The ITV News regular broke her silence on a “heartbreaking mission”.

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ITV News presenter’s disbelief over agonising trip after husband’s tragic death (Image: ITV NEWS)

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ITV News presenter’s disbelief over agonising trip after husband’s tragic death

The ITV News regular broke her silence on a “heartbreaking mission”.

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By Michelle Marshall, Senior Showbiz Reporter

Nina Nannar

ITV News presenter’s disbelief over agonising trip after husband’s tragic death (Image: ITV NEWS)

ITV News Arts Editor Nina Nannar has detailed her dread following the death of her husband. The broadcaster’s partner of 23 years died following complications of kidney disease in 2022. The couple share 19-year-old daughter Mimi.

In a candid new interview, Nina opened up about her recent “agonising” trip to New Zealand to scatter her late husband Steve Ronson’s ashes. The 57 year old recently spoke to Norfolk magazine about how she had been planning and “dreading” the trip for more than a year because she was on a “heartbreaking mission”.

She had planned to return Steve’s ashes to his native New Zealand but admitted she was not emotionally ready. The broadcaster revealed she had sleepless nights over whether she might struggle to control her grief and “be embarrassing” in front of his friends.

Nina told the publication: “Even though Steve has been gone three years, the sorrow I feel over his loss still manages to cripple me in unexpected moments, of leaving me still in despair and disbelief that he is no longer here.”

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ITV News editor Nina Nannar pictured with her late husband Steve Ronson (Image: Kidney Research UK)

She praised her friends for holding her hand “through my irrational moments” and “times of agony”.

Nina continued: “My grief is raw, but this trip Mimi and I made did help us in a huge way.”

During their trip to New Zealand, Nina and Mimi gathered alongside Steve’s friends on his favourite surf beach and sang their “family anthem”, Return Of The Grievous Angel.

They also gathered at a beach on the Coramandel Peninsula, where Nina filmed a video and sent it to his sister, Chris, who asked her if she had noticed an orb of green light floating across the video which Nina hoped was a sign from Steve.

Kidney Research UK wrote that Steve was born with reflux, a problem with a valve in the ureter that allows urine to travel the wrong way, from the bladder back into the kidney.

He spent three and a half years on dialysis, before receiving a kidney transplant which lasted for 30 years.

In 2021, he underwent surgery to remove a lump but doctors discovered cancer cells.

A year later, the cancer cells had spread, and Steve’s ear had to be removed the day after his 60th birthday. Sadly, he died in 2022 surrounded by his loved ones.