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The Sex Bomb star, 80, shot to superstardom after he released It’s Not Unusual in the Sixties. Sir Tom, who appears on tonight’s The Voice on ITV, toured in the US and has sold more than 100 million records. Fame turned his life turned upside down, as he went from a married working club singer in a Welsh coal-mining town to having women hurl their underwear and themselves at him.
Despite cheating on his wife with scores of women, Sir Tom always maintained that Linda was his soulmate.
From the day they met at school in Treforest, Pontypridd, he claimed to have known she was the one for him.
Sir Tom described her as “the most important thing in my life” and an “unbelievable woman” in a 2006 Daily Mail article.
But a decade later, Linda died after being diagnosed with terminal lung cancer, at the age of 75.
Her death was roughly one-year before Sir Tom and Linda would have celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary.
Tom Jones and wife Linda were married for 59 years before she died in 2016 (Image: GETTY)