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Jay Blades showed his support for his unlikely pal Dame Judi Dench as she broke down in tears on their show The Odd Couple.
The actress, 89, was overcome with emotion and could be seen wiping away tears as she was flooded with memories of her late husband Michael Williams.
Judi married the actor in 1971 and the pair went on to welcome their daughter Finty, 51, a year later.
Michael sadly passed in 2001 at the age of 65 and on Sunday’s show, Judi took Jay to a home that she used to live in with Michael and their daughter Finty in the 70s and 80s.
During the episode, Judi said: ‘I want to take Jay to see my old home in the village of Charlecote but having not been back since leaving in 1984… this isn’t going to be easy.’
Jay Blades showed his support for his unlikely pal Dame Judi Dench as she broke down in tears on their show The Odd Couple
The actress, 89, was overcome with emotion and could be seen wiping away tears as she was flooded with memories of her late husband Michael Williams
Judi married the actor in 1971 and the pair went on to welcome their daughter Finty, 51, a year later. Michael sadly passed in 2001 at the age of 65 (both pictured in 1999)
As Jay and Judi pulled up to the house, Judi said: ‘Oh, oh, this is a strange feeling.’
Seeing the sight of her former home, Judi sighed ‘my word’ and appeared slightly uneasy.
The actress’s emotions then took over as she became visibly emotional and clutched onto her scarf as she sat next to The Repair Shop star.
With tears filling her eyes, the James Bond star confessed: ‘Ok, this is hard.’
Jay held his hand out to console Judi and checked she was okay as it became clear to him that memories of her late husband had come flooding back.
Discussing her former home, Judi said: ‘It holds a lot of memories, oh my goodness me!’
‘It’s very strange.’
Judi’s late husband Michael sadly passed from lung cancer leaving the actress heartbroken.
On Sunday’s show, Judi took Jay to a home that she used to live in with Michael and their daughter Finty in the 70s and 80s
The actresses emotions then took over as the pair turned up to her former home and she said: ‘Ok, this is hard’
Although she’s now in a relationship with David Mills, who she started dating in 2010, she previously admitted that she doesn’t think she’s 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, but revealed a few years ago that he’s not the only co-star she has fallen in love with on stage.
The acting icon has mused about her ‘susceptibility’ to falling for her theatre co-stars, revealing she was smitten with her Hamlet stage partner John Neville.
Speaking during an event at the Gielgud Theatre in London’s West End in 2022, Judi called their time together in 1958 ‘beautiful’.
Daily Mail’s Richard Eden said the iconic star explained: ‘I was in Hamlet with John Neville. He was beautiful. It was beautiful.’
Asked if she fell in love with Neville, who died in 2011 aged 86, she replied: ‘Yes. I am very prone to it. I am very susceptible.’
‘It does not happen all the time, and it does not go to enormous extremes, but it is, perhaps, sharing (stage) fright that is so electrifying.’