Freddie Starr has died, aged 76.
The comedian has been found dead at his home in Spain, according to The Sun.
His manager confirmed the sad news in a post on his official Facebook page.
‘This is Freddie’s manager. Just to confirm Freddie has passed away. RIP to our greatest comedian of all time,’ it read.
It has been claimed his body was discovered by a carer on the floor of his flat in Costa Del Sol, but his cause of death has not yet been announced.
Police sources have said there is nothing to suggest anything suspicious about the I’m A Celebrity star’s death.
An autopsy is expected to take place tomorrow in Malaga to rule out any criminal possibilities.
A source at the equivalent of Spain’s 999 service said: ‘We responded to a call this afternoon from the carer of a 76-year-old man in the Mijas area of the Costa del Sol.
‘The woman said she had found the man and she was looking after him because he had been ill and said she thought he could be dead.’
Freddie has suffered from health problems in the past, and underwent a quadruple bypass following a heart attack, back in 2010.
After recovering from the operation, he was forced to pull out of several public appearances in 2015, due to a ‘serious lung condition’.
It was reported at the time he had been spending ‘much of his time in a wheelchair’.
Freddie came to fame in the early 1970s, thanks to TV show Opportunity Knocks, later landing a string of his own TV shows – with The Freddie Starr show among the most popular.
As well as this, he was also at the helm of game show Beat The Crusher, and took part on I’m A Celebrity…. Get Me Out Of Here! back in 2011, beaten to the jungle crown by McFly’s Dougie Poynter.
He was joined out in Australia by Anthony Cotton and Mark Wright, appearing on the ITV series a year after recovering from his heart attack.
But he was forced to leave the show early due to ill health.
After spending time working on his health, Freddie moved out Spain in 2015 – as he ‘didn’t see a pleasant future ahead of him’.
