{"id":170038,"date":"2025-06-09T10:47:16","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T10:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/170038\/"},"modified":"2025-06-09T10:47:16","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T10:47:16","slug":"goggleboxs-malone-family-announce-devastating-death-and-are-flooded-with-support-from-heartbroken-fans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/170038\/","title":{"rendered":"Gogglebox’s Malone family announce devastating death – and are flooded with support from heartbroken fans"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gogglebox’s Malone family have announced a devastating death.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Tom Sr., Julie, and Shaun joined the Channel 4 show back in 2014 for its fourth series.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The trio have become huge fan favourites and are usually joined by their adorable gang of Rottweilers on their iconic red sofas.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But Shaun recently took to his Instagram to share the news that their pooch Bob has passed away.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Sharing some clips and pictures of their beloved dog, he wrote: ‘Today is the day we had to say goodbye to big bob, absolute great dog like a big cuddly bear.’\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Many rushed to the comments section to send their love and support.<\/p>\n

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Gogglebox’s Malone family announce devastating death – and are flooded with support from heartbroken fans<\/p>\n

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Shaun recently took to his Instagram to share the news that their pooch Bob (pictured) has passed away<\/p>\n

‘Awww that last picture, says it all with them eyes so sorry for your loss.’<\/p>\n

‘So sorry run free over the rainbow bridge sweet boy.’<\/p>\n

‘RIP Bob, enjoy your playtime with Dave over the doggo rainbow.’<\/p>\n

‘Aww run free biggest bestest dogs over! Sending hugs to you all x.’<\/p>\n

‘I\u2019m so sorry to hear this.’<\/p>\n

It comes after the Malones shared their heartbreak as their \u00a0family dog Dave died back in 2023.<\/a><\/p>\n

Posting on Instagram, they wrote: ‘RIP Dave xxx There are no words to describe you, or how much you meant to us.<\/p>\n

‘This was you on Sunday waiting for your Dad to come back and he had only gone out to the car x We are all going to miss you so much.’<\/p>\n

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Many rushed to Shaun’s post to share the love and support to the family after losing their beloved pooch<\/p>\n

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Shaun shared some sweet pictures of the pooch on Instagram to pay tribute to his family member<\/p>\n

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Their beloved dog Dave (pictured) passed away in 2023 and confirmed the news on social media too\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Tom Snr., Shaun and Julie pictured with Tom – who left the Channel 4 show in 2022\u00a0<\/p>\n

In 2022 it was also revealed that their Rottweiler Lucy had passed away<\/a>, while their other\u00a0dog Frank died in 2018.<\/a><\/p>\n

Clearly big dog lovers, three years ago they did welcome a new addition to their family – a puppy Rottweiler called Tilly.\u00a0\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

The Malones have been on the popular programme for over a decade.<\/p>\n

While the mum and dad duo, alongside their son Shaun are currently on the series, they were also joined by their other son Tom when they originally started.<\/p>\n

However Tom left the show in 2022.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

It’s not the first Gogglebox death in recent months.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Channel 4<\/a> stars, the Siddiquis, announced a heartbreaking death in their family and have been flooded with support from fans.<\/p>\n

The Gogglebox icons, Sid, Raza, Baasit, and Umar, have featured on the show since it started back in 2013.<\/p>\n

They shared a sad update about their family via Instagram earlier this week and revealed that their pet cat Rufus had sadly passed away aged 15.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The touching post, which was accompanied by a collection of photos of the beloved cat, read: ‘Goodnight our beautiful boy Rufus.<\/p>\n

’15 and a half years wasn\u2019t long enough, you were and always will be a big part of our lives.\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘The most chilled, cuddly and beautiful boy who made us a family right back at the beginning.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Channel 4 stars, the Siddiqui’s, announced a heartbreaking death in their family and have been flooded with support from fans\u00a0<\/p>\n

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They shared an update on their family via Instagram earlier this week and revealed their pet cat Rufus had sadly passed away at 15 years old<\/p>\n

‘Lots of memories that we will never forget and we are truly grateful to have known & loved you.<\/p>\n

‘Sleep tight our handsome Boy.’<\/p>\n

Loyal fans took to the comments to wish the family well and one penned: ‘It is devastating when we lose a beloved family member. I am always saddened to read such posts. RIP your beautiful boy.’;<\/p>\n

‘I’m so sorry for your loss. They’re never with us long enough but how lucky are we that they choose us.’;<\/p>\n

‘So sorry for your loss. They\u2019re such huge part of the family.’; ‘Aw bless.’;<\/p>\n

‘I know that pain thinking of you all.’<\/p>\n

Gogglebox airs on Channel 4 and is available to stream on channel4.com.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gogglebox’s Malone family have announced a devastating death.\u00a0 Tom Sr., Julie, and Shaun joined the Channel 4 show…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170039,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[411,92,77,70878,459,382,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-170038","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-channel-4","9":"tag-dailymail","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-gogglebox-uk","12":"tag-instagram","13":"tag-tv","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114653013570335905","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}