Comedian Freddie Starr has died.
According to reports the 76-year-old was found dead in his home on the Costa Del Sol.
Starr, born Frederick Leslie Fowell, was a major figure on British television in the 1970s who made a number of hit series. He broke through on talent show Opportunity Knocks and then soundalikes package show Who Do You Do? and was famous initially for his impressions of stars such as Mick Jagger, Max Wall and Norman Wisdom and then later for his outrageous stunts, such as pretending to throw live maggots at his celebrity audience on ITV's An Audience With Feddie Starr.
He was also the subject of the legendary tabloid headline, Freddie Starr Ate My Hamster, which appeared in The Sun.
He appeared on I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here in 2011.
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