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Wayne Mardle has found love once more, just over a year after the passing of his wife, Donna. The darts legend was married to Donna for 22 years before she tragically died following a short illness in December 2024.

It now appears that Mardle has found a new romance with 53-year-old single mum Deborah. The Englishman features regularly in her TikTok videos, which capture the pair's clear affection for one another. Earlier this month, a video of the couple smiling and sharing tender moments was posted with the caption: "If you're lucky enough to get a second chance at happiness, it's really important you take it."

Just last week, she shared another post, writing: "When your boyfriend left a few hours ago and now you're watching him on TV, but the dog's only wondering when dad's coming back to walk him."

Mardle had previously spoken about the "absolutely brutal" grieving process following his wife's death. The Sky Sports pundit said in February: "This is a first for me, I'm having one of those days. This is the first of another genre of TikTok for me, I think you may even call it 'GriefTok.'

"Normally it is a bit of golf and a bit of darts. My wife Donna died on December 11, 2024, so about 430 odd days ago, I used to count the days, call that progress, call it what you like.

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"It doesn't feel like progress, it is absolutely brutal. The reason I'm doing this is, while it is brutal, I am still here and all you can do is keep trying, right, keep trying." He added: "It is a process, so I'm told and you go through stages. You don't go through stages. You go through phases, there's a phase and then there's another phase.

"Before you know it that phase is returning so the stage or phase you think is going to pass, it doesn't work that way. So however you're feeling is how you're feeling, don't worry about it and when I say that I literally mean deal with it how you feel you want to deal with it, there's no right or wrong here.

"I used to literally go every day to Donna's graveside. I haven't been there for the past... well, since Christmas Day and it is now February 21. I don't feel guilty, I just feel like I can't do it because it beats me, beats me every time I go over there, you have a millisecond off of forgetting, right, that's about it.

"But I just want to tell you all, that those who are going through similar, don't overthink it, don't double bluff yourself, just get on with it how you think is right and the people who question you are not your friends, they're not your family, they have a perception of grief, it's incorrect.

"It's just brutal, it really is brutal but all I'm saying to all of you is, if I can help one person, I'm not even helping myself here, I don't know what I'm doing, just do it how you want to do it, don't overthink it, please don't. I hope tomorrow is better than today."