TOWIE’s Jake Hall’s childhood sweetheart Chloe Lewis responded to a post honouring the late star days after his death aged 35.
The reality TV star and was found dead by police at around 7.30am on Wednesday at a rented property in Santa Margalida, Mallorca with fatal head wounds, believed to have been caused by shards of glass after falling through a glass door.
Chloe, 35, dated Jake from their teenage years before their romance became on-off during their stints on the show, with Jake joining in 2015 and remaining a regular cast member from series 14 to series 17.
Despite an acrimonious end to their relationship in 2016, after news of his death erupted on Thursday, Chloe maintained a dignified silence before liking the poignant post from Jake’s pal Dan Bulman about his late friend.
In his touching message, Dan touched on Jake being a ‘fiercely loyal and loving father’ to his eight-year-old daughter River, whom he shares with Real Housewives Of Cheshire star Misse Bequiri, and also shared a ‘manifesto’ they wrote together.
TOWIE’s Jake Hall’s childhood sweetheart Chloe Lewis responded to a post honouring the late star days after his death aged 35 (Jake and Chloe pictured in 2015)
Despite an acrimonious end to their relationship in 2016, after news of his death erupted on Thursday, Chloe maintained a dignified silence before liking the poignant post from Jake’s pal Dan Bulman about his late friend
After news of the tragedy came to light on Thursday, tributes flooded in for the star – many of which included mention to Jake’s daughter.
Chloe’s nod to her ex came in her like on Dan’s post, which read: ‘I rarely post stuff on here but if there’s one guy worth taking a different path for it’s my mate Jake. It’s incredibly hard to believe he’s gone in a flash, just like that…
‘I’d regularly joke with Jake that he was all over the place, in fact we joked about that on the phone 2 days ago…
‘We joked about it, because it was his biggest strength too. Jake’s ability to balance all his raw creative power together with how personable he was, as demonstrated by the outpouring of love for him, made him nothing short of incredible…
‘What really gets to me today is how he’d just begun channeling his energy into a plan to bring it to the world properly, a plan I was proud to help formulate with him as a friend…
‘And one I believe would have set him on the way to delivering everything he wanted to, which was only ever to make his daughter proud…
‘Jake was a fiercely loving and dedicated dad – his daughter was his entire world and as a father myself, the fact they’ve been separated too early is devastating…
‘If there’s a message I think Jake would want to leave behind, it would be this: in a world that constantly tells us we should be in a box, or stay in a lane we didn’t choose, find a place you belong and are accepted for everything you are, even if that’s just within you…
The reality TV star and was found dead by police at around 7.30am on Wednesday at a rented property in Santa Margalida, Mallorca with fatal head wounds, believed to have been caused by shards of glass after falling through a glass door
Jake had coined a manifesto shared by Dan in his tribute post
Jake shares his daughter River, eight, with his ex-fiancée Misse Bequiri (pictured May 2019)
‘In the comments I’m going to put the manifesto we co-wrote for what was to be Jake’s next chapter. Whilst it was never meant to be seen in this form, it feels fitting for it to sit here now as a tribute to Jake’s greatness…
‘Rest in peace, Jake. You don’t understand now, but later, you will.’
The manifesto in question read: ‘Keep it simple. That’s what you’re told.
‘Pick one thing. Introduce yourself with a job title. Be easier to explain. Stop taking up so much space with all your contradictions, your ambition and your sensitivity, your commerce and your creativity, your hunger for beauty and your need to build.’
‘That’s what you’re told. So you learned to edit. To lead with one part of you, and quietly carry the rest. To walk into rooms and leave whole versions of yourself outside. But you never let go. Not really…
‘Through the hard times ‑ and there have been hard times ‑ you held onto the parts of yourself that you were told didn’t fit. The creative work. The vision…
‘The belief that something better was possible. That the pain was pointing somewhere. That if you kept going, if you kept building, if you refused to be only one thing ‑ it would mean something…
A road in Majorca has been sealed off by police following the news of his tragic death
‘And it did. You didn’t lose yourself. You built something out of all of it. Something that doesn’t have a simple label, because, like you, it was never meant to. This place is for you. This place doesn’t exist in separate lanes…
‘What you wear, what you see on the walls, who you sit next to, what you read, how you dance, where you sleep ‑ all of it speaks the same language. The language of people who never stopped wanting everything…
‘You don’t have to explain yourself here. You don’t have to lead with one thing and leave the rest at the door. You don’t have to choose between who you are and where you belong. This was built for all of you…
‘Every contradictory, extraordinary, multi‑dimensional part of you. The world told you to choose. So, choose. Choose everything.’
Four men and two women are said to have been quizzed by police following the tragic incident, after officers were called to a rented house in Santa Margalida.
A source said: ‘Witnesses told investigators he had been out partying all night and decided to carry on the party back at the place he was renting.’
No arrests are thought to have been made, but an investigation, led by the Spanish Civil Guard, is ongoing. Jake’s autopsy is due to take place in Palma.
