Denise Drysdale’s co-star has claimed she turned her parents’ ashes into salt and pepper shakers, and now takes them on holiday with her to keep them close to her heart.
Studio 10 star Sarah Harris appeared on Tuesday’s Hughesy, We Have A Problem to made the admission, after meeting a woman whose father’s remains had been turned into a teapot.
As the panel discussed the bizarre decision, Harris shocked viewers as she brought up her co-star Denise, and said: “She [Denise] has her parents, her Mum and Dad, in a salt and pepper shaker.”
She added: “She takes them on her travels. She does a lot of cruising and she pops down to the buffet with Mum and Dad.”
The statement was met with some confusion from her fellow panellists, who questioned how that worked, but Hughesy quickly cleared it up by joking: “She’s not sprinkling them on her food!”
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It came after their guest viewer revealed her own unease after her mother chose to have her father’s remains turned into the teapot. She explained: “There’s a few problems here. But one of them is that when we go over to Mum’s house now, she says, ‘come and have a cup of tea with your father.’ We’re like, ‘yeah, no thanks’.”
Unfortunately by then, the entire panel had taken a sip from the pot, and quickly spat out the drink in shock. The conversation then took a turn for the worse, as Sarah joked: “Was he a fan of tea-bagging?” Causing two of the panellists to walk off laughing.
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— Hughesy We Have A Problem (@hughesywhap) April 10, 2018
More and more families have been choosing different options for their loved one’s ashes in recent years, and a grieving woman previously revealed she planned to scatter her late mother’s ashes over her Christmas dinner last year.
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Parsons, 41, has a “spoonful” of her mum’s ashes most days as she struggles to come to terms with her loss, and felt it was important to treasure her memory on Christmas Day.
“It is the only thing that will get me through my first Christmas without mum,” she told the Daily Mirror at the time. “People might think I’m mad or that it’s not a very respectful thing to do but I just can’t stop myself.”
She admitted it felt like a good way for her mother to be “involved” in the special day, and added: “I feel like she can live on by being inside of me because if she is part of me she can breathe through my body. My breath is her breath.”
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