Fans pay respects at The Wanted singer Tom Parker's funeral
Hundreds of fans have gathered outside the funeral of The Wanted singer Tom Parker, who died from brain cancer last month at the age of 33.
Traffic came to a standstill and the large crowd fell silent as the coffin was carried from the undertaker's into the waiting hearse. The silence, save for the occasional dog barking or baby crying, was striking for what is normally a busy high street. Parker's bandmates Jay McGuiness, Max George, Siva Kaneswaran and Nathan Sykes carried his coffin into the church as the poignant Champagne Supernova by Oasis played over the speakers.The Wanted's Max George and Jay McGuiness helped carry the coffin into the church
He continued: "[Tom] was the only member of The Wanted to have a punch-up with every member of The Wanted." The mourners laughed warmly as Kaneswaran, who was standing beside George, added: "He did lose every fight, by the way." "Life with you, Tom, was never boring," she continued. "We spent a lot of our first years together drinking Mahiki [nightclub] dry, dancing all night long, parties in our Battersea flat, and having the funniest, most irrelevant drunken fights.
Kaneswaran remembered Parker's "big Boltonian heart", adding: "He was never afraid to stand up for what was right, no matter the risk." "And he was our favourite person in the world. None of us want to be here, obviously, but we get to do this together."
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