Cilla Black

CILLA BLACK tragically died on August 1, 2015. Her close friend later revealed he felt she had 'willed' herself to die in the months leading up to her death ...

He added: "Her mother was ill for two years and she had the same complaint and she said she was never going to linger like that." From first meeting her as a cloakroom girl at the Cavern in Liverpool, to seeing her many times since, she always had a fun loving dignity that made her a great pleasure to be around She had a fine distinctive voice and was always a bit of a laugh. She knew something we didn't. She knew she was going to die and she said she wasn't going to linger like her mother." I don't know what her mother died of but it seemed she associated it with her mother's death and she just knew it was going to happen." She also had her own variety show, titled Cilla. But in her final years of life, she was not happy. On top of her singing career - of which she was known for the massive track Anyone Who Had a Heart - she was also the main attraction of the reality show Blind Date which she hosted.