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Jake Hall's childhood sweetheart and ex-girlfriend, Chloe Lewis, has reacted to an emotional tribute following his sudden death.
The shock news broke on Thursday (7 May) that the former TOWIE star had died in Santa Margalida, Mallorca, aged 35.
A spokesperson at the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) confirmed Jake's death, telling Tyla in a statement: "We are supporting the family of a British man who has died in Spain and are in contact with the local authorities."
A cause of death has not yet been shared, but The Sun reports that an ongoing investigation is being led by the Spanish Civil Guard.
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Jake's loved ones have been taking to social media to react to the devastating news, and heartfelt fan tributes have been pouring in for the late reality TV star.
The father-of-one leaves behind his daughter River, eight, whom he shares with 39-year-old model and Real Housewives of Cheshire star Misse Beqiri.
Jake joined TOWIE in 2015 during series 14 as the ex-boyfriend of Chloe, hoping to win her back.
When they eventually rekindled, their romance became one of the most talked-about storylines on the ITV show.
As per Hello! Magazine, the couple were on/off couple for eight years, but ended up calling it quits in the series 17 finale of TOWIE in 2016.
He left the reality TV show in 2024 and pursued his menswear brand called By Jake Hall.
Although Chloe has yet to post a tribute herself, as reported by MailOnline, she did drop a like on Jake's friend Dan Bulman's lengthy Instagram tribute.
Dan wrote: "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."
He emotionally continued: "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.
"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 he mentioned 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..."
It continued: "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."
