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Gavin Rossdale is mourning the loss of his mother, Barbara.
The Bush frontman shared the news of his mother’s death on Instagram on Friday. “28th Jan at 5pm I lost my mama,” he wrote. “After a long tortuous fight she left us. It’s hard to put into words the bond we had and the void she leaves.”
Rossdale continued, “The world feels lonelier and today the journey seems longer and more uphill. I know she is with me at all times because that is the way with love and loss. We carry those who we love yet cannot see. That is my comfort. I send you all my love.”
The singer shared a number of photos of his mother, including one where he’s standing alongside her, holding the Ivor Novello Award he won for International Achievement from the British Academy in 2013.
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Rossdale shares three children with his ex-wife Gwen Stefani, and previously revealed that their youngest — 10-year-old Apollo Bowie Flynn Rossdale — is named after his kids’ grandmothers. “Bowie and Flynn =mothers’ maiden names,” he wrote on social media in 2014. Stefani’s mother’s maiden name is Flynn, and his mother’s was Bowie (and no, there’s no relation between his family and David Bowie, who used that surname as a stage name to avoid confusion with the Monkees’ Davey Jones). Rossdale is also father to singer Daisy Lowe.
Earlier this month, Rossdale announced that Bush’s tenth studio album, I Beat Loneliness, will be released later this year.
Rossdale also recently revealed that he’s hosting a cooking show, Dinner with Gavin Rossdale, which premieres on Feb. 13 on VIZIO WatchFree+. The show includes big-name guests like Serena Williams, Common, Selma Blair, Jack McBrayer, and Tom Jones.
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“Miles Davis said that every musician should be able to cook, so I took that as a great inspiration in my love affair with food,” Rossdale says in the trailer for the series. In the promo, he also invokes his mother as he throws salt over his shoulder: “My mum told me always to do that.”
