In the last season of the Hajj, which was broadcast on Easter, Jay McGoenis was brought to cry while recalling his former colleague Tom Parker, who died in 2022.
Jay McGoenis was emotionary drowned in the latest BBC Hajj season.
When pop star Tom Parker died of cancer in 2022, he found his dear friend and colleague in the band, Jay McGois, he himself drowned in sadness and doubts his beliefs.
Now in Hajj: The road across the Alps, Jay begins to search for answers. But what begins with a journey through the landscape of breathtaking, soon turns into something that is much deeper. “I cried more than ever,” says Jay.
Starting on Easter on Sunday, the three -parts of seven -parts are known from different backgrounds, with a range of beliefs and perspectives.
Join Jeff Prazier, comedian actress and actress Helen Leder, joined the traitors Winner Harry Clark, comedian Daliso Shabonda, Made Space Stephanie Reed and journalist Nilofar gifts.
They walked together about 300 km from Austria to the Einsiedeln Monastery in Switzerland, and they made their way throughThe amazing but appetite is from the Austrian and Swiss Alps. the goal? To explore faith, ask about identity, and perhaps find some sense of clarity and even friendship along the way.
But for Jay, 34, the experiment started with a weight that is already pressing heavily on his heart. “I had a lot of pre -emptive nerves before the show,” he says. “I knew I would talk about Tom Parker at some point during filming.”
Tom was not just a group colleague – Jay previously described how he was like a brother. The couple first rose to stardom together in 2009 as part of Boy Boy Boy wanted by Max George and Siva Kaniswran and Nathan Sykes.
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The group took a stop in 2014, and while their lives moved in different directions, the bond between them remained strong. But everything changed in October 2020 when Tom was diagnosed with an aromatic tumor, which is rare and aggressive brain cancer. Although he describes himself as not knowing, the news prompted Jay to put his faith with a higher force.
“While Tom was sick, I definitely had moments when I prayed, whether you would call her,” says Jay. “And when I died, I suddenly felt,” I wonder if he could hear me now? “
The loss was destroyed and Jay carried the sadness with him to photograph the show. But it was not even a moment with his colleague Hajj Helen that the dam broke out. “That was the most exciting conversation I had during the entire experience,” he says.
Everything starts when Pilgrimage Director Tony Williamson encouraged him to find someone inside the actors to exchange his pain due to Tom's death. “You asked me who trusted and who I wanted to talk about,” says Jay.
Of all the Hajj group, Helen, 70, became the closest. “She is not afraid to talk about her mind, but she knows when she also retracts,” says Jay. “I knew that we would go throughout the moment I saw it walking in this hill at first. We finished sharing drinks and stories.”
Through all this, Jay was surprised when he found that he was healing as he wrestled with his beliefs. “Whenever I can reach what I am. I don't think there is a god and I do not think it does not exist.”
“I think we are stuck here in this deadly field and are discovered unless there is a hereafter when it goes beyond the curtain, so I am really open to more.
I agreed to go in the Hajj – it looked like the perfect thing to do. Sad I shaved me again. I took a closer look at it and left behind. I was happy to find value here and now, and seeing everyone is going through the Hajj. “
Jay Catholic raised his passion for school, but his condemnation retreated. “I remember making posters against compassionate murder in school,” he says. “I was convinced that no one should be allowed to death. Now I think the full opposite.”
Maybe God did not find while presenting the offer, but he found something else. He says: “I remember that I was thinking during my conversation with Helen,” “If there is no god, at least there is the moment of this human relationship,” he says.
Amid official repercussions and long days of walking, there were also lighter moments. Jay recalls an embarrassing meeting with Harry, all of whom leave them in hysterical.
“We entered an outdoor bath one day and this woman came in the 1970s and washed. She did not speak the word English, she was only in German.”
Jay and Harry also found themselves shedding each other with strange proofs, which raises a lot of Helen. “We started this strange game – what are the chances we see a nun in the next thirty minutes?”
Jay says. “If you lose, it will be lost. Some of them will definitely not make it broadcast – we were very naughty.” Helen says that Helen never realized the rules or even the concept, although she made her explain to her at least three times.
His early religious faith may not have been restored, however Pilgrimage She left her mark. “with accurately [Jay won the show with professional dancer Aliona Vilani in 2015]You turn to the self. with PilgrimageHe says: “You are going into religion, and thus you end up giving up many of you.”
He admits that he started skeptical and cautiously. “At first, we were all cautious, but in the end you can only open.” The abstract nature of the experiment also helped.
Phones were rarely used during photography and meals, often, not shared without distraction. The group walked, spoke, and they were all simultaneous. “At night, we used to see the base for a short time, but frankly, I have exhausted.”
Jay may not find final answers to faith, but what he found was incredibly strong – peace, human relationship and a space to celebrate a friend who had a great impact on his life.
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