The ex-Blue Peter star’s 40-year-old wife Gemma died in December just three days after being diagnosed with leukaemia.
In his blog called A Grief Shared, Thomas said: “I have had so many messages over the past few weeks. Ninety nine per cent of them have been quite simply lovely, but one of the recurring questions people have asked me on social media is ‘when are you going back to work?’
“However, after many, many weeks of wrestling with the question of what to do, I wanted to put it in writing what I have decided, and it’s with a heavy, but peaceful heart that I write these words: I have decided to leave Sky at the end of the season.”
Thomas has not returned to Sky – where he has worked for 13 years – since his wife’s death.
He said he will leave permanently at the end of the current football season in May.
Thomas, 45, has frequently spoken about his grief on social media, admitting that he is “really struggling”.
I’ve never ‘wallowed’ in my grief. Would never want to. Every day is painful, sometimes very very painful, but every day I get up, get on and embrace life with the boy I love beyond measure. Enjoy the pic.twitter.com/VIC4VNRi8E
— Simon Thomas (@SimonThomasSky) April 22, 2018
Speaking about his son, Thomas said: “I remember Ethan coming up to me in the lounge and through his tears he said these words, ‘Daddy, you know every weekend you go away…
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