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Cilla Black “willed herself to die”, a childhood friend has said.

She became a British television fixture as the cheeky, cheery host of 1983 game show Blind Date and heartwarming-reunion program Surprise Surprise (between 1984 and 2001).

“She hadn’t been here since last year, but she arrived on Friday and on Saturday she died”. I thought she was well.

She was married for 30 years to Willis until he died in 1999 of lung cancer.

As well as emotional reunions of long-lost relatives, the show featured “Cillagrams”, in which she again turned up at a location unannounced, this time marking some special occasion with a song. She’s like my sister, ‘ he said. “She will be missed”.

“What’s need to be determined now is why she fell and whether it was indeed to do with the sudden change in temperature and the effect that had on her, which seems the most likely scenario at the moment, or whether something else triggered the collapse”.

Yeah, wheel out the people who say she was a national treasure.

“We are still awaiting autopsy results but everything at this stage is pointing towards her death being the result of natural causes”.

But she was left in tears when she heard the news of her sudden death as she made her way home from a wedding in Perth on Sunday.

Cilla Black’s doting son Robert discovered the star’s body after smashing his way into her bedroom when she failed to rise from an afternoon siesta.

Cilla was born Priscilla Maria Veronica White on May 27, 1943 in Liverpool, where she grew up.

1964: Fortunately, her second single, the Burt Bacharach-Hal David composition Anyone Who Had A Heart, shot to Number One and became the biggest-selling single by a female artist in the history of British popular music.

“I was due to visit her at her home in Spain this week…” “I still love (late husband) Bobby” she said.

Paul McCartney led the tributes, saying Black was “a lovely girl who infected everyone with her great spirit”.

She worked hard. The Beatles loved her and Brian Epstein knew the cloakroom girl from the Cavern had the X-factor even back in the early-1960s.

“She had a fine distinctive voice and was always a bit of a laugh”.

“She had been coming here for many years and loved Spain“.

Beatles stars Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr have also paid tribute to Black. “She was a good friend, we will all miss her. Peace to Cilla, peace and love to the family, R&B”. She also recorded her own versions of “Yesterday”, “For No One”, “Across the Universe”, “The Long and Winding Road” and other Beatles originals.

Now a photo shows the star smiling and looking happy as she landed at Malaga Airport on Friday, stopping to have a photo taken with fans all dressed up for a hen party.