Tom Jones Steps Out After Betrayed Wife’s Death

The National ENQUIRER caught Tom Jones — still wearing his wedding ring — walking along the beach in Santa Monica, Calif., as he prepares for new concert dates after his longtime wife's sudden death. Tom was out with his son (and longtime manager) Mark Woodward for the first time since the death of his wife Linda. His loyal wife of 59 years passed away from cancer in their Los Angeles home on April 10.

The heartbroken star — who had once considered retiring if Linda ever died — had also just announced his first concert dates in the wake of his wife's death. It will be his first shows as a single man after decades of both stardom and philandering!

Linda was a heavy smoker who had suffered two earlier cancer battles, as Tom revealed in his 2015 autobiography. The book spent less time on how his wife had suffered silently as her husband enjoyed constant affairs during their 59-year-marriage!

The star still constantly boasted of his "rock-solid" marriage. Tom didn't slow down his extramarital affairs as his career continued into the 1980s, either . It didn't matter that son Mark had come along on tours for several years — and began serving as his manager in 1986!

But the singer's nine new concert dates in the UK and Norway through June are a relief to longtime fans — who remembered that Tom had once warned his son that he might retire if his mother ever died.

Tom recalled telling Mark during an earlier health crisis for his wife: "If your mother doesn't make it, I don't know whether I can sing. A lot of the songs that I do, I think of her — so it would be hard if she wasn't there!"