{"id":688289,"date":"2026-07-12T22:18:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T22:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/688289\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T22:18:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T22:18:09","slug":"mel-schillings-husband-says-no-one-can-heal-his-heartache-after-mafs-stars-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/688289\/","title":{"rendered":"Mel Schilling\u2019s husband says \u2018no one can heal his heartache\u2019 after MAFS star\u2019s death"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\t\tMel Schilling died in March at the age of 54 after a terminal cancer diagnosis (Picture: Mel Schilling\/Instagram)<\/p>\n

Mel Schilling<\/a>\u2019s husband has paid tribute to the Married at First Sight<\/a> star to mark the anniversary of their marriage, after her death earlier this year<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The beloved dating coach died in March at the age of 54, after doctors had informed her that the cancer<\/a> she had been diagnosed with had spread to her brain.<\/p>\n

A statement shared by her husband Gareth Brisbane to Instagram<\/a> said that in her final moments, Schilling whispered a message for him and their daughter Maddie<\/a> which \u2018will sustain him for the rest of his life\u2019.<\/p>\n

The couple married in Bali in 2020 and Brisbane has now shared a photo of the couple kissing and holding their daughter on their wedding day, to commemorate his first anniversary without her.<\/p>\n

In the caption he wrote: \u2018Ah my one. Hard to reconcile that the anniversary of the happiest day of my life could become one of the saddest.<\/p>\n

\u2018We didn\u2019t quite make eight years married or 15 years together but what a love and what a life we had!\u2019<\/p>\n

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\n\t\tThe MAFS star\u2019s husband Gareth Brisbane has shared a tribute to her (Picture: Ben Montgomery\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n

He went on to recall their first date together and how by the end of it, he knew he wanted to spend the rest of his life with the reality star.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018My love for you burned ever brighter, even as your own light faded,\u2019 Brisbane wrote in the emotional post. \u2018Sleep easy my girl, I hope you know that Maddie and I are in the best possible place to continue healing.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018She is every inch your daughter and you would be so proud of the remarkable young woman she is becoming.\u2019<\/p>\n

He then concluded: \u2018Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.\u2019<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\u2018We didn\u2019t quite make eight years married or 15 years together but what a love and what a life we had!\u2019 (Picture: Instagram\/Mel Schilling)<\/p>\n

The couple met on a dating website eight years prior to their wedding, at which Schilling previously admitted she \u2018had a bit of a cry\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u2018It\u2019s just the meaning of it all,\u2019 she told Who Magazine. \u2018I was a late bloomer in life. I didn\u2019t meet my husband until I was nearly 40 and then we had our daughter when I was nearly 42, so to be finally saying our \u201cI dos\u201d was an emotional time. It was very special.\u2019<\/p>\n

In the March post sharing her terminal diagnosis, Schilling said of her husband and daughter: \u2018These two beside me are my everything.\u2019<\/p>\n

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