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Speaker 1: My Heart podcasts here more gold won on one point

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Speaker 1: seven podcasts.

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Speaker 2: Playlists and listen live on the free iHeart app. I

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Speaker 2: was watching marret at First Sight last night when I

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Speaker 2: heard the news that Mel Shilling had passed away. Mel

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Speaker 2: was one of the experts on marrit At First Sight

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Speaker 2: and we had spoken to her many times on our show,

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Speaker 2: including the time when she was diagnosed with bowel cancer.

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Speaker 2: I think in twenty twenty three colon cancer.

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Speaker 1: She was diagnosed like in December twenty twenty three and

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Speaker 1: was given the orclear after an operation. Then February twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty four, and this is just from what I've read,

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Speaker 1: was told that it had moved to some of her

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Speaker 1: other organs and then it had moved to her brain.

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Speaker 1: And I think she underwent a whole lot of chemo

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Speaker 1: for two years, and most people would not have been

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Speaker 1: aware of the struggle.

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Speaker 2: You wouldn't have known it to watch the TV show

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Speaker 2: and then watching these adult babies as they explained their

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Speaker 2: the neutier of their lives. It was not lost on

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Speaker 2: me that what Mel was going through. Her husband, Gareth

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Speaker 2: husband said in Instagram in her final moments, when I

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Speaker 2: thought cancer would take it away, her ability to speak.

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Speaker 2: She ushered me closer and whispered a message for Maddie

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Speaker 2: and me that will sustain me for the rest of

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Speaker 2: my life. It took all of her remaining strength, and

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Speaker 2: that gesture shummed up, summed up our wee MELSI perfectly.

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Speaker 2: Even then, her only thought was for Maddie and me,

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Speaker 2: and I always found that with her. You know, she

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Speaker 2: was a very, very just She always made you feel good.

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Speaker 2: You'd speak to her, and she was just. She was

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Speaker 2: a real light.

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Speaker 1: I saw a very emotional John Aiken speaking post to

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Speaker 1: her death today.

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Speaker 3: With MEO like I think about, you know, the way

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Speaker 3: in which she was on set even to the end.

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Speaker 3: And what I loved about her was that she just

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Speaker 3: fought all the time, but she kept everything inside. She

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Speaker 3: never complained. She just was such a you know, such

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Speaker 3: an incredibly strong inspiration. She was a real leader. And

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Speaker 3: I always admired that about it because we never really

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Speaker 3: knew what she was going through until close to the end.

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Speaker 3: I just feel like, you know, I've lost someone special

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Speaker 3: today and mass for me, you know, it won't be

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Speaker 3: the same.

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Speaker 1: She got a lot of class to that show, didn't

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Speaker 1: She She rose above the madness I thought condolence absolutely