Jaymi Hensley tearfully explains why he had fiancé’s funeral same day as planned wedding

Union J singer Jaymi Hensley has spoken of his decision to have his fiancé Olly Marmon’s funeral on the same day as what would have been their wedding.

Marmon tragically died in August 2024 after falling from a hotel window. His funeral took place on 24 September, which was the date he and Hensley were due to get married.

Speaking on the What If People Find Out? podcast, Hensley spoke about the decision to have the funeral on their wedding date.

“It was my choice. This is how practical you become in sudden grief – we had the venue booked, the caterers, everyone was off work… it made sense,” he said.

“Everyone was free so there would be no people saying, ‘I can’t make it.’

“I promised him I was going to walk him down the aisle on that day, so I felt a duty to do it.”

He added: “And I didn’t want to be alone on that day.

“I didn’t want to sit there and for it to be a random Tuesday where I was on my mum’s sofa, grieving with all of my family around going, ‘They’d have been getting married now.'”

Hensley continued: “It had to be something as big as a wedding, which a funeral is, to take up that much time and space in my brain and to occupy me that day. It was the most beautiful and worst day of my life.”

Olly Marmon’s funeral

Former X Factor star Hensley was in tears as he spoke of his fiancé’s funeral due to the huge number of people who came along.

“It was a tiny village church and when I saw the people queueing outside the church and down the streets, I was just so blown away,” he said.

“It was so beautiful that so many people turned up for my boy.”

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