Husband of pregnant actress Natascha McElhone is found dead on his doorstep
One of Britain’s top cosmetic surgeons and the husband of actress Natascha McElhone has died suddenly aged 42.
Martin Kelly was found slumped on the doorstep of the couple’s £2.5m home in London late last night by a fellow doctor. It is thought he might have had a heart attack.
Californication star Ms McElhone, who is pregnant with the couple’s third child, is rushing back to Britain from the U.S. where she had been filming.
Ms McElhone, 36, has starred in films including Solaris and Ronin and more recently in the television series Californication with David Duchovny.
The couple already have two young children, Theodore, eight, and Otis, five. Friends said that the actress is “devastated”.
Her husband was known as the “king of rhinoplasty” in surgical circles but was also an avid charity worker with his own foundation to help children born with deformities.
Ms McElhone’s stepfather, the media pundit Roy Greenslade, who married her mother Noreen in 1984, said the family were in a state of shock.
He said: “It’s still a mystery about the death. It’s so unexpected. Such a fit, handsome, fighting fit young man of 42. So we are in a bit of a terrible state to be honest.
“I obviously will be in touch with Martin’s closest medical colleagues who were dealing with the crisis and will try and find out what’s going on.
“It’s just completely baffling. A medical colleague was on hand, so he had the best possible chance but was just unable to revive him.
“There was no indication, not in the least. He was a great rider, a great skier, and he was just a fit, fit, kind of chap.”
Mr Greenslade said he and his wife, who live in Ireland, would be travelling to London to be with the rest of the family.
He revealed Mr Kelly and his step-daughter were about to celebrate their tenth wedding anniversary and had enjoyed a “fairytale” relationship.
”He was a truly magnificent man as a surgeon, as a father and as a husband,” he said.
“As well as being a brilliant doctor, he painted, wrote his own music as well as being a great sportsman. He was a true Renaissance man.”
