ANT McPartlin’s ex-wife Lisa Armstrong was hit by fresh heartache after her dad died following a battle with cancer. Devastated Lisa, 42, was at 71-year-old Derek’s bedside along with mum Linda at the family home. The Strictly make-up artist had kept his illness a secret while contending with the stress of her bitter divorce from […]
ANT McPartlin’s ex-wife Lisa Armstrong was hit by fresh heartache after her dad died following a battle with cancer.
Devastated Lisa, 42, was at 71-year-old Derek’s bedside along with mum Linda at the family home.
The Strictly make-up artist had kept his illness a secret while contending with the stress of her bitter divorce from Britain’s Got Talent host Ant, also 42.
The pair are deadlocked over his £62million fortune. Legal costs have soared to £1.5million.
Lisa had been making regular trips from the property she used to share with Ant in West London to the family’s Oxford home.
She was with her mum and other family members and was said to be “distraught”.
A source said: “A lot of people think Lisa is strong, and she is — but she’s had so much to cope with since she and Ant split up.
“There’s been one thing after another and at times she’s felt on her knees. But she’s kept it together and ploughed on.
“To do all of that whilst knowing your dad is seriously ill and on borrowed time is quite something. It would break most people.”
Lisa’s dad is believed to have been diagnosed a year ago. His condition deteriorated in recent months and he was in and out of hospital.
A source said he had been discharged in the last few weeks to die peacefully at home.
Last July Derek and Linda flew to the US to be with their daughter when she fled there after news broke of Ant’s relationship with Anne-Marie Corbett, 42.
Lisa was granted a decree nisi in October on the grounds of her ex’s adultery with mum-of-two Anne-Marie, the married couple’s former PA.
