{"id":12811,"date":"2019-05-09T21:29:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-09T21:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/?p=12811"},"modified":"2019-05-09T21:58:13","modified_gmt":"2019-05-09T21:58:13","slug":"comedian-freddie-starr-dies-aged-76","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/comedian-freddie-starr-dies-aged-76\/","title":{"rendered":"Comedian Freddie Starr dies aged 76"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-12816 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/shutterstock_image-1024x379.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"379\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The comedian, who rose to fame after appearing on TV show Opportunity Knocks in the 1970s, has died at the age of 76.<\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-vip-slot\" class=\"gpt in-article gpt-no-ad-label\" style=\"background: #ffffff; border: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; overflow: hidden; z-index: 1; color: #141414; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; height: 8px; max-height: 8px;\" data-config=\"{&quot;componentType&quot;:&quot;gpt&quot;,&quot;targeting&quot;:{&quot;index&quot;:4,&quot;hivis&quot;:&quot;n&quot;},&quot;injectionConditions&quot;:[{&quot;condition&quot;:&quot;stopONAffiliateContent&quot;}],&quot;referenceNode&quot;:&quot;.article-body &gt; p:nth-of-type(2)&quot;,&quot;sizes&quot;:[[8,8]],&quot;hideOnSensitiveArticle&quot;:true,&quot;relativePos&quot;:&quot;after&quot;,&quot;additionalClass&quot;:&quot;in-article&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;div-gpt-ad-vip-slot&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;VIP&quot;}\" data-gpt-placeholder=\"\" data-response-start=\"3463.615000000118\" data-type=\"gpt\" data-requested=\"5064.0699999999015\" data-google-query-id=\"CIf--o64j-ICFYq43godEXUJrA\" data-timer-slot-rendered=\"11459.679999999935\" data-rendered-width=\"8\" data-rendered-height=\"8\" data-response-end=\"13751.424999999927\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/5293\/mirror.co.uk\/3am\/celebrity-news_2__container__\"><iframe id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/5293\/mirror.co.uk\/3am\/celebrity-news_2\" title=\"3rd party ad content\" name=\"google_ads_iframe_\/5293\/mirror.co.uk\/3am\/celebrity-news_2\" width=\"8px\" height=\"8px\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" data-google-container-id=\"3\" data-load-complete=\"true\" data-integralas-id-3a21844c-b80c-61d5-671c-dd0adc13ebfb=\"\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The star&#8217;s body was discovered on the floor of his Costa Del Sol apartment.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A local paramedics source said: \u201cWe received a call from the carer of a 76-year-old man around 5.10pm this afternoon local time from an address in a residential area known as Urb. Mijas Golf&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/3am\/celebrity-news\/breaking-freddie-starr-dead-comedian-15022018\">Mirror.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The comedian, who rose to fame after appearing on TV show Opportunity Knocks in the 1970s, has died at the age of 76. The star&#8217;s body was discovered on the floor of his Costa Del Sol apartment. &nbsp; A local paramedics source said: \u201cWe received a call from the carer of a 76-year-old man&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":87,"featured_media":12819,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,1],"tags":[376,71],"class_list":["post-12811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-uk-news","category-uncategorized","tag-celeb-news","tag-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/87"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12811"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12821,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12811\/revisions\/12821"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}