Jake Hall’s close pal Ryan Thomas has revealed the heartbreaking final message the star sent him, just days before he tragically died at the age of 35.
The former TOWIE star died from a chest injury caused by broken glass on Wednesday at a rented property in Santa Margalida, where he had been living as he focused on his artwork.
Jake suffered head wounds after allegedly turning aggressive and trying to harm himself during a party at the £200-a-night Majorcan villa, investigators say.
Ryan shared a lengthy post on Instagram paying tribute to Jake, where he said he was ‘in awe’ of him when they first met.
The former Coronation Street star added that they used to speak ‘nearly every day’ before sharing their final exchange before his death.
Ryan, whose fiancée Lucy Mecklenburgh is close friends with Jake’s ex Chloe Lewis, shared a video of himself and the star dressed in matching white suits as they partied together.
Jake Hall’s close pal Ryan Thomas has revealed the heartbreaking final message the star sent him, just days before he tragically died at the age of 35
Ryan shared a lengthy post on Instagram paying tribute to Jake, where he said he was ‘in awe’ of him when they first met
He wrote: ‘The moment I met Jake, I was in awe of him. I found myself gravitating towards him.
‘He was always the coolest guy in the room, he had class, charisma, this magic about him that nobody else had. Anyone who met him, even once, remembered him forever.
‘I used to ring him nearly every day reminding him how special he was and how much happiness he brought people through his music, fashion and art. Everything he touched felt effortless, but really it was genius.
‘I remember asking him once who filmed those videos of you walking across the street. He laughed and said, ‘I just ask random strangers and teach them to zoom in at the right time.’
‘The video on his insta of the hotel porter on his bed taking pictures of him in his new collection is what Jake’s all about he had a special gift & we were all drawn to him.
‘It took a while for him to let me in, but once you were in, you were in. The deep chats, the hysterical laughs even the petty fallouts — We shared it all.
‘We had the same morals, the same family values, and the same outlook on life: we genuinely wanted people around us to win.
‘As I write this now I can hear him laughing saying, Shut up you silly c**t.
In his post, Ryan paid tribute to Jake while sharing how he ‘idolised’ his family, while sharing their final message
The video showed Ryan and Jake in matching white suits as they partied together
The clip showed the pals alongside Ryan’s brothers Scott and Adam, after the TOWIE star died from a chest injury caused by broken glass on Wednesday at a rented property in Mallorca
On Friday, sources close to the ongoing probe said the worst injury Jake suffered was a chest wound caused by a shard of glass from the door he crashed into
‘For all the people that admired his talent, what mattered most to him was always his family. He idolised his dad, adored his mum, and loved his little brother more than words could ever explain.You just felt it every time he spoke about them.
‘His next chapter is written in the stars now and it’s all about River. I promise she’ll grow up surrounded by love and stories about how inspiring & powerful her daddy is.
‘You wrote this in a message to me just last week so I’m sending the same one back. I love you mate. More than you’ll ever know.’
On Friday, sources close to the ongoing probe said the worst injury Jake suffered was a chest wound caused by a shard of glass from the door he crashed into at the property in Santa Margalida in the north of the island early on Wednesday morning.
The autopsy was expected to take place yesterday in the Majorcan capital Palma although the results will be sent to an investigating judge and will not be officially released, as is normal in Spain.
The insider said: ‘The thorax injury was the one emergency responders at the scene felt was the most traumatic one and most likely to have been fatal.’
Cops confirmed the reality TV star and model’s death is being treated as accidental.
A Civil Guard spokesman said: ‘There is nothing pointing to it being the result of a crime at this stage.’
An investigating magistrate in the town of Inca is understood to have been sent an initial police report and will be receiving the autopsy results as they become available.
The results of the post-mortem will yield only partial answers and will be complemented with tests on tissue samples sent to a specialist lab on the Spanish mainland.
Those tests will help cement suspicions Jake was high on drink and drugs when he died.
The investigating magistrate will only order the Civil Guard, the response police force, to conduct more inquiries if he suspects any criminality has occurred and could have contributed to the star’s death.
Civil Guard officers are understood to have quizzed several other people at the house where the death occurred, believed to be four men and two women. Their nationalities have not been released.
Officers based in Santa Margalida informed HQ around 7.30am on Wednesday about the discovery of a man’s body at the rented property.
Respected local paper Ultima Hora reported later the same day a neighbour had heard a group of people talking about drugs the day before the horror incident.
The neighbour told the paper they ‘hadn’t been causing problems’ and seemed ‘relatively normal’ although he admitted to being scared by how one of the group members looked.
He claimed he also heard them talking in English about buying a property in the area, and reported he had been woken up a few hours before police arrived, saying: ‘It must have been around 2am. It was late but I was still awake.
‘I began to hear a very loud noise, as if they were drilling something. I felt the walls vibrate. They stopped after about five minutes and then I fell asleep.’
Another neighbour said she hadn’t heard anything out of the ordinary and when she walked her dog just after 7am on Wednesday didn’t see anything strange.
Jake’s body was removed around 1pm on Wednesday.
