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Lorraine Kelly revealed details of Dame Deborah James’s private funeral following her death from bowel cancer aged 40.
Close friends and family paid tribute to the beloved campaigner during an intimate service in west London on Wednesday, which saw her husband Sebastien Bowen deliver a eulogy while their children, Hugo and Eloise, both read poems.
Television presenter Lorraine was among the celebrity guests in attendance, and she praised the ‘beautiful’ ceremony during Thursday’s Good Morning Britain.
‘Do you know Ben, it was beautiful,’ she told Ben Shephard and co-host Charlotte Hawkins. ‘It was so beautiful. It was such a celebration of an amazing, amazing woman.
‘I mean, there were a lot of tears, but there really were genuinely a lot of laughs as well as we remembered her. It was great.’
Lorraine continued: ‘She [Dame Deborah] planned it all and it was perfection as you would expect.’
McFly star Tom Fletcher and wife Giovanna and Gaby Roslin were among the attendees at St Mary’s Church in Barnes on Wednesday afternoon.
Dame Deborah, who became known as Bowelbabe, her social media handle, died last month aged 40 after being diagnosed with bowel cancer in 2016.
Family friend and classically trained jazz singer Natalie Rushdie, who is married to novelist Salman Rushdie’s son Zafar, sang Tell Me It’s Not True from the musical Blood Brothers.
Cellist Charles Watt played music from Gabriel Faure, while family friend Sarah Mountford read an extract from Ecclesiastes.
After the service, the family left the church with bowed heads for a private wake, while Dame Deborah’s coffin was carried away by car.
On Wednesday morning, Dame Deborah’s coffin had arrived in a vintage Rolls-Royce hearse with more than a dozen members of family walking in procession behind.
Her husband and son were among those who carried the wicker coffin, adorned with the rose that bears her name, into St Mary’s Church in Barnes on Wednesday afternoon.
Good Morning Britain airs weekdays from 6am on ITV.
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