Tom Jones has entered the semi-finals of The Voice 2019, where the singer is hoping to win the competition with his years of experience. The 78-year-old Welsh singer is competing against fellow judges Will.I.Am, Jennifer Hudson and Olly Murs. Sir Tom has been enjoying the process, singing and performing with his acts as they journey into the final few weeks. However, he is missing his wife, who he says kept him grounded.
Tom Jones married his wife Melinda Rose Trenchard (affectionately known as Linda) in 1957.
Despite his very public infidelities, Tom insists he was always devoted to his wife and they were married until Linda’s death in 2016.
The two had a son – Mark – together, who was born in 1957.
Sir Tom was ultimately devastated by her death, and he said she was the most important thing in his life.
According to Tom, Mrs Jones also helped to keep him grounded, reminding him of the man he was before his success.
Talking to GQ editor Dylan Jones, he revealed how he felt about the death of his wife.
He talked about one particular occasion when the couple were with friends at their home and she reminded him he was starting to brag about his success.
He said: “She was in there with friends and I might have been getting a bit ‘too large’.”
“I had a glass of champagne, a cigar, and I was like what do you think of my house, and my snooker room?
“And she said ‘Hey! Hey, what are you doing?!’ And I said ‘I’m just sharing.’
“And she said, ‘You don’t really think you’re Tom Jones do you?
“I married Tommy Woodward [his birth name], that’s who I married.'”
Later on in the interview, Sir Tom also said without her by his side, he has realised exactly how important she was.
He said: “She was always very important to me, she was such a natural person and Welsh, and we grew up together.
“Our sense of humour was the same, we came from the same town.
“She’s always been very important to me, throughout my life, now I realise she might be the most important thing in my life.
“I realise even more now how important she was to me, she still is.”