Mrs Hinch sobs on social media and asks followers tips on how to deal with her grief
Mrs Hinch sobbed on her social media stories on Friday as she appealed to her fanbase for support during her ongoing battle with grief after losing her father.
Sophie Hinchcliffe, a cleaning influencer, took a hiatus from posting online after her father Alan died in April.
Only last month did she return to her platform to talk to her 4.8million followers about her grief.
She said: ‘When you’ve been through something like this, it’s a bit like an out of body experience.
‘The world looks different, feels different, smells different, just everything is different,’ she said in her stories in August.
Mrs Hinch, a cleaning influencer, admitted to her 4.8 million followers on Instagram on Friday how she was struggling with grief after her father’s sudden passing back in April
Sophie needed a tissue to dry her tears as she addressed her followers
Sophie, 34, announced her father’s death on Instagram in May, writing that he ‘passed suddenly but so peacefully whilst he slept.
‘My life, our whole world, has been turned upside down. A deep unimaginable pain I cannot put into words.’
Sophie continues to struggle with her grief as she told her fans: ‘I thought I was doing alright or managing a bit yesterday.
‘And then I had a dream last night… I don’t understand how we have this grief that is with us all the time but when you try and do better you’re sort of knocked back on the floor again.’
‘I really want to do better but I can’t. I don’t know if anyone’s got any advice on starting again every few days it seems.’
Mrs Hinch is best known for her cleaning tips and organisational hacks and she discovered her passion for all things DIY through Alan.
As a child she would watch New Yankees Workshop with her father and the pair would dream of having a similar workshop themselves.
Then, when the family moved in 2021, Sophie surprised him with his own dedicated space and tools after he retired – something he had wanted ‘since he was a little boy’.
Describing the workshop as the ‘most emotional part of the house’, Alan created his own workshop bench and stool and the pair pinned up a whiteboard to write out their upcoming projects.
Sophie ordered all her dads favourite tools for the workshop and shared her excitement to upcycle as much as she could alongside her father.
She wrote: ‘I just can’t wait for us to upcycle and make things in here together. Dad has worked so hard his whole life to look after us all and I felt like I could finally give him something back.’
When the star initially introduced her followers to her father’s workshop in 2022, she shared a snap of its front door and penned: ‘I’m so proud of my dad. The start of many projects together in Grandad’s workshop!’
The influencer got a tattoo in her late father’s handwriting in memory of him in August.
She shared a selection of photos including one of her two boys and one of her new ink on her forearm.
She wrote in the caption: ‘Explaining to your children, that their loved one is never coming back, is by far the hardest thing I have ever had to do in my life.
‘Life has certainly changed forever but as parents we find that fight to get up, to walk, talk and just try to smile through the rollercoaster that is grief. If you too are facing this right now I’m sending all my love.’
Mrs Hinch got a tattoo of her late father’s handwriting to remember him by
Picctured with her father Alan in a sweet throwback photo
A photo shared by Mrs Hinch when she announced her father’s death in May
