Celebrating their love! Big Brother alums Claire Rehfuss and Derek Xiao are gearing up to commemorate their one-year anniversary after meeting on the CBS reality show last summer.
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@OliviaGranted, died a year ago, this evening. ‘Holding each other’s hands until her final earthly breath. Forever dancing in my heart.
’Grant and Washington had been together for 38 years and married for 34 before her death last year, aged 71, after a battle with cancer. The Withnail and I star had confirmed news of Washington’s death on social media last year, writing: ‘ONLY YOU! Joan – Love of my Life & Giver of Life to our daughter Olivia. ‘Our hearts are broken with the loss of your Life last night.
35 years married & 38 together. ‘To be truly known and seen by you, is your immeasurable gift. Do not forget us, sweet Monkee-mine.
’Washington was an esteemed dialect coach with almost 40 years’ experience, who had worked with the likes of Anne Hathaway, Emma Stone and Vanessa Redgrave. She met Grant when she was teaching an accent session at the Actors Centre in Covent Garden in November 1982, where the Loki actor ‘begged her to give me private voice lessons’ as he had recently emigrated from Eswatini (formerly Swaziland) in Southern Africa. Grant recalled her price was £20 per hour, but he could ‘only afford £12’, which Washington agreed to on one condition.
He wrote: ‘She fixed me with her big monkey-eyes and said: “All right, but you’ll have to repay me if you ever ‘make it’. ”’The couple went on to welcome a daughter together, Olivia, while Grant is also stepfather to Washington’s son Tom, from her first marriage. Got a story?If you’ve got a celebrity story, video or pictures get in touch with the Metro.
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Celebrating their love! Big Brother alums Claire Rehfuss and Derek Xiao are gearing up to commemorate their one-year anniversary after meeting on the CBS reality show last summer.
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King Charles III, who arranged to visit his wife before she died from lung cancer last year. Joan Washington, who was a voice coach to celebrities including Penelope Cruz and Jessica Chastain, died in September last year at the age of 74. Swazi-English actor Grant, whose wife died eight months after she was diagnosed with lung cancer, praises the new King in his forthcoming memoir, A Pocketful Of Happiness.
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Star Wars and Loki actor shared a video of himself and Joan on Twitter dancing together with a beautiful caption. "Still cannot compute that my beloved wife, Joan, mother of our daughter @OliviaGranted, died a year ago, this evening," he said in the post.
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