Race Across The World star Jo Gardiner has died, a year after her co-star son Sam was killed in a car crash.
Ms Gardiner died on Friday, August 21 at the age of 61 following ‘a long and courageous battle with cancer‘, her family said in a statement today. The physiotherapist, from Manchester, was ‘an intrepid adventurer, brave, kind, witty and endlessly loving’, they added.
Her son Sam, who she adopted with her ex-husband Andrew, died in June last year at the age of 24 after his Volkswagen came off the road and rolled before landing on its side.
The mother and son duo competed
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