Edith Bowman chokes again tears after baggage containing her beloved grandfather’s ashes are stolen as she makes emotional plea for his or her return

Edith Bowman has made a tearful plea for luggage containing her beloved grandfather’s ashes to be returned after they were stolen on Friday.

The radio and TV star, 52, took to her Instagram Stories following the theft from a train as she travelled from London Paddington to Kemble in the Cotswolds. 

At first Edith was furious and branded the thief a ‘f****r’ and a ‘t****’ before it dawned on her that the case contained a ring with the ashes inside. 

Choking back tears she said: ‘I’ve just realised whats in my bag is a jewellery box and in that jewellery box are some really lovely personal things and in particular a pinkie ring thats got my grandad’s ashes in it.

In an emotional plea she said: ‘If anyone saw anyone getting off the train at Didcot Parkway, Reading, or Swindon, with an old school case that’s green, dark green with brown straps, please can you get in touch and let me know’.

She later shared a snap of the suitcase with the message: ‘If anyone saw someone get off @GWR train with this bag, Reading 09:58, Didcot Pway 10:11, Swindon 10:30, Please contact me’.

Edith Bowman has made a tearful plea for luggage containing her beloved grandfather’s ashes to be returned after they were stolen on Friday 

The radio and TV star, 52, took to her Instagram Stories following the theft from a train as she travelled from London Paddington to Kemble in the Cotswolds (pictured with her grandfather) 

Edith previously spoke about her beloved ‘Grandad Bowman’ to Daily Mail in 2020: ‘Every weekend until I was 11 or 12 I lived at Grandad’s house’. 

‘My parents ran a hotel called The Craw’s Nest in Anstruther, Fife, and weekends were the busiest. So on Friday nights I went to Grandad’s and my dad would pick me up Sunday teatime. 

Before adding: ‘On Saturdays, Dad would drop off a Sporting Post for Grandad and a Cornetto for me’ 

Meanwhile she told The Guardian: ‘I adored Grandad Bowman. He looked after me at weekends when Mum and Dad were working, and he’d make me oatcakes smothered with Dairy Lea, and a cup of hot milk, before reading me bedtime stories’. 

‘He had a stroke when I was seven, which meant he could use only one arm. He wasn’t expected to last the year, but lived another 27 years’. 

She went on: ‘We were at a cousin’s wedding when we got the call to say he’d been taken into hospital. As he lay dying, I collected some pictures and candles to brighten up his room, and played his favourite Al Jolson songs. It was hard, but I’m glad I was there’. 

Last year discussed the impact of trolling on celebrities and claimed they ‘can’t breathe the wrong way’ without coming under fire online. 

She spoke about the pressures of being famous and how it can be ‘very hard’ to resurrect your career after ‘messing up’ on social media. 

At first Edith was furious and branded the thief a ‘f****r’ and a ‘t****’ before it dawned on her that the case contained a ring with the ashes inside

‘I’ve just realised whats in my bag is a jewellery box and in that jewellery box are some really lovely personal things and in particular a pinkie ring thats got my grandad’s ashes in it.

She later shared a snap of the suitcase: ‘If anyone saw someone get off @GWR train with this bag, Reading 09:58, Didcot Pway 10:11, Swindon 10:30, Please contact me’

She told The Sun: ‘It’s like you almost breathe in the wrong way and like the world is on you, nobody’s perfect, but if you make a mistake on a public platform, it’s very hard to come back from it’.

‘There’s just no space for anybody to learn, I guess. You don’t get the chance to mess up in public life, apologise and try again.’

Edith’s career began before social media around the turn of the millennium as part of a new generation of women at MTV, including Cat Deeley, Donna Air and June Sarpong, who were heralded as a fresh type of presenter – ‘ladettes’.

‘We were doing what most girls that age do – having a laugh, dancing and drinking. It’s just that people would take photographs of us coming out of bars. How much fun we had. We made good memories and brilliant friendships,’ she explained.

Edith has admitted staying relevant in the entertainment industry is a constant battle and that she has to live with the pressure of having ’50 people’ always chasing your job.

She said: ‘I try to keep lots of plates spinning so that when one door shuts I’m kind of keeking through another and I can get in there, I’m terrible at saying no, and I don’t do myself any favours in terms of how much workload I put on myself. 

‘But I love what I do and I know there’s another 50 people there who can do as good a job and that they can pick up that opportunity, so I feel I’ve got to make the most of it while I can.’