Charlene White Shares Dads Ashes, Sisters Wedding

has emotionally shared a photo from her late father's ashes scattering ceremony that took place two days before her sister's wedding.

The newsreader and  host, told fans how her dad Denniston's final resting place is in Jamaica after the family scattered his ashes in the Caribbean Sea.

Charlene announced his death in October 2025 and revealed he tragically took his own life after 'living with a dark cloud he couldn't lift'.

Taking to social media on Wednesday, the TV star shared an emotional image of three of his grandchildren looking out to see.

She penned: 'There are so many unknowns about why he chose the time of his death, but what we did know for sure is that he would want to be taken home to the country of his birth.

'As much as it was a trip consumed by so much emotion and grief. It was also full of joy.

'This picture was taken at my sister Gemma’s wedding two days after the scattering, with the kids dressed in their wedding finery. On her special day we laughed, danced and were grateful to have each other. It reinforced that although he’s no longer here, he left us the gift of love.'

Continuing, Charlene said how her 'heart ached' being on the island without her beloved father by her side.

She wrote: 'I can’t begin to tell you how much he would’ve adored having us all there. With every joke told, and every memory shared, someone would take a pause, shake their head, and say, “Dennis would’ve loved this”.

'You can wish and pray for things to be different a million times over, but some decisions are final. 

The mother-of-two concluded her tribute: 'But at least now he’s forever part of the waters that never left his heart, no matter the decades spent in London: the gorgeous, beautiful and mesmerising Caribbean Sea.'

Last October, Charlene took to Instagram where she heartbreakingly confessed she had spent 'many, many hours' asking why her father . 

In a lengthy caption she penned: 'This week we said a final goodbye to my dad. Two services and a huge wake… hundreds came to celebrate a man who meant so much to so many.

'We’ve spent many many hours asking ourselves why he decided to take his own life, and we’ll no doubt spend many more. But the reality is we may never know, and we have to find a way live alongside that truth.

'But what we do know is we don’t want others to feel like they have no choice but to succumb to the darkness, nor do we want any other family to be left with the pain, hurt and heartache that we are now living with.'

Charlene

Before her father's death, Charlene faced heartbreak when her best fiend Darrell died from Sarcoma cancer.

Charlene was just 20 when her mother Dorrett died from bowel cancer at the age of 47. 

She first explained that, upon finding out she was pregnant, Charlene 'was fine' but grief caught up with her unexpectedly.

'I was fine about it, I took the test, I was completely fine with it. But there was a moment, when I started showing and I was in the bath', she remembered, 'I was looking at the bump in my belly and it hit me that I was going to have to learn to be a mother when I was motherless.

'The one person that I needed to guide through this really massive moment in my life wasn't there. That's the one moment where I completely lost it and I just cried and cried.

'I couldn't stop because grief presents itself when you least expect it and when I gave birth to Alfie, it's that realisation that your mum is the only person you'll physically connect to.'

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