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Vale: Keith Floyd

Flamboyant UK TV chef, Keith Floyd, has died following a heart attack at his partner's home. He was 65.

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Flamboyant UK TV chef, Keith Floyd, has died following a heart attack at his partner’s home. Paramedics had battled for 45 minutes to save him but that he could not be resuscitated. He was 65.

Floyd, much loved for his enthusiastic presenting style, natty dress sense and ever present glass of red wine, revealed in July that he had been diagnosed with bowel cancer and had five serious operations since.

He is best remembered for his television cooking programmes in the late 1980s and early 1990s, with wine destined for the pot instead drunk by the bow-tied presenter.

Floyd’s cheerful performances were a refreshing departure from the proper, controlled style then in favour at the BBC. Inspired by chaos, he would address the crew as often as the camera ,being lovably madcap. He shot to fame in the 1980s when he presented a series of hit shows starting with Floyd on Fish.

Today, chefs including Raymond Blanc, Marco Pierre White and Jamie Oliver rushed to pay their respects.

“Keith was not just one of the best, he was the best television chef. An incredible man who lived life to the full and an inspiration to me and to so many others,’ Jamie Oliver said.

Floyd also wrote dozens of cookery books and opened a chain of restaurants in Britain, France, Spain and Asia.

In 2001 he published Out of the Frying Pan: Scenes from My Life; another autobiography, Stirred But Not Stirred, is due for release next month.

Floyd is survived by a son, Patrick, from his first marriage, and a daughter Poppy, from his second.

Source: Guardian, Herald Sun

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