THE widow of the late Robin Gibb has praised a relative who is running 200 miles in the Bee Gees singer’s memory.

Mr Gibb’s widow Dwina waved William Graydon off as his epic journey began on Saturday morning.

The 60-year-old said: “It’s wonderful. It’s great that he has the nerve to do it.

“It’s nice when a member of the family decides to do something special and it is very close to his heart.

“He (Robin) would have been waving him off as well.

“He always liked something funny.”

She said since her husband died of cancer aged 62 in May last year she had been comforted by “thousands” of letters of support from “all over the world”.

She said: “I just felt like I was never alone mourning. The whole world mourned with me.”

Mr Graydon, 24, is the son of the music legend’s manager Ken Graydon and he grew up in the gatehouse of Mr Gibb’s Priest End home.

He is running from the popstar’s family home in Thame to his birthplace in the Isle of Man over seven days – dressed only in a pair of pink Y-fronts.

Mrs Gibb is Ken Graydon’s cousin.

Mr Graydon is hoping to raise £300,000 and has received donations totalling more than £3,500 so far.

He is collecting cash for Mr Gibb’s hospice charity Rebecca House and soldiers’ charity Coming Home. The former pupil at Magdalen College School, Oxford, is also raising money for the Royal Marsden Cancer Charity after Oxford friend Charlie Sain-Lay-Berry-Gray, 24, died of cancer this year.

Mr Graydon, of Moorend Lane, Thame, said: “I have lived here all my life, he (Robin Gibb) was like a second dad really.

“He was always doing good so I wanted to do good on a scale I could.”

Ken Graydon, 62, said the challenge his son was attempting was “amazing”, adding; “Robin really was a fighter.

“When he was ill he fought all the way.”

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