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He described his fellow housemates, including singer Chesney Hawkes, actors Jack P Shepherd and Patsy Palmer, and television presenters Trisha Goddard and Angelica Bell as "lovely".

The line-up for the latest series is typically varied, with singer Chesney Hawkes and TV host Trisha Goddard rubbing shoulders with Olympic champion Daley Thompson and The Only Way Is Essex's Ella Rae Wise.

Chesney Hawkes played the lead role in 1991 film Buddy's Song, but his music career overtook his acting when The One and Only - from the film's soundtrack - spent five weeks at number one and became one of the decade's most enduring pop hits.

Olive Hawkes, 60, was a married mother of two who was killed while doing her Saturday shopping in Omagh.

Melissa Hawkes, from Lincoln, has joined a new local running group, Just Run Community, in order to run with others and feel more safe.