Tina Malone’s heartbreaking last pictures with her husband Paul Chase on their 13th wedding anniversary as actress, 61, announces he has died aged 42

Brookside star Tina Malone‘s heartbreaking last pictures with her husband Paul Chase showed them looking as loved-up as ever.

Actress Tina, 61, announced the death of her partner aged 42 on Wednesday in tragic news. 

Tina – who is best known for her appearances in Brookside and Shameless – was married to Paul for nine years before separating in 2019, however they got back together just months later in February 2020.

In their last pictures together in August 2023, they shared a sweet kiss before larking about as he lifted her up in the air while celebrating their 13th wedding anniversary. 

The couple were staying at the Mercure Hotel in Liverpool when they were spotted on the romanic outing.

Tina revealed the devastating news of Paul’s passing on her X page on Wednesday evening, as she shared her devastation with her fans.

The statement read: ‘It’s with total heartbreak I write this my husband Paul Chase Malone passed away this morning we are totally devastated.’ Tina did not reveal Paul’s cause of death.

Following their 2020 reunion, the soap star said their relationship was back to normal and said their ‘love never went away.’ 

The couple share one daughter together called Flame, now 11, who they welcomed in 2013. 

Tina is also mother to her daughter Danielle, 41, who she had when she was 18 during a previous relationship.

Tina’s comments section was flooded with messages of support from her fans.

The Shameless actress explained in 2020 that they had got back together because the ‘love never went away’.

She told Closer magazine at the time: ‘The love never went away, we’re working on things now, our problems were compounded by depression but I learned that in tough times you have to pull together and not apart.

‘We were either arguing, bickering or not talking at all, I’d end up putting Flame to bed and falling asleep next to her.

‘Paul and I had always had a great sex life but were barely touching each other. At one point, we didn’t have sex for five months.’

Previously opening up on her relationship with husband of 13 years, Tina revealed they ‘always had that attraction’.

Speaking last year, despite being on the brink of divorce in 2019, Tina assured that ‘things are good’ now.

She explained: ‘Even in times when I’ve loathed him, and we all have that in relationships, in the worst of times – never ever has he not turned me on. We’ve always had that attraction.

‘Sex just gets better as you get older. I’m 60 so I’m comfortable with myself. I like to think I’m accomplished at most things in my life now – and that applies in the bedroom too! 

‘Paul and I still have so much passion, after 13 years you know each other so well. He still gives me butterflies.’

Tina appeared in prison drama Clink and even took part in Celebrity Big Brother in 2009.

Tina also made headlines when she lost 12 stone and dropped from a size 26 to a size six following gastric band surgery.

She has been open about her weight loss and back in 2016, she candidly talked about how she had been attacked online during her journey.

Tina said at the time: ‘I’ve had more abuse with the last one and a half stone weight loss than I had with my pregnancy, my nine ops or my gastric band.’

After her weight loss, Tina went on to spend £50,000 to remove her excess skin in 2015 in order to maintain her new found confidence in herself.

In December 2017, Tina was sacked from a pantomime after being found in possession of cocaine.

She claimed the cocaine was planted in her bag when she was arrested after her pantomime performance.

The relationship hit rock bottom in 2017 after Tina said she was left feeling suicidal after she was arrested and cautioned for possession of cocaine following her performance in pantomime Sleeping Beauty.

Paul, meanwhile, lost his job caring for violent teenagers and the couple found themselves on the brink of bankruptcy.

Speaking in June 2018, Tina revealed she felt so low following her public drug arrest – which happened in front of her daughter Flame – that she planned to take her own life.

She told the Daily Star: ‘I felt like a burden to everybody so I wrote to everyone to apologise and planned my own funeral.

‘I needed this to work. The panto thing killed me. This has been the worst time in my entire life.’

The couple tried for 18 months to make a go of things but Tina said she eventually came to the decision she wanted a divorce.

But after Paul found a job in the army, his mental health improved and they managed to patch things up.

‘Paul has learned he needs to recognise depression in himself and we are working on things, I say to him now: “I might want to kill you, but I’ll never divorce you”,’ Tina said.

Former alcoholic Tina said she has ‘always been honest’ about her past addictions – admitting she ‘smoked pot’ during her college days – but that alcohol was her ‘drug of choice’.

The mother-of-two said she would own up if she had been taking drugs, as she claimed that her arrest was a set-up.

Tina became a mother to her daughter Flame at the age of 50.

Tina, who fell pregnant after having IVF treatment, married personal trainer Paul, who is 19 years her junior, in 2010.

Tina sparked controversy when she announced she wanted to become a mother again with Paul when she was 54. 

Speaking on Loose Women she told the panel: ‘I’ve always wanted a boy, and… [My daughter] Flame said she wanted a brother…’

Tina, who planned on using a surrogate, told The Sunday People: ‘Some will say I am selfish and irresponsible for having another child at 54.

‘They will moralise and abuse me – even more so for selecting the sex of our baby – and everyone is entitled to their opinion.

‘But I don’t give two f***s for what they think.’