Rachael Bland 's widower Steve Bland wants to find another partner a year after his wife died.
BBC journalist Rachael passed away aged 40 in September last year after a battle with breast cancer, leaving behind her husband Steve and their five-year-old son Freddie.
The newsreader documented her two-year fight with cancer on her BBC podcast You, Me and the Big C.
In the same podcast, now Steve admitted he was on a quest to find love again and he has already been on two dates with the same person, yet it hasn't come to anything.
The dad-of-one estimated he has a good 40 years left in him and he admitted it would be "sad" to spend four decades on his own.
He said: "You only know about these things if you give them a crack. And if it's not right I'll soon know about it. I'll know very obviously if I'm jumping the gun, I'll know very soon if it's not the right person.
"I'm only 39. Hopefully I've got 35, 40 years left in me it would be pretty sad to have that on my own wouldn't it?"
The widower confessed dating after a spouse has died is a taboo subject and he noted it often divides people.
He added: "There's nothing that will separate a room full of widows and widowers more down the middle than the notion of dating."
Rachael was given the breast cancer diagnosis in November 2016 and by December she had begun chemotherapy.
But by May 2018, the broadcast journalist was found to have terminal cancer and she was told she had less than a year to live.
Following her terminal diagnosis, Rachael had focused her efforts into a memoir written for her son and titled For Freddie: A Mother's Final Gift To Her Son.
Rachael wrote: "My beautiful son, I so wish that I didn't have to leave you now. But believe me, I tried EVERYTHING I could to stay around for you, and for every moment I could eke out of this life."
She adds: "From the outset, it was not a fair fight. My cancer was too big, and too aggressive, and we didn't start on a level playing field."
