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Comedian and I'm A Celebrity star Freddie Starr has died.

The lead singer of the pop group the Midniters was found dead at his Spanish home at the age of 76.

His body was found on the floor of his apartment in the Costa Del Sol, the Mirror reports.

The star first found fame in the early 1970s after he appeared on TV show Opportunity Knocks and the Royal Variety Performance.

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He also hosted his own programme, The Freddie Starr Show and An Audience with Freddie Starr.

In 2011 Starr appeared on I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here!, only one year after recovering from quadruple bypass surgery following a heart attack.

The comedian also became known for a story that appeared in The Sun in 1986 with the headline 'Freddie Starr ate my hamster'.

It was alleged that he had put a friend's hamster between two slices of bread and ate it when his request for a sandwich was refused.

But he denied the clam, and wrote in his autobiography: "I have never eaten or even nibbled a live hamster, gerbil, guinea pig, mouse, shrew, vole or any other small mammal".

In 2015 Starr lost a high-profile libel court case against a woman who had accused him of groping her when she was 15 behind the scenes of the Clunk link TV show.

It was reported that he bought a flat in Costa Del Sol the following year after facing a substantial legal bill.