Tributes Poured For Beloved Cilla Black
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”.
Tributes have poured in for “national treasure” Cilla Black after the entertainer died at her home in the south of Spain.
Spanish police said they believed the star died from natural causes as figures from across the entertainment industry and politics expressed their shock on social media.
Last year, her early career was portrayed in the British miniseries Cilla, starring Sheridan Smith. Surprise!
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.
In a touching tribute to her, Sir Cliff said he was due to visit her at her house in Spain next week.
Beatles people John Lennon and Paul McCartney penned her first sole which often created a audio job that included couple of biggest singletons in 1964 and extened many years.
Cilla Black, the 1960s pop star championed by The Beatles who became one of Britain’s best-loved television presenters, died on Sunday in Spain, media reports said. She was a lovely girl who infected everyone with her great spirit. Her background always showed through.
He said: “It was hard because she couldn’t hear so it became texting but then we’d manage to get her”.
“Details of her death will be announced following the coroner’s report”.
He said he heard the news of Black’s death yesterday while out with friends. “To put this unprecedented success into perspective, it happened during a decade when achieving a Top 20 single meant that you had to sell in excess of 100,000 copies a day in the UK alone” her website adds.
“We had a week together in Barbados at the beginning of the year and I saw her on my birthday”. Bless her soul”, and actor Richard E. Grant writes, “Cilla – always inclusive, tongue in cheeky, immediate, self deprecating, a heart warming soul both on and off screen.
DJ Tony Blackburn said that “it just doesn’t seem possible that she is no longer with us”. “She was nothing like me in personality at all, but she was a good, good all-round performer”.