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Morning everybody, welcome along to your free podcast for today. Well, there's a shock. There's new shock. Darius, Dinesh, as was. But anyway, I interviewed him, everybody interviewed him,

because he was the joke act. He was the act that they thought he wasn't going to do anything.

And of course, he did go on to do things. Very good looking boy. Very good looking boy.

And he's been married. I think he was married other once or twice.

Went to live in America. I didn't know that he was in America. He'd done various bits and pieces.

And he was delighted that Pop Idol was going to be coming back. And every paid tribute to him.

The trouble is, I always remember that one line from him.

He sat there on television and a very straight face went,

I've never felt so much love in a room before.

And we all went, that is just so sad.

So sad, that was before he met me, actually.

But, you know, he was, I mean, young. We don't know.

I mean, they don't appear to be, or there doesn't appear to be any reason why he died at all.

But we don't know until they've actually done a post-mortem. He died in his apartment in

Rochester, in Minnesota.

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