Late gran's knickers to be thrown at stage at Tom Jones concert

The granddaughter of a late Tom Jones superfan will bring her grandmother's knickers to an upcoming concert in the hope they will land on stage with him.

Kirsty Graham from Caerphilly was extremely close with her nanny Helen Gauntlett who died in February 2021 and wants to honour her grandmother by chucking her pants at her all time hero.

The 34-year-old said she dug out a pair of her nanny's best knickers to throw towards the stage when Sir Tom Jones appears for his set, just as Helen would have done. Kirsty wrote on the pants in capital letters: "These are my nan's (clean) knickers. She is watching from heaven but left these to throw at Tom. Get them to him please." She said she also wants to start the hashtag #GetNanasKnickerstoTom to encourage people in the crowd to help her out.

In a Facebook post, she urged anyone in front of her to "pass them as far down the front as possible", writing: "I know if she was here, she would be swinging her knickers for Tom ... she loved him and snogged him in a phone box in Ponty when she was 14."

Kirsty said she was Helen's first grandchild, before she went on to have 10 grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren altogether. The pair had an inseparable bond, with Kirsty describing her as the "best woman who ever lived".

"My nan was a massive fan of Tom, she passed away sadly in February 2021 and it shattered my whole world," Kirsty told WalesOnline. "She had just turned 75 when she died. She was the bravest lady ever. She had lung cancer and she didn't even moan, she took it all in her stride and she passed away in my arms.

"She always called me her little princess and I'm the furthest away from a princess that you can imagine, but to my nan I was a princess and I wasn't going to