TV host Rove McManus posted a heartfelt note in tribute to his first wife Belinda Emmett via Twitter this morning on the three-year anniversary of her death.
The comedian tweeted, “Thinking of Belinda today. And smiling xxx.”
Rove has continued to pay tribute to his first wife since her heartbreaking death on November 11, 2006. A year after her death, he dedicated his television show to her.
Belinda, the bubbly actress, once said she wanted to be an example for other cancer sufferers.
“I want to be a living breathing example of the fact that cancer need not be a death sentence … and that life after breast cancer can be really beautiful,” she said.
Her positive attitude towards life made Belinda a much-loved figure with the Australian public.
However Belinda’s battle with cancer ended, just 18 months after she married Rove, in the early hours of November 11, 2006, at St Vincent’s Hospital in Sydney.
The actress, famous for her roles on Home and Away and All Saints, was first diagnosed with breast cancer in 1998, which then spread to her bones.
Rove went on to pay tribute to his first wife through promoting Belinda’s first single off her album ‘So I Am’ with profits from the album going to the McGrath Foundation.
Rove is now married to Blue Heelers star Tasma Walton, who proposed to him earlier this year before the pair were married on June 16.
