Losing his father to cancer when he was still a teen was a painful blow for rising TV star Tom Williams, yet he retains a touching bond with his dad, writes Leigh Reinhold.
“I speak to him all the time,” says The Great Outdoors presenter, “but especially out in the surf when the waves are non-existent. Then I’ll really speak to him. ‘Hey! Give us a hand’, I’ll say. ‘Send us a wave, will you? I want to go in. I’m getting cold! And make it a big one, too, will you, please?’ And sometimes he does,” Tom says with a smile.
Tom, 36, was just a teenager when his father, David Williams, a Sydney lawyer and life-long smoker, succumbed to cancer. David’s illness and fight for life had an enormous effect on Tom and rarely a day goes by that he doesn’t think of David or talk to him. He misses his father and, as a Catholic, firmly believes that, one day, they will meet again.
It’s this private and spiritual side to the cheeky sometime-chippie that the public never sees. His smile, welcoming blue eyes and indisputable sex appeal on-screen show nothing of the personal heartache he has been through — or the faith that has sustained him in difficult times.
Read the whole story, only in the March 2007 issue of The Australian Women’s Weekly.
Tom Williams ranked number three in our Australia’s Sexiest Man online poll, see who else made the top of the list you helped put together.
Related stories
Native ad body.
Native ad body.
Native ad body.
