TV TRAGEDY
Audrey Chawner dead at 73: Reality TV star dies as X Factor singer daughter Emma shares heartbreaking wish & last photo
She appeared on a string of reality TV shows
AUDREY Chawner has died "peacefully in her sleep" aged 73.
Audrey appeared on the reality series The Chawner's Last Chance, Lorraine Kelly's Big Fat Challenge and The Jeremy Kyle show.
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Her daughter Emma, who tried out for The X Factor in 2006 and 2007, took to social media to share the sad news.
Alongside an image of her "beautiful" and "amazing" mum, she wrote on Instagram: "I'm just letting you all know my mum passed peacefully in her sleep at 4am this morning."
Emma also revealed a heartbreaking wish - for her mum to "take" the family dog with her - and a last photo with Audrey.
She told The Sun: "She was a lovely lady - loved her TV programmes, loved her animals and loved a good laugh.
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"Her favourite TV programmes were Emmerdale and Eastenders.
"My dog also passed on Tuesday at 11am, and mum died on Monday. I said that night 'mum if you can hear me take Ruby with you'."
She also paid tribute to her mother, from Blackburn, Lancashire, on a GoFundMe page, which was set up to raise money for her funeral.
On the fundraiser, Emma added: "Well, at the moment, with the cost of the funeral it's really bad because I don't receive much money from my job, and with travel to and from the hospital.
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"I've been going back-and-forth for the last two weeks and my dad being in hospital at the moment is nightmare."
The Chawner family appeared on Nightmare Neighbour in 2016, after racking up over 500 complaints from residents in Greater Manchester.
They were finally evicted after upsetting neighbours with loud TV, dogs barking all night and fights in the street.
One neighbour, who remained anonymous on the show, revealed: "I'm glad they no longer live here as they made our lives an absolute misery."
Dad Philip insisted the family were "victimised" but after moving to a new neighbourhood, they faced fresh accusations of threatening behaviour towards one of their new neighbours.
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But the family were no strangers to TV even before they featured on show.
Daughter Emma appeared on The X Factor and was branded a "flump" by Simon Cowell.
She returned a couple of years later with sister Sam and they were unkindly called "The Teletubbies".
The family also appeared on Jeremy Kyle in 2015, with Emma accusing mum Audrey of abandoning the family.
The family, who were branded "too fat to work" and once weighed in at a combined weight of over 90 stone, also appeared in Lorraine Kelly's Big Fat Challenge in 2010.
Three years later they were slammed for claiming £342,000 in benefits.
But in 2020 Emma showed off a weight loss of almost 13 stone after ditching cakes and crisps and drinking more water.
Alongside a slimmed down picture on social media, she said: "Two years and a half ago I weighed 28 stone.
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"I am now 15 stone 9. Thank you everyone for your support.
"I did a 30-day detox last month and lost 11lb. My secret has been no snacking and drinking plenty of fluid.";
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