MTV host Sam Sarpong died after jumping from a bridge in LA in October

June Sarpong today broke down on live television as she opened up about her 'kind' brother who died last year after falling from a bridge. 

Sam, a Tommy Hilfiger model famed for hosting on MTV, jumped from the bridge in Los Angeles in October after family and police spent seven hours trying to talk him down.

Today, Ms Sarpong appeared on Loose Women where she publicly paid tribute to her brother for the first time.

But the emotion was clearly too much for Ms Sarpong. Revealing how 2015 was the worst year of her family's lives, she broke down in tears, adding: 'The pain doesn't go away'. 

The former T4 presenter said: 'It’s horrible, I wouldn’t wish this on anyone. It’s been such a tough time for my family and I. 2015 was the worst year of our lives - nobody could ever have predicted this.

'I have experienced emotions which I did not even know were humanely possible.' 

Sam, 40, who co-hosted Yo Momma, lived in Pasadena, California where he appeared in shows for top designers such as Gucci and Versace.

  Ms Sarpong, who was awarded an OBE, said he appeared to have a happy life and there were no signs the tragedy was about to unfold.

'We were shell shocked because there were no signs. There was nothing that could lead anybody to believe that this was even possible,' she said. 

'He wasn’t on medication, he doesn't even drink. All we know that on the day it happened, something just took over his mind.

'So the Sammy that we knew was not that boy on the bridge, the person that jumped off the bridge was not the man that we had loved for over 40 years. 

'It was a moment of mad, Something just went off and he lost complete control over his mind.' 

Breaking down, she then described how her brother was her 'best friend'. 

After his death, friends described him as being 'the life of the party', someone who loved life and would face every day with 'a smile on his face.' 

'He was such a kind human being who just loved people and who treated everybody the same and was the life and soul of the party and whenever you had a problem he was the guy you turn to,' she told fellow panellists. 

'The thing that really sort of brought it home to us, just how loved he was, was at his memorial, over 2000 people turned up to celebrate his life.'