EastEnders’ Larry Lamb reveals the heartbreaking moment his late brother begged him for a kiss before cancer death

EASTENDERS star Larry Lamb revealed the heartbreaking moment his late brother asked him for a kiss before his death from cancer.

The siblings had grown apart in the years before Wesley lost his battle with throat cancer in 2019.

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But the illness helped to heal the rift between the pair and Larry reflected fondly on the treasured time he shared with Wesley in the last days of his life.

Appearing on today's Good Morning Britain to make the Covid-19 day of reflection, Larry spoke about the importance of being with loved ones at the end of their lives - a right stolen from many people during the pandemic.

He said: "He was very very brave about it and made sure no one was feeling bad for him. He wanted you just to have a laugh and joke with him as best he could.

“And it was extraordinary for me to be there with him. We'd had a terrible time beforehand. We had drifted apart but that got us back together. It was lovely. I was able to be there with him sitting in his bed. They even rigged up a bed in the corner of the room for me at the Marie Curie hospice and let me sleep in the room with him. We haven't slept in a room together for like 60 years.”

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In a move that took Larry by surprise, Wes wanted a final kiss from his brother before he passed.

Larry explained: “He looked at me and went [makes kissing sounds] and I said ‘What? You want me to give you a kiss?’ And we just became these two little boys. These monkeys who used to play together and we had a kiss and yeah, it was lovely.

"The thing of all those people who missed the possibility of a moment like that, which is just like one of the most important memories of my life.”

Tragically, Larry wasn't with Wesley when he died because he was visiting a terminally ill friend.

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Both the friend and Wesley were at similar stages of hospice care and nurses at Wesley's centre encouraged him to visit his pal while they "held the fort".

He said previously on This Morning: "This is the weird thing.

"They [doctors] knew right from the beginning that when I was up there [at the hospice], the problem was I had another friend in London, very close to the same point and I was trying to do the two things.

"And they said, 'Look, we're here with him' because it had gone on for five days longer then they expected.

He continued: 'And they said, look we will hold the fort, we will keep in touch, you go off and head south,' and as I went south I got the call where they said, 'That's it he's gone.'"

Ultimately, he was grateful for the time the pair did share together, calling it life-changing.

"Literally it changed my life and attitude to death and making amends and healing up those wounds that have festered for years," he said.

"I am just so grateful that I went and spent time with him."

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