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Girl, 13, who survived 40 DAYS in Amazon reveals mum’s haunting last moments as she lay dying from horror plane crash
HEARING her mother’s cries fade from beneath the plane wreckage, 13-year-old Lesly Jacobombaire Mucutuy knew it was now down to her to keep her younger siblings alive.
Earlier that morning, on May 1 2023, Lesly and her family had boarded a small plane from the southern Amazon town of Araracuara, Colombia.
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It was hoped the flight, heading north to the country’s Guaviare region, would lead Lesly’s family to safety.
They were fleeing their Amazon hamlet because there were narco crime groups close by.
They had threatened Magdalena’s husband Manuel Ranoque, an indigenous leader with a dubious reputation.
Yet the turn of events that were about to unfold led them into even more danger and heartbreaking tragedy.
Alongside Lesly on the small Cessna aircraft was her mother Magdalena Mucutuy, nine-year-old sister Soleiny, 11-month-old sister Cristin and four-year-old brother Tien.
About half an hour into the flight, as the small blue and white plane soared over one of the wettest, densest and remotest areas of the Amazon, its engine failed.
There was a mayday alert to air traffic control. Not long after, radio contact was lost.
When news of a crash hit the news in Colombia, everyone wanted to know whether the children and their mother had survived it.
The family’s fate would soon become a national obsession.
Lesly’s account of what happened, which formed part of Colombia’s official investigation, is retold in a new Netflix documentary, The Lost Children, via a translator.
“After the accident, I don’t know how long I was unconscious for,” Lesly says.
“When I woke up there was a lot of blood and I had a large cut on my left side, which was very painful.
“I could hear my siblings crying and crying. My mother was making noises and she stopped. Maybe if I had woken up earlier, I could have saved her.”
Magdalena’s grieving sister, Yeritza Mucutuy, tells documentary-makers: “I cried so much when I heard the news about my sister, Magdalena, and her children. They were like my children.
“She [Magadalena] was always so cheerful. It was like she didn’t even know what sadness was. She was more like a mother to me. We were very close.”
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Colombian Special Forces were deployed to the region the Cessna had last been traced to.
Members of the indigenous Huitoto group, more used to the jungle than the military, started their own search.
They combed the forest alongside Magdalena’s husband Manuel Ranoque – biological father to her two youngest children.
The inhospitable jungle terrain was almost impossible to navigate. The rain pelted down 16 hours a day.
There were no roads and the meandering rivers teemed with predators, including piranhas and anacondas.
I got all the strength I had when I dragged myself on my knees. I did that for the first 20 days. We were lost. I knew that I just had to keep going
Lesly Jacobombaire Mucutuy
The documentary retraces the mammoth search effort, using real-time footage from Amazon search teams and interviews with key members.
The hunt was made even more perilous because of the risk searchers would come face-to-face with geurilla fighters, terrorists operating in the area and financed by drug trafficking operations.
Sign of life
Sixteen days into their search, some of the Huitoto finally had a breakthrough.
They found the mangled Cessna plane, clinging vertically to the thick jungle undergrowth. Plane debris was strewn across the jungle floor.
When Special Forces were drafted in to identify the bodies they confirmed mother Magdalena, 33, was dead, alongside the pilot and another male passenger.
Yet it soon became clear that the children had miraculously escaped.
Special Forces Captain “Legionario”, tasked with retrieving the bodies, explains: “All of a sudden my sergeant said to me, ‘Captain, I’ve found a baby’s bottle.’
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“A bottle in the jungle? Unbelievable. I was shocked. After that, we came across some wild fruit, passionfruit. It had human bite marks on it. As we continued on, we found a refuge [hiding place].”
Searchers also found footprints and, later, even a soiled nappy.
The children appeared to be alive but for how long and where were they now?
‘Could barely walk’
As Lesly explains in her account of events, she kicked into survival mode after the crash.
She says: “I pulled my sister out from underneath my mother and I know we couldn’t stay and we had to abandon the plane so we could find more food and find something to drink.”
The country was gripped by news the children had survived.
Now the search took on a new lease of life, with everyone focused on finding them.
I got up and decided to leave my sisters and my brother by themselves. I started to walk away to be on my own but after 20 minutes I realised I had to go back
Lesly
The rescue mission was dubbed “Operation Hope”. The Colombian armed forces flew 150 soldiers with dogs to the area to search for the siblings.
It seemed almost inconceivable that a baby and three children could survive the elements.
Lesly soldiered on.
She says: “My leg was hurting so much and I could hardly even stand and walk at all.
“I got all the strength I had when I dragged myself on my knees.
“I did that for the first 20 days. We were lost. I knew that I just had to keep going.
“My biggest worry the whole time was keeping baby Cristin alive. I had to take care of her. I knew that she needed more food than we did.”
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It was skills that Lesly had learned growing up in her Indigenous community that was key to keeping them alive.
“My mother had taught me about fruits we could eat in the jungle,” she says.
“I made a fishing rod out of what I could find. With the rod, we were able to catch some fish. We ate the fish raw. It tasted horrible.”
Race against time
Special Forces blasted a phone recording from their grandmother out over megaphones from military helicopters.
The message was simple: “Children please, if you can hear this announcement stay where you are.”
They dispatched more than 10,000 flyers that read: “Stay close to the water. Don’t move.”
“We were trying to follow the voice that we heard but it would fade,” Lesly says. “I would try to get my sisters and brother to sleep each night.
They looked scared as if they wanted to run away from us so I raised my arms… and said ‘family’
Nicolas Ordonez, volunteer rescuer
“I didn’t really sleep. One night in the jungle we almost sat on a snake. I was able to kill it with a stick.
“My brother became so weak that he could no longer stand on his own anymore. One day I dreamt that they would never find us.
“My heart was beating fast and I struggled so hard to breathe.
“I got up and decided to leave my sisters and my brother by themselves. I started to walk away to be on my own but after 20 minutes I realised I had to go back.
“I had to protect my brother and my sisters. Cristin and Tien were both very close to dying.”
Emaciated but breathing
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Several weeks into the rescue the military called off the search.
The search area had narrowed but so had the hopes the children had survived.
The indigenous volunteers prepared rituals and prayed for some divine intervention.
Finally, those prayers were answered – 40 days in, a small group of indigenous volunteers, finally found the children.
Traipsing through the unforgiving terrain, volunteer Nicolas Ordonez, was the first to greet them.
He says: “I lifted up my head to see where the companions were and then I saw the kids.
“They looked scared as if they wanted to run away from us so I raised my arms… and said ‘family’.”
Close to death, the children were a shell of their former selves. They were barely able to move, emaciated… but they were still breathing.
The world’s deadliest aircraft incidents
HERE we reveal the five deadliest airplane incidents and accidents:
5) The Ermenonville air disaster – 346 deaths
Turkish Airlines Flight 981 crashed into the Ermenonville Forrest, nine miles outside of Paris, when an incorrectly secured cargo door burst open and broke off. It caused such an explosive decompression that cables vital for controlling the aircraft were severed and the plane plummeted. All 346 passengers and 11 crew died on the day of the tragedy – March 3, 1974.
4) Saudi Flight 763 & Kazakhstan Airlines Flight 1907 – 349 deaths
The world’s deadliest mid-air collision occurred on November 12, 1996 – and killed everyone aboard both planes. It was ruled the Khazak plane’s crew caused the horror crash after failing to maintain the correct altitude. They attributed it to the crew’s poor English language skills, meaning they struggled to understand directions from air traffic control, and three separate failures in cockpit training procedures.
3) Japan Air Lines Flight 123 – 520 deaths
Just 12 minutes into the flight between Tokyo and Osaka, Japan, the Boeing 747SR-46 began to suffer problems. After a further 32 minutes, it crashed into Mount Takamaghara after the flight controls were disabled. The disaster on August 12, 1985, initially had up to 50 survivors but many died while awaiting rescue due to serious injuries. The plane had structural failure caused by a faulty repair seven years earlier, which led to rapid decompression that ripped off part of the tail.
2) The Tenerife airport disaster – 583 deaths
At Tenerife North Airport, a terrifying collision occurred that claimed the lives of passengers on two Boeing 747s on March 27, 1977. KLM Flight 4805 collided with Pan Am Flight 1736 when it began its takeoff run in heavy fog, unaware the other plane was still on the runway. The impact and resulting fire killed everyone aboard the flights apart from 61 survivors.
1) The 9/11 terrorist attack – 2,700 deaths
On Sept 11, 2001, five Al Queda hijackers took over American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175. The planes were then flown into the World Trade Centre, known as the Twin Towers, in New York City. The deaths comprise both those on board the two planes and those on the ground.
Lesly says: “When I saw the man, I collapsed. I felt very good. I no longer had to keep my brother and sisters alive. They were now safe.”
The children were air-lifted to safety.
Yet, for some, it also brought the indigenous people and military closer – two parties who for decades had fought one another – together for the greater good.
For many, like Nicolas, the rescue had a profound effect on them.
He says: “The process of finding the children made me feel like I had also found myself in the process. In a way, I was rescued along with the children.”
The Lost Children is available on Netflix from November 14
RYAN and Hannah were two of the most controversial contestants on the 2024 series of Married at First Sight (MAFS).
Rumours about a potential romance between the two swirled when they made a dramatic arrival as a couple at the MAFS reunion. But are they still together?
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Marital feuds
Both Hannah and Ryan were unlucky-in-love on the dating show, with their relationships with Stephen and Sionainn collapsing on screen.
However, fans were shocked when it was revealed that Hannah and Ryan had been flirting off-camera and that they may have even shared a kiss.
Hannah had previously shocked fans when she kissed another bachelor named Orson.
Stephen later confessed that he had his eye on Ryan’s partner Sionainn, which added another layer to the already confusing love quadrangle.
Bombshell coupling
After they left the show, rumours began to fly which suggested that Ryan and Hannah were still together.
They later added fuel to the fire when they showed up to the reunion as a couple.
A TV source told the Daily Mail: “The entire cast was left open mouthed when Hannah walked into the reunion hand in hand with Ryan.
“She had made a big point about her friendliness being taken the wrong way and how the female members of the group had misjudged her intentions.
“But after kissing Orson in secret and growing close to Ryan off camera, it seems some of the suspicions from her co-stars were accurate.”
Relationship revelation
Despite their bombshell appearance as a couple at the MAFS reunion, Hannah revealed on Instagram that they are just friends.
She said: “Me & Ryan built a really lovely friendship when we both got out of the experiment & that is all it has ever been!
“We have never dated and we have never been in a relationship.
If anybody actually took a minute to ask us we would have both happily confirmed that but no!
Instead it was playground whispers, rumours & a public ambush based off of hearsay YET again!
She continued: “All the other cast built friendships (boys and girls) & were chatting, meeting up, enjoying a little WhatsApp group that we were left out of and as always it was more than ok for everybody else to get friendly-but of course not for me!”
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#Shoegate
Hannah also decided to clear up the infamous events of “#shoegate”, which reportedly involved the TV star giving Ryan a “foot massage”.
She took to Instagram to set the record straight.
Hannah posted: “#SHOEGATE. There is only one story here and it’s the truth.
“The truth is this – the entire cast were in a room together the morning after the commitment ceremony.
All of us.
Nobody’s apartment.
“I never stepped foot (no pun intended) in Ryan & Sionainn’s apartment the entire time I was on the experiment.”
Hannah continued by saying that she was confused about whether Ryan was wearing shoes or slippers.
She explained that she then asked him about the shoes and whether or not they had “fluff” inside them.
Hannah continued: “Ryan responded by pulling his foot out of said shoe and saying ‘here have a look’ I then proceeded to touch said shoe and noticed that in fact there was fluff in his shoe confirming they were in fact slippers.
“Me and Ryan politely smiled at each other as he popped his foot back into his slipper and we all went about our day.
“The end.”
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Full House star Dave Coulier has revealed that he has been diagnosed with a “very aggressive” form of stage 3 non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
The 65-year-old actor, who starred as Joey Gladstone on the hit ABC sitcom, shared the news during an appearance on the Today show on Wednesday (November 13).
Coulier said he first discovered symptoms several months ago when he got a cold and then found a large lump on his groin.
“It swelled up immediately,” he recalled. “I thought, ‘Wow, I’m either really sick, or my body’s really reacting to something.’”
He visited the doctor, who shared the shocking diagnosis with him just five weeks ago.
“The first thing I said to them was, ‘Wait a minute – cancer?’” he said. “[I was] feeling like I got punched in the stomach because it never happens to you. You always hear about it happening to someone else.”
Non-Hodgkins lymphoma is a form of cancer that affects the white blood cells, causing them to grow abnormally and can form tumors throughout the body, according to the Mayo Clinic. Stage 3 typically means that the cancer is large and may have spread to surrounding tissues or lymph nodes.
Coulier said he started undergoing rounds of chemotherapy two weeks ago. He shared that he has six rounds of chemo every three weeks and is expected to wrap up treatment by February.
“You hear chemo, and it scares the daylights out of you,” he said. “The first round was pretty intense because you don’t know what to expect. You don’t know how you’re going to feel. Is this going to hit me immediately? Is it going to be devastating? Am I going to walk out of here?”
Describing treatment as “a bit of a roller coaster,” he said: “There [are] days where I feel unbelievable. Then there’s other days where… I’m just going to lay down and let this be what it’s going to be.
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“Some days are nauseous and dizzy, and then there’s other days where the steroids kick in, and I feel like I have a ton of energy,” he added. “I actually skated yesterday with some friends here in Detroit. We just went and skated around and shot pucks, and it was wonderful just to be out there doing something that I love and just trying to stay focused on all the great stuff that I have in my life.”
Coulier praised his wife, Melissa Bring Coulier, for her support, sharing that she “organized [his] entire life, from nutrition to the doctor’s appointments to pills.”
“She’s got stuff color-coded. It’s pretty great,” he said.
Bring Coulier is Coulier’s second wife, whom he married in 2014. He was previously married to actor and model Jayne Modean, with whom he shares 33-year-old son Luc.
Coulier is best known for his role as Joey on Full House. He featured in every episode of the eight-season sitcom, which aired from 1987 to 1995. He later reprised his role for the Fuller House spin-off, which ran from 2016 to 2020.
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Sam Thompson’s heartache as he was forced to leave sister Louise’s hospital bedside to fly out to I’m A Celebrity
SAM Thompson was forced to leave his sister Louise’s hospital bedside to fly out to I’m A Celebrity.
The 32-year-old jetted to Australia this week as he prepares to co-host a new spin-off series with Joel Dommett and Capital radio host Kemi Rodgers.
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Sam – who won I’m A Celeb last year – has committed to relaunching Ant McPartlin and Dec Donnelly’s ITV2 sister show.
However, nine days ago his best pal and sibling Louise was rushed in for emergency surgery after suffering excruciating pain in her abdomen.
It means Sam will spend the next four weeks 10,000 miles away from Louise, who he lives next door to.
Breaking her silence on the secret stint in hospital, Louise said: “It’s World kindness day. The world feels like it’s been a bit unkind to me again.
“But today is a new day. And that hopefully means home.”
“I really hate to say it but I’ve been back in hospital feeling very poorly (I feel like the word ‘poorly’ warrants the label of an Onomatopoeia – everything about it resembles elderly, frail illnessy stuff). As I say it I feel like a grandma blowing out bubbles for words. It looks and sounds sick. Like I did. Even though I’m also confusingly only 34 and incredibly strong. Mentally and physically STRONG. If I do say so myself.
“I’m almost embarrassed at this point. BUT there is light. There have been beacons of kindness EVERYWHERE.”
“It’s been needed because oh goodness me it’s been quite scary seeing my body laden with so many foreign objects. I’m amazed I even managed to move with all that in at one point.
“I literally had a tail dangling out of me. Stitched in. In fact I felt like an octopus with multiple legs or tubes (turns out a cannula with different entry points is called an octopus too). Great minds. Or a great subconscious mind and memory of mine.
“Ahhh the joy of heavy heavy opioids for getting me through the worst of it. Thank goodness for poppies. Thank goodness for science. Thank goodness for modern medicine.”
Sam had his own dash to see medics before his flight – as he begged doctors for sleeping pills.
Speaking on his Staying Relevant podcast, Sam said: “The timings are quite awkward because obviously we are live in UK time.
“So we go to bed at 4pm every day in Australia and wake up at midnight.
“Which is going to be wild.”
His podcast co-host Pete Wicks agreed and added: “Yeah you’re going to be all over the shop, and you don’t cope well with change,” as Sam agreed: “I really don’t.”
Pete – who is competing on Strictly this year – continued: “You don’t cope well with change and what Sam said to me when he told me this last week is ‘I’ve just been to the doctor and I’ve got 24 sleeping pills.’”
Sam giggled and said: “Just in case.”
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The Penguin is one of the best TV shows of the year – and it has outrageously impressive stats to back it up.
When the spin-off to Matt Reeves’ The Batman was first announced, the news was met with an unenthusiastic response considering superhero off-shoots have become dime a dozen in recent years.
Since WandaVision was released in March 2021, Marvel has launched 10 new TV shows, with another seven on the way, and DC’s announcement of The Penguin in September 2021, seven months before The Batman was released, felt like another crafty way of luring in TV viewers.
However, under the guidance of showrunner Lauren LeFranc, The Penguin ended its eight-episode run as one of the most enticing shows of the year – a gangster epic that just happens to be set in the comic book world of Gotham.
Due to the excitable word-of-mouth that’s been heaped upon the series since its premiere on 19 September, it has experienced something rare in today’s TV age: every new episode of the series saw a single-day viewership increase, with more and more people switching on to the show as the recommendations grew in size.
While less than one million people tuned in for the first episode on the night it was released, each instalment that followed saw a substantial increase, with the finale being watched by 2.1 million people.
Variety reports that, when the stats include those who have watched the series since the premiere was released, it has now amassed ratings of almost 17 million.
Perhaps aiding this is the show’s extremely rare ratings on review aggregator sites like Rotten Tomatoes and IMDb.
On Rotten Tomatoes, every single episode of The Penguin has a perfect score of 100 per cent, while on IMDb, not one episode has an average rating that falls under eight out of 10. In fact, the lowest episode score the series receives is 8.5, with the finale receiving 9.6.
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Farrell has been praised for his performance as Oz Cobb but the show features a standout supporting turn from Cristin Milioti, whose role as Sofia Falcone has left many predicting awards success for the Palm Springs and Black Mirror actor.
Meanwhile, Rhenzy Feliz and Deirdre O’Connell are also receiving high praise for their roles as Cobb’s sidekick Victor and mother Francis, respectively.
Now the show is over, the question is: will there be a second season? While Farrell has confirmed he will don the prosthetics once again for appearances in the next two Batman films, starring Robert Pattinson and Zoë Kravitz, he has also teased a possible follow-up for the series.
He told The Hollywood Reporter: “If there’s a great idea [for season two], and the writing was really muscular and as strong or stronger on the page than it was the first season, of course I would do it.”
The Penguin is available to stream on NOW.
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Monty Don reveals health battle that affects millions – and how he overcomes it with simple exercise
TV GARDENING guru Monty Don has revealed his health battle with a condition that affects millions – and how he is tackling it with a simple exercise.
The Gardeners World star suffers from Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) which means for a quarter of the year, a person experiences low mood, a lack of energy and feelings of dispair.
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It can affect anyone at any time of the year but it afflicts Monty between November and mid-February.
Monty finds that using a light box and taking antidepressants has helped but he really finds it best to get as much natural light as possible to combats his blues.
He said: “For me, and I think for most people, experiencing weather, rain, wind, sun, cold, whatever it is, is very helpful and restorative.
“Go out and get thoroughly drenched or cold and come inside and warm up.
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“Or feel the wind on your face or the sunshine on your face. Listen to the birds, notice the sound of the wind in the tree or kick your feet through leaves, that engagement is very beneficial.”
Taking regular holidays also helps as he revealed On The Travel Diaries podcast, he regularly flocks to sunnier climes: “In the past 20 years I’ve done a lot of travelling in winter so I get my hit of winter sun.
“In the winter I’ve been to South Africa four times, I’ve been to India three or four times, I’ve been to Japan, Australia, I’ve been to the southern hemisphere and I get sun, that sort of recharges the batteries.
“A few weeks of that has a profound effect. If you can afford it or organise it that really makes a difference.”
Monty has also suffered with other ailments due to his gardening activities such as weak knees and finds that exercising keeps him fighting fit.
Gardeners World is a BBC 2 favourite which aired from 2003 to 2008, and made a return in 2011.
The TV star began his career on (then) Granada’s This Morning and has presented Real Gardens, Fork to Fork and Lost Gardens and Around the World in 80 Gardens.
On Gardeners World he is famous for saying: “It’s been a pretty miserable winter, but there’s a feeling of spring in the air…”
Even thought the winter months are upon us, the advice for combatting seasonal blues and SAD may help viewers with their own health troubles.
Seasonal Affective Disorder
SAD symptoms
The NHS says that if you experience any of the following…
- a persistent low mood
- a loss of pleasure or interest in normal everyday activities
- irritability
- feelings of despair, guilt and worthlessness
- feeling lethargic (lacking in energy) and sleepy during the day
- sleeping for longer than normal and finding it hard to get up in the morning
- craving carbohydrates and gaining weight
- difficulty concentrating
- decreased sex drive
Seek help from their GP.
Gardeners World is available to stream on BBCiPlayer while Monty Don‘s Italian and French Gardens is available on Netflix.
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The actor Timothy West, who was married to fellow star Prunella Scales for 61 years, has died aged 90, his family have confirmed.
A statement shared by his children, Juliet, Samuel and Joseph West read: “After a long and extraordinary life on and off the stage, our darling father Timothy West died peacefully in his sleep yesterday evening. He was 90 years old.
“Tim was with friends and family at the end. He leaves his wife Prunella Scales, to whom he was married for 61 years, a sister, a daughter, two sons, seven grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. All of us will miss him terribly.
“We would like to thank the incredible NHS staff at St George’s Hospital, Tooting and at Avery Wandsworth for their loving care during his last days.”
A frequent star of the stage, having appeared in numerous productions of Macbeth, King Lear and The Master Builder, West was perhaps best known to television audiences for his roles as Eric Babbage in Coronation Street, which he played in 2013, and for Stan Carter, who he played in EastEnders between 2014 and 2015.
Numerous tributes have already been paid to West on social media following the news of his death.
Broadcaster Piers Morgan wrote: “A wonderful actor and delightful man. My Life Stories interview with him, as the love of his life Prunella Scales sat in the audience, was so moving. They were married 61yrs, and his devotion to her after she developed Alzheimer’s was profoundly touching.”
Director and actor Alice Lowe said: “[I] first encountered Timothy West in his support of the Scarborough @NSDFest . He was wonderful. An encouraging, positive, generous presence in what he knew can be a tough unrelenting industry, but he gave young people the self belief to carry on with it. Kindness and faith in joy.”
James Dreyfus wrote: “Marvellous actor. A constant in many of our lives. He shall be much missed. My thoughts with his family.”
Former MP Giles Watling said: “I am lucky to have known this amazing actor and thoroughly nice chap. A great loss. Thoughts go to the family.”
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The Royal Shakespeare Company added: “We are deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Timothy West We would like to extend our heartfelt sympathies to Timothy’s family and friends – in particular to his wife Prunella and children, including Samuel, who is an Associate Artist and will play Malvolio in Twelfth Night.”
During his career, West also played Winston Churchill three times, in Churchill and the Generals (1979), The Last Bastion (1984), and Hiroshima (1995).
In Brass, he played ruthless self-made businessman Bradley Hardacre from 1982 to 1984 before returning for a third series in 1990, while in Not Going Out, he played Geoffrey, the father of Lucy Adams (Sally Bretton).
In 2019, the Bradford-born actor played Private Godfrey in Dad’s Army: The Lost Episodes, a recreation of three missing episodes of the BBC comedy Dad’s Army.
Meanwhile, in the world of film, West starred in Nicholas and Alexandra (1971), The Day of the Jackal (1973), Cry Freedom (1987) and Luc Besson’s 1999 historical epic The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc.
West’s final acting credit was as Charles Usher in Sister Boniface Mysteries in 2023.
West and Scales, 92, who played Sybil Fawlty in the hit BBC sitcom Fawlty Towers, appeared together in the documentary series Great Canal Journeys between 2014 and 2021.
The couple married in 1963, and have two sons, actor Samuel West, and Joseph West.
West was also married to actor Jacqueline Boyer from 1956 to 1961, and they had a daughter, Juliet West.
Additional reporting by PA.
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