Robbie Williams and Ayda Field have been left devastated over a double tragedy in their family following the death of both of their dogs on the same night.
Taking to Instagram on Thursday, the pop legend, 50, and his America actress wife, 45, revealed their beloved pooches Poupette and Walle died together in bed, with the losses marking the ‘closing of one huge chapter’.
In a lengthy caption, Ayda told how Poupette had been a part of her life for 18 years, being her companion before she met the former Take That star, before they went on to create a ‘blended’ dog family with the introduction of Walle a few years later.
Sharing details about their final moments, Ayda told how Poupette and Walle – who served as Maid of Honour and Best Man at the couple’s 2010 wedding – passed on listening to Abba’s Dancing Queen while ‘surrounded by tremendous love’.
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Alongside a series of images of the dogs, Ayda penned: ‘Today, our dogs Poupette & Walle left this planet to start an adventure in an infinite galaxy far, far away. They died together in bed, listening to ‘Dancing Queen’, surrounded by tremendous love.’
Going on to detail the backstory of their four-legged friends, she continued: ‘For those of you who don’t know about Poupette and Walle, here’s some backstory… Poupette’s been with me 18 years.
‘From the day we met, she was my soulmate. I was a single girl, and all of a sudden, with Poupette, I was a ‘single mom’:).
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‘Everyone that knows me, called Poupette ‘my shadow’…because wherever I’d go, she was right behind me. It’s weird how you can share so much with a being that can’t communicate back in the same language. But, that’s the beauty of unconditional love…it needs no words.
‘When I met Rob 6 months later, I told him Poupette and I were a package deal. Rob, at the time, had 3 big dogs & I assumed he’d balk at the idea of having to take a tiny, white, fluffy dog on the streets, shouting ‘Poupette’ with a Northern English accent.
‘But, Rob immediately fell in love with her and all of a sudden, the big tattooed, popstar… became a small-fluffy-dog kinda guy.
‘When things got serious a year later, we decided to expand our family and get a dog together.’
