He talked about Angela’s big break with her husband, Ken, who used to be a Sun photographer.

WAS A GIRLS ON PAGE 3 Angela Jay passed away yesterday after a short illness with lung cancer.

In the early 1980s, she was always on the inside of The Sun.

She was also the face of the lingerie brand Gossard and did ads for boxer Henry Cooper’s Brut Aftershave.

She died in a hospital in Eastbourne, East Sussex, with her husband Ken by her side. She was 71 years old.

She was “the perfect girl next door” and a “miner’s daughter from the northern pits who dared to dream,” he said.

Ken, a 79-year-old former Sun photographer, said that Angela was seen by a modeling agency after she moved to Manchester. She was born in Sunderland.

What he said was, “She knew she couldn’t stay there and marry a miner.”

“A modeling agency saw her when she moved to Manchester.”

“Right away, she was so good at it. So young-looking.

Angela was just about ready to go. A lot of the models take two hours to get ready.

“The first time I saw her, she was wearing jeans and a dirty t-shirt, but she looked beautiful anyway.”

“That’s when I knew she was the one.”