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“I wasn’t surprised when I found out she had died“, McCann told the BBC.

The Blind Date presenter died of natural causes at her home in Marbella aged 72.

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

“It is with deep sorrow that I confirm today the passing of singer and TV personality Cilla Black”, Nick Fiveash said in an emailed statement. Her background always showed through.

Lulu tweets, “Sooo sad to hear that Cilla has died”.

She was also a bridesmaid at Cilla’s wedding to Bobby Willis in 1969. I first met her when I was a guest on one of her early TV shows, I think it was called Cilla… “British to her very core”.

ITV presenter Holly Willoughby, who now fronts the new series of Blind Date – the dating show famously presented by Cilla in the 90s – also took to Twitter to honour her “hero”.

The 72-year-old queen of song and screen – who suffered from hearing problems and arthritis – reportedly died on Sunday after flying to Spain with her son Robert. “She willed herself to die”. Everybody was like “Cilla’s here” and she said...

In its citation, BAFTA said she had hosted more than 500 television shows and made about 400 guest appearances on others, regularly drawing audiences of 18 million people. Surprise!, described Black as a “national treasure” adding that she will “always be with...

Spanish police said Sunday that the singer, who had a home in Estepona, southern Spain, died Saturday, August 1, 2015.

Black was reportedly staying in her home in Costa del Sol in the town of Estepona when the Spanish police learned that a woman named Priscilla White had died.

Cilla fully established herself as a national treasure through her rapport with everyday people, developing a comfortable bond with her viewer-ship and eventually elevating to legend status – although I’m sure she would have cringed at being referred to as such. She...

Police in the city of Malaga said Priscilla White (her real name) died in Estapona in the Costa del Sol region.

Her publicist Nick Fiveash said in a brief statement: “It is with deep sorrow that I confirm today the passing of singer and TV personality Cilla Black“.

Cilla Black, the British TV personality and singer whose career spanned more than 50 years, has died in southern Spain, as reported by local police.