Ore Oduba broke down in tears live on air during Thursday’s episode of Loose Women as he remembered his late sister and shared what he is doing to honour her short life

Ore Oduba broke down in tears on Thursday’s episode of Loose Women as he remembered his late sister. The former Strictly Come Dancing winner, 39, was dealt with family heartbreak earlier this year when his sister took her own life at the age of 37, and spoke of how he has had to learn to move on amid his grief.

The TV star, who joined Kaye Adams, Nadia Sawalha, Oti Mabuse and Judi Love for a lunchtime chat about his new role in Young Frankenstein the Musical, has been able to see various ‘signs’ that his sister is still with him and is reminded of her nearly every day, but became visibly emotional.

He said: “I had another cry about my sister this morning. So my sister has been with me every single day and I remember friends who had lost family members said I’d see signs. Every other day my sister is there with me, guiding me, leading me. I picked up the phone and I went ‘Where are you sis?’”

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Ore has decided to run the London Marathon in honour of his late sister (Image: Ken McKay/ITV/Shutterstock)

The panellists all went to comfort him, and Ore announced that he will be running the London Marathon in honour of his late sister, but couldn’t stop the tears as he made the emotional revelation.

He said: “I feel finally able to live a version of my life that’s going to take me through the rest of it. My sister, who took their life, was unable to do that in their time. I’ve decided, and it was always the thing that I was the most terrified to do in life but I’ve decided to run the London marathon in honour of my sister.”

He added: “They loved running, they struggled, became obsessed with it and they did a lot for us as a family. They were so couregeous, so brave so I know that the one thing I thought I couldn’t do I have to take on.”

Ore has not decided which charity he will be running for just yet, but knows that he will try to help an organisation that focuses on black people and queer people in memory of his sister, who revealed shortly before their death that they were non-binary.

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The TV star, who joined Kaye Adams, Nadia Sawalha, Oti Mabuse and Judi Love for a lunchtime chat about his new role in Young Frankenstein the Musical, has been able to see various ‘signs’ that his sister is still with him(Image: Ken McKay/ITV/Shutterstock)

Following his sister’s death, Ore paid a touching tribute during an appearance on John Reynolds’ Extraordinary Life Stories podcast. He said: “I wasn’t prepared to lose my sister. She has been with me every day since. My sister is non-binary, they told us in their goodbye letter.

“They’ve been with me every day since, and what my sister did in choosing to find a peace in death that they couldn’t find in life; that was strength. That was courage and that was brave.”

He went on: “And having gone through the last four or five years of their life and hearing about their struggles physically and emotionally, when actually my sister did more living in the actual five years of their life than the previous 32, and still made a decision that they couldn’t carry on living in this world.

“What they did for all of us in those last weeks, that has given me the strength every day and my responsibility now is to carry that legacy because nothing is hard compared to what my sister went through.”