Send-off to be a celebration

farmhouse in Kent to comfort the 41-year-old. Fighting back tears, she remembered: “Andre sent me a text at 1am. I woke up to it. I was just numb. I just couldn’t comprehend what the text had said.

“As soon as I got myself together I went down to the house.

“Over the last few days, we’ve started conversations crying and end up laughing with tears just remembering ridiculous stories. “I think on the first day we were all just wandering around n umb and then yesterday I spent the entire day doing f lower arrangements. There were so many flowers and gifts from people. Someone sent us a video of what was a really beautiful send-off at the Vauxhall Tavern.

“The thing that got us all was that instead of having a moment’s silence, they had a moment’s cheer and that just set us all off. It was such a lovely thing.

“You think you’re OK and then something like that just gets you. It was such a lovely gesture to hear all this noise for him.

“It ’ s been an enormous comfort to know that he was so loved. And for a k id from Birkenhead to have the Queen Consort send a message of condolence speaks volumes. “

Amanda – who invited the comic to be godfather to her sons Milo and Otis – last spoke to him over the phone last week. She went on: “I’m heartbroken for me because I’ve lost my best friend but I’m not heartbroken for Paul because he absolutely rinsed his life. He got absolutely everything he could out of it and that is wonderful.

“He lived 67 lives with the adventures he created in his life and the things he did and thehe places he would go.

He did everything he couldld and he never had regrets.

“He said: ‘ What’s the point?t? It’s done now. There’s no pointnt regretting anything’.

“I said to Andre yesterday:y: ‘ This could have happened withth him alone in a hotel room on tourur somewhere obscure.

“Instead, he was at home inn the place he loved with thee person he loved.

“I’m sure he would have said,, ‘ That’s the way to do it’.”