EDDIE Large’s widow has recalled her final conversation with the stand-up, who died after contracting coronavirus while in hospital.

Patsy McGinnis, who married the comedian in 1983, broke down in tears as she appeared on Good Morning Britain alongside their son Ryan and Large’s long-term stage partner Syd Little.

The Little And Large star died last week aged 78 after catching the virus while being treated for heart failure in hospital.

McGinnis told co-hosts Piers Morgan and Susanna Reid: “I wanted to talk to him longer but he said, ‘Darling, I am going to have to go now’.

“I said, ‘Don’t worry, love – I will speak to you in the morning’ but that wasn’t to be as in the early hours of the morning – at about four o’clock – they rang to say he had passed away and we couldn’t be with him.”