Jeff Brazier has detailed a ‘difficult day’ with his son Freddy Brazier on Celebrity Race Across The World as they commemorated the late Jade Goody. Big Brother legend Goody and Jeff had two sons Freddy, 19, and Strictly star Bobby, 21, before she died from cervical cancer aged 27 in 2009. The anniversary of her death fell during filming of the BBC show, which Jeff, 46, told Metro.
co.uk they marked in an ‘important and significant’ moment. ‘That was always going to be a difficult day,’ Jeff said.
‘But we really went out of our way to find a beautiful sunset. ‘Freddy felt a bit uncomfortable so we got in the sea and we just swam. The waves were really big and it was really cool.
‘We just played and it was a really important, significant moment for us.’ In tomorrow’s episode, Freddy struggles to fight back tears as he pays tribute to his mum on the anniversary of her death in Salvador. He heartbreakingly says according to the MailOnline that he doesn’t ‘really remember being held’ by Goody and that most of his memories of her are from old TV clips.
Freddy says: ‘I lost my mum when I was four and that was on Mother’s Day , which is really hard. I don’t really like showing my emotions. I don’t even speak to my dad much about my mum either.
I just avoid it. I prefer to bottle it up’. ‘I don’t want to feel like I’m a burden to them.
A lot of my memories that I have of my mum have come from watching a documentary, YouTube clips, newspap.