{"id":84294,"date":"2023-10-22T01:03:02","date_gmt":"2023-10-22T01:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mylifestylemax.com\/?p=84294"},"modified":"2023-10-22T01:03:02","modified_gmt":"2023-10-22T01:03:02","slug":"patrick-grant-shares-the-anger-he-felt-over-his-fathers-covid-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mylifestylemax.com\/celebrities\/patrick-grant-shares-the-anger-he-felt-over-his-fathers-covid-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Patrick Grant shares the anger he felt over his father&apos;s Covid death"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Great British Sewing Bee judge Patrick Grant shares the anger he felt over his father&#8217;s &#8216;unnecessary&#8217; Covid death<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The 51-year-old held back tears as he told all to Radio 4&#8217;s Desert Island Discs<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>His father\u00a0caught the virus after going into hospital for a routine operation<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Great British Sewing Bee judge Patrick Grant reveals today his struggles with the &#8216;unnecessary&#8217; death of his father from Covid in the early days of the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>The 51-year-old holds back tears as he tells Radio 4&#8217;s Desert Island Discs that his dad James \u2013 a pop music manager who died at 79 \u2013 caught the virus after going into hospital for a routine operation.<\/p>\n<p>Blaming the tragedy on a lack of PPE, the Scottish-born designer says: &#8216;It was totally unnecessary that he died but there was no PPE.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The Government was running this catastrophically shambolic programme.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It was heart-breaking to see how badly they all performed.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/21\/20\/76842937-12657293-image-m-6_1697915989512.jpg\" height=\"810\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Tragic: Great British Sewing Bee judge Patrick Grant reveals today his struggles with the &#8216;unnecessary&#8217; death of his father from Covid in the early days of the pandemic<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/21\/20\/76842645-12657293-image-m-4_1697915186375.jpg\" height=\"652\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Hard: Blaming the tragedy on a lack of PPE, the Scottish-born designer says: &#8216;It was totally unnecessary that he died but there was no PPE<\/p>\n<p>Desert Island Discs airs on BBC Radio 4 today at 11.15am.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/tvshowbiz\/article-12657293\/Great-British-Sewing-Bee-judge-Patrick-Grant-shares-anger-felt-fathers-unnecessary-Covid-death.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great British Sewing Bee judge Patrick Grant shares the anger he felt over his father&#8217;s &#8216;unnecessary&#8217; Covid death The 51-year-old<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84293,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3373],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.1 - 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