears on their show The Odd Couple
The actress, 89, was overcome with emotion and was seen wiping away tears as she was overwhelmed with memories of her late husband Michael Williams
Judi married the actor in 1971 and the couple had their daughter Finty, 51, a year later. Michael sadly passed away in 2001 at the age of 65 (both pictured in 1999)
When Jay and Judi arrived at the house, Judi said, “Oh, oh, this is a strange feeling.”
When Judi saw her former home, she sighed, “Yes, that’s true.” She seemed slightly uncomfortable.
The actress’ emotions got the better of her, visibly emotional as she clutched her scarf as she sat next to The Repair Shop star.
With tears in her eyes, the James Bond star confessed: “Okay, this is hard.”
Jay reached out to comfort Judi and check that she was okay, and it became clear to him that memories of her late husband were coming back.
Judi said of her former home: ‘It brings back so many memories, oh my goodness!’
“It’s very strange.”
Judi’s late husband Michael sadly passed away from lung cancer, leaving the actress heartbroken.
On Sunday’s show, Judi took Jay to a house she lived in with Michael and their daughter Finty in the 70s and 80s
The actress’ emotions took over when the couple arrived at her former home and she said, “Okay, this is hard.”
Although she is now in a relationship with David Mills, whom she has been with since 2010, she previously admitted that she doesn’t think she is over Michael’s death.
In a 2020 interview with David Tennant, she also revealed that she would “never get over” him.
Judi met Michael when they were cast together in a theatre production. A few years ago, she revealed that he is not the only co-star she has fallen in love with on stage.
The acting icon has opened up about her ‘proneness’ to falling in love with her theatre colleagues, revealing she was head over heels for her Hamlet stage partner John Neville.
At an event at the Gielgud Theatre in London’s West End in 2022, Judi called their time together in 1958 “wonderful.”
Richard Eden of the Ny Breaking quoted the iconic star as saying: ‘I was in Hamlet with John Neville. He was wonderful. It was beautiful.’
Asked if she had fallen in love with Neville, who died in 2011 at the age of 86, she replied: ‘Yes. I’m very susceptible to it. I’m very susceptible to it.’
“It doesn’t happen all the time and it doesn’t go to huge extremes, but maybe sharing stage fright is what’s so exciting.”