{"id":829259,"date":"2026-11-09T17:38:14","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T17:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/829259\/"},"modified":"2026-11-09T17:38:14","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T17:38:14","slug":"homes-under-the-hammers-tommy-walsh-has-died-following-long-illness-aged-69","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/829259\/","title":{"rendered":"Homes Under the Hammer’s Tommy Walsh has died following “long illness”, aged 69"},"content":{"rendered":"

TV presenter Tommy Walsh died at the age of 69.<\/p>\n

According to reports, his agent confirmed his death in a statement that says: \u201cTommy died peacefully after a long illness surrounded by his family. <\/p>\n

\u201cAs this has only just happened, we would ask everyone to please respect the family’s privacy.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Mike Marsland\/\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

Walsh is survived by his wife and three children. Tributes have poured in for the television personality, including from his former football team Old Parmiterians FC.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Tommy Walsh,\u201d the football club posted on X<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cA Parmiters boy, he played for the club for many years in goal but made a great career as a TV personality in shows such as Ground Force. He will be sorely missed. RIP Tommy.\u201d<\/p>\n

He was a popular figure on television, appearing on shows such as Homes Under the Hammer from 2021 to 2024.<\/p>\n

He began to make a name for himself in the late ’90s on the gardening show Ground Force from 1997 to 2005 alongside Alan Titchmarsh and Charlie Dimmock.<\/p>\n

Walsh was tasked with hard landscaping in the various gardens he helped to transform, before hosting his own home improvement show from 2002 to 2005 titled Challenge Tommy Walsh.<\/p>\n

Most recently, Walsh featured on BBC\u2019s Clean It, Fix It, hosted by Mark Wright, which came to an end in October.<\/p>\n

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Eamonn McCormack\/\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

Related: Homes Under the Hammer’s Martin Roberts addresses show future after new TV role<\/a><\/p>\n

Walsh was diagnosed with throat cancer back in 2022, and though he made a full recovery, doctors confirmed he had lung cancer just two years later, which he was overcoming.<\/p>\n

Explaining his ordeal, he told The Mirror<\/a> in 2024: “My cancer came back earlier this year, they found it again under the lung. <\/p>\n

“It is now not anywhere else. It is going away. Because it is shrinking it will shrink down to nothing and disappear. I will then just have to have annual checks. It has worked for me really well.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TV presenter Tommy Walsh died at the age of 69. According to reports, his agent confirmed his death…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":829260,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[272220,6491,147950,379,272221,381,96,190731,1156,272219,223205,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-829259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-aged-69","tag-celebrities","tag-collection-latest-news","tag-content-type-news","tag-contentid-666d1eb2-af8f-488d-a837-1c46eb6bd7d2","tag-displaytype-standard-article","tag-entertainment","tag-issyndicated-false","tag-locale-gb","tag-shorttitle-homes-under-the-hammers-tommy-walsh-dies","tag-sponsored-false","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=829259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/829260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=829259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=829259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=829259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}