Sir Ken Dodd has died at the age of 90, his publicist has confirmed. The comedian had recently been cared for by medical professionals after suffering a chest infection. On Friday he married his partner of 40 years, Anne Jones.
Sir Ken Dodd secretly married his partner of 40 years Anne Jones just two days before he passed away. Ken and Anne married on Friday 9 March, two weeks after Ken was discharged from Liverpool Heart and Chest hospital following six weeks of treatment for a severe chest infection. His publicist Robert Holmes said: ‘He asked Anne if she wanted to marry. They got the registrar and were married in the house on Friday. ‘He died two days later on Mother’s Day. Anne is obviously very upset. They had been together for 40 years. It’s a love story to beat them all.’
Last year he was knighted for his charity work and his outstanding career in entertainment which has lasted for six decades. Born in Knotty Ash, Liverpool, Lancashire, on November 8 1927, it was around the age of 14 he began to discover a love of entertaining after seeing an advertisement in a comic book which read: ‘Fool your teachers, amaze your friends—send 6d in stamps and become a ventriloquist!’.