Gill Catchpole Obituary – Reports indicate that Gill Catchpole, the wife of musician James Morrison, has passed away at the age of 45. According to a friend, the mother of two daughters, aged five and 15, was discovered deceased at their family residence in Gloucestershire on Friday. The source informed The Sun that there were no suspicious circumstances surrounding her death.
“Gill was found dead on Friday at the family’s home in Whitminster. James is devastated and is receiving support from his family,” they stated. “He is staying strong for their daughters but has requested privacy for the family to mourn in solitude.” The couple had been together for two decades, having met when Gill became a lodger in James’s mother’s home when he was only 17 years old.
The songwriter, who won a Brit Award, also disclosed in 2015 that he took a break from the music industry after experiencing the loss of his father in 2010. His father passed away due to liver complications caused by alcohol addiction, shortly before his older brother and 21-year-old nephew also passed away within a year.
“Spiritually, I was knocked down. I stopped believing that the world was good,” he shared with The Independent at the time. Morrison, who gained fame in 2006 with his debut single “You Give Me Something,” previously described meeting Gill as a “fairytale” and reminisced about trying to impress her by serenading her with songs from a Stevie Wonder album he had been learning at the time.
“When she moved in, I started singing all the songs off that album to her. I was playing all of that stuff on the acoustic guitar,” said the now 39-year-old Morrison in an interview with the podcast White Wine Question Time. “I’m not the type to say, ‘I love romance.’ But I do find certain things romantic, and the fact that we met each other the way we did. It’s like a little fairytale or something.” While the couple “.
