Michael Palin, 80, heartbreakingly admits he misses the 'reassurance' his late ... trends now

Michael Palin heartbreakingly admitted he misses the 'reassurance' that his late wife Helen Gibbins gave him during an appearance on Tuesday's episode of Lorraine. 

The Monty Python star, 80, announced Helen had sadly passed away following a battle with chronic pain and kidney failure on May 2 last year, just weeks after they marked their 57th wedding anniversary.

He described her as the 'bedrock of my life' and said her death was an 'indescribable loss' for himself and their three children - Thomas, 55, William, 53, and Rachel, 49. 

Speaking to Lorraine Kelly, Michael said: 'It would have been our 58th anniversary. I find myself looking for reassurance she was terribly good at telling me what I should do and what I shouldn't do. 

'She knew what I liked and when I was happy with work, rather than getting into something I didn't like. I miss her humour a lot too.'

The childhood sweethearts met when they were 16 and married in 1966, marking their 57th wedding anniversary weeks before Helen passed away. 

Michael and Helen met when they were both on summer holidays in Southwold, Suffolk, where they were staying in neighbouring cottages with their families. 

Speaking ahead of his new Channel 5 show, Michael Palin in Nigeria, he explained how he felt he 'had to keep on working' because Helen would have wanted him to go. 

He continued: 'We'd love to do another journey. I'd go with the little group anywhere really.' 

Last week, Michael admitted he still struggles with the 'foreverness' of life without his childhood sweetheart, Helen. 

He said he struggles with the 'foreverness of it' and said life without his lifelong

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