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British celebrity Freddie Starr "definitely dead"
Freddie Starr, a stalwart of British light entertainment most famous for a fabricated news story alleging he ate a hamster and lately implicated in historical sexual abuse scandals, was reportedly found dead today at his apartment in Spain. He is "definitely" dead, according to a person who has seen the body. The Guardian reports:
Read the restAt the height of his fame, Starr was known by fans for his eccentric and often unpredictable behaviour.
In 1986 he was famously at the centre of one of the best-known newspaper headlines when The Sun splashed with: Freddie Starr ate my hamster.
The story claimed Starr placed the creature between two slices of bread and ate it at a friends home after returning from a performance in Manchester. But in his 2001 autobiography Unwrapped, Starr said the incident never took place.
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