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I’m A Celeb’s Craig Charles reveals his father-in-law has died just weeks after another family tragedy

CRAIG Charles has suffered another family tragedy just weeks after sharing the sad news his mother-in-law had passed away.

The actor, 61, told how they’d lost wife Jackie’s mum Anna in a social media post days before the latest series of I’m a Celebrity South Africa kicked off.

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Craig told how his family have suffered another heartbreaking lossCredit: ITV/Shutterstock
 

Two men, one older with white hair, and one younger with sunglasses and a patterned scarf, standing together with the younger man's arm around the older man's shoulder.
The actor took to social media to share a touching tribute to his father-in-law VincentCredit: Instagram
Today the Red Dwarf star revealed they’ve been struck by more heartbreak after the death of his father-in-law Vincent.

Craig shared a touching tribute on Instagram, posting a snap of him and Vincent together and adding: “My father in law Vincent who’s wife Anna passed away a month ago has gone to join her.

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Days before the recent series of I’m a Celebrity South Africa kicked off, Craig revealed his mother-in-law Anna had passed awayCredit: Instagram
 

Craig Charles and his wife Jackie Fleming smiling at a Legends of Football event.
The Red Dwarf star, pictured with wife Anna, was forced to cut his first jungle stint short after the death of his brother DeanCredit: Alamy

“RIP Vincent, you were a mighty man.”

His followers were quick to send their condolences, with one writing: “Tragic news for your wife and family.”

Someone else said: “Sorry to hear this, thoughts with you all right now.”

And a third wrote: “Sending love Craig, to you and your family.”

Former Coronation Street star Craig was forced to quit I’m a Celebrity early during his first stint in 2014 after being told his brother Dean had passed away.

While in South Africa for the recent All Stars series, he shared with his campmates how he has the same condition that killed Dean – meaning he has to take eight tablets a day and has four stents in his heart.

He said: “The arteries from my heart were narrow. It’s the same thing that killed my brother when I was here last time.

“They told me this is genetic, you need to go get that looked at.

“And then my wife, Jackie, is in Galway, visiting their parents, and I’m at home. I gave her a ring, something like that ‘I don’t feel great, man. My jaws are tingling’.

“Anyway, her sister in law’s a nurse and said to call for an ambulance, so I didn’t, because you don’t call the ambulance on your own.

“And she was coming home in the morning, so she came home the next morning and took one look at me and got on the phone, and the woman said, ‘We think he’s having a heart attack, and stay with me’.

“She asked ‘what colour is he?’ And she [wife] said ‘he’s brown’. So by now I am having a heart attack and laughing my socks off.

“And then they put a wire in, which is attached to a balloon, and then they blow the balloon up, then they stick a stent in, and it goes all the way up there into your heart, so it widens the artery.

“Because apparently I was existing with only 35% blood to my heart, and when they put the stents in and it’s on 100%. So they saved me.

“My brother had the same thing, but he passed out, he was working at a school as a teacher.”