{"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's Covid death"},"content":{"rendered":"
Great British Sewing Bee judge Patrick Grant reveals today his struggles with the ‘unnecessary’ death of his father from Covid in the early days of the pandemic.<\/p>\n
The 51-year-old holds back tears as he tells Radio 4’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
Blaming the tragedy on a lack of PPE, the Scottish-born designer says: ‘It was totally unnecessary that he died but there was no PPE.\u00a0<\/p>\n
‘The Government was running this catastrophically shambolic programme.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It was heart-breaking to see how badly they all performed.’<\/p>\n
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Tragic: Great British Sewing Bee judge Patrick Grant reveals today his struggles with the ‘unnecessary’ death of his father from Covid in the early days of the pandemic<\/p>\n
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Hard: Blaming the tragedy on a lack of PPE, the Scottish-born designer says: ‘It was totally unnecessary that he died but there was no PPE<\/p>\n
Desert Island Discs airs on BBC Radio 4 today at 11.15am.<\/p>\n