United Kingdom, April 22 -- Tori Spelling has remembered her ex-boyfriend Patrick Muldoon as the "kindest, most caring human" following his passing.

The 52-year-old actress took to social media to pay tribute to her former lover, who has passed away aged 57, and the star has recalled falling in love with Patrick and his "beautiful soul" after they first met on a blind date.

She wrote on Instagram: "This post took me a couple days. I wasn't ready to write because then it felt real. And, this shouldn't be real. @thepatrickmuldoon and I met on a blind date. Which thankfully wasn't a blind date at all because we were both on a tv series.

"Like every other girl in the world I crushed on his character Austin from Days of Our Lives.

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