TV chef Parveen Ashraf has said she is preparing to return to work about six months after the death of her husband, Qamar, who she said was killed during a robbery in Ghana. In an emotional social media video, she explained that the loss had led to her absence from work and online activity, and said she now wants to start posting again despite still grieving. The story matters because it marks a public figure’s first detailed account of a personal tragedy that interrupted her career and public presence.

Ashraf, 61, is known as Parveen the Spice Queen and for ITV’s *Parveen’s Indian Kitchen*. She said her husband had been living in Ghana and described him as having been “in the wrong place at the wrong time”; the couple had been together for 38 years and had three children. In a tribute, she shared an old photograph of them on the River Thames and said returning to work was partly for the sake of her own wellbeing, while supporters responded with messages of sympathy and encouragement.