Lorna Luxe rewears her wedding ceremony robe to the BAFTA TV Awards three months after her beloved husband John’s dying: ‘I feel he’d be proud’
Lorna Luxe rewore her wedding gown to the British Academy Television Awards at London’s Royal Festival Hall on Sunday, three months after her husband’s death.
Lorna, 43, lost her husband John to stage four adrenal cancer aged 64 in February.
In a tribute to their marriage, Lorna put back on the Amanda Wakeley gown she wore during their wedding in 2010 in New York.
Lorna looked effortlessly glamorous in the satin dress which featured draping detailing.
The fashion influencer wrote: ‘BAFTA TV… a right rollercoaster of emotions wearing my wedding frock but I know John would have loved every second of this and I think he’d be ever so proud seeing me back in the dress where it all started.
‘*I feel very lucky to have had a wing girl in @isobellorna_ to go with, she’s become one of the bestest of mates I could wish for’ (sic).
Lorna Luxe rewore her wedding gown to the British Academy Television Awards at London’s Royal Festival Hall on Sunday, three months after her husband’s death
Lorna, 43, lost her husband John to stage four adrenal cancer aged 64 in February. In a tribute to their marriage, Lorna put back on the Amanda Wakeley gown she wore during their wedding
Lorna complemented the look with dazzling diamond earrings and a matching necklace.
Lorna and John met when she was 25 and in the midst of her eight-year stint as a Virgin Atlantic air hostess, before marrying in NYC shortly after and going on to live together in Hove, East Sussex, and later Horsham and Warwickshire.
While John previously worked as a banker, following his stage three cancer diagnosis in 2023 and Lorna’s continued success as an influencer, he gave up his job to focus on his health and helping his wife work.
In the last few years prior to his death, Lorna and John said they made sure to live life to the very fullest.
Talking about his sad passing, Lorna recently told The Times: ‘It wasn’t anything like you see in the films – I’d imagined me nattering away to him until the last minute and him squeezing my hand. But this was slow and sad.
‘When I started to go through John’s phone for his passwords, as he told me to, he’d left these short, sweet, beautiful notes.
Lorna explained how he had also left a ‘funny’ list of people she wasn’t allowed to date, but wasn’t ‘naming names.’
During the ceremony, Stephen Graham’s acclaimed Netflix drama Adolescence dominated the British Academy Television Awards.
Lorna posed in the back on her taxi in her wedding gown as she headed to the ceremony with her friend
The fashion influencer wrote: ‘ BAFTA TV… a right rollercoaster of emotions wearing my wedding frock but I know John would have loved every second of this’
Stephen, 52, won Best Actor for his portrayal of a father confronting the aftermath of a brutal crime involving his teenage son.
It was a landmark moment for Stephen, who had missed out on seven previous nominations for shows including Help, Time and This Is England ’90.
The four-part Netflix show, which received a staggering 11 nominations when they were announced in March, received the most ever wins for a series as it also took home Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress and Limited Drama.
Adolescence, which was created by actor Stephen and writer Jack Thorne, tells the story of British teenager Jamie Miller (Owen Cooper), who is found guilty of murdering a female classmate after being sucked in by the manosphere online.
Each episode is filmed in one continuous shot and has been widely praised for addressing topics such as online radicalisation and misogyny.
Owen, 16, who has made history by becoming the youngest winner of the Best Supporting Actor award at both the Golden Globes and the Emmy Awards, continued his award-winning streak as he took home the BAFTA for Best Supporting Actor.
Meanwhile, Christine Tremarco, who played Owen’s mother in the show, won Best Supporting Actress in a surprise result beating co-star Erin Doherty, who previously took home the Golden Globe and Emmy Award.
Stephen wiped away tears as Christine took to the stage and said: ‘I hold this BAFTA high to Hannah Walters and Stephen Graham, thank you so much.’
Code Of Silence scooped Best Drama while the Lead Actress BAFTA went to Narges Rashidi for Passenger 951.
Amandaland starring Lucy Punch won the BAFTA for Scripted Comedy. However, Lucy and her co-star Philippa Dunne missed out on the Actress In A Comedy gong, which went to Katherine Parkinson for her performance in BBC One’s Here We Go.
Meanwhile, The Celebrity Traitors won Best Reality, days after the BBC announced the celebrity line-up for the second series of the hit spin-off, with comedian Alan Carr being recognised in the public-voted memorable moment category after breaking down in tears during the series.
Elsewhere during the ceremony, the documentary Gaza: Doctors Under Attack won the Current Affairs category after becoming embroiled in controversy surrounding the BBC’s decision not to broadcast the film over impartiality concerns. The documentary was later picked up by Channel 4.
Journalist Ramita Navai criticised the BBC while accepting the award.
Channel 4 additionally received recognition for its reporting on the Iran conflict, while historian Simon Schama won for his BBC Two documentary The Road to Auschwitz.
The factual series category went to Channel 4’s See No Evil, which examined the Church of England abuse scandal surrounding serial abuser John Smyth and contributed to renewed scrutiny surrounding safeguarding failures within the institution.
