We keep his urn in the living room to watch T V together

never far from Sophie in spirit. The family had planned to scatter his ashes in Addington, Surrey, where he lived, and at their holiday home in Scotland.

Instead, she admits: “Dad’s ashes are on the sideboard in Mum’s lounge.

“An old friend visited recently and said, ‘I can feel Ron is in the room.’

“Mum went, ‘He is. He’s over there!’ We’re happy with him there right now.

Upset

“We all convene to watch Strictly Come Dancing, which Mum and I love.

“Sometimes my telly just switches on and the kitchen lights go on and off, and I think that might be Dad rather than poor wiring.’

The mum-of-two says her dad gave them the thumbs up recently when her eldest son Dylan, 21, got into top drama school RADA.

“Dylan was upset

t hat his grandfather didn’t know,” she says. “I said, ‘He knows, Dylan, I really believe he knows.’ Then I looked up and said “Dad, give us a sign.’

“That evening at my mum’s, we put the TV on and there was Dad doing stand-up, and d I went, ‘There There you go. That’s him saying ying he knows.’”

Ronnie’s famous amous pals also like to remember him. im. Since his passing, Sophie has dined ned out with Bruce Forsyth’s wife e Winnie.

She has also o caught up with Harry Hill, who bought Ronnie nie Happy

Socks when he e heard the great man was s ill.

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Tarbuck,

David

Walliams and Rob Brydon. “Rob has even kept Dad’s answerphone messages, which is really lovely,” Sophie says.

“He does his great impression of Dad every now and then.”

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