It remains one of the most widely-discussed deaths of any British celebrity ever – perhaps because of the combination of the strange way it happened and the strange person it happened to.
During the Seventies and Eighties, Rod Hull – accompanied by his violently anarchic puppet ‘Emu’ – was one of the best known comedians in Britain.
And even though by the time of his passing, in 1999, he had become less ubiquitous on TV, Hull remained a household name, so there was widespread shock when he died at the relatively young age of 63.
And this shock turned to incredulity when the manner of his
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