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We’ve tragic information to report out of London right this moment:
Ben Duncan, the UK actuality star and longtime good friend of Prince William and Kate Middleton, has handed away.
He was simply 45 years previous.
Information of Duncan’s passing comes courtesy of a press release from the London police.
London police affirm Ben Duncan’s explanation for loss of life
In response to a press release issued to the Every day Mail, Duncan “fell about 100 ft off a rooftop bar (on the seventh ground) at London’s Trafalgar St. James Resort.”
A spokesperson says that “officers responded to issues for a person on the roof of a constructing in Cockspur Avenue, Westminster.”
“The person sadly fell from peak. Regardless of one of the best efforts from the London Ambulance service, he was sadly pronounced useless on the scene,” the assertion added. “His loss of life is surprising however non-suspicious.”
In a separate assertion, an insider at a London ambulance service spoke of the efforts to save lots of Duncan’s life.
“’We despatched sources to the scene, together with an ambulance crew, an incident response officer, paramedics in quick response automobiles and paramedics from our hazardous space response staff,” the insider advised the Mail.
“We additionally dispatched a trauma staff in a automotive from London’s Air Ambulance. Very sadly, regardless of one of the best efforts of our crews, a person was pronounced useless on the scene.”
An acquaintance of the longer term king and queen
Duncan competed on the UK model of Massive Brother in 2010. He went on to look on a number of extra actuality exhibits, together with Come Dine With Me, Ladette to Girl, and Celeb Coach Journey.
However he’s maybe greatest recognized for the truth that he attended the College of St Andrews concurrently William and Kate.
“As a result of we’d had Will and Kate in our midst we had royal safety officers swarming the place,” he recalled in a 2010 interview (by way of Us Weekly). “We knew that they’d hit it off and we knew that one thing was occurring, however they have been simply left alone to get on with it.”
Duncan was additionally current on the well-known pupil trend present the place Hate first caught William’s eye.
“It was the tip of their first 12 months. I used to be there, and in particular person there have been a number of enticing women,” he recalled. “She was in a really daring gown, in a sheer stocking-like gown. He was sitting entrance row and his eyes have been like stalks.”
Duncan added, “She brushed by him on the way in which to the catwalk and issues have been by no means the identical once more — the entire historical past of the monarchy had been altered.”
Neither William nor Kate has publicly commented on their former schoolmate’s passing.
Our ideas exit to Ben Duncan’s family members throughout this enormously tough time.
