With an IQ of 176, Caroline Aherne was a smart as a whip and an undeniable comedy genius. And her death from lung cancer on July 2, 2016, aged just 52 left family, friends and fans reeling - especially as few had realised how sick she really was.
She hadn't been in a hospice or a hospital, and those nearest to her were said to have been too overcome to even plan the funeral. “It was too quick, we didn’t expect her to go.
She was just at home. She left on her own,” a relative said. For her Royle Family dad, Ricky Tomlinson, her seemingly sudden passing alone in her bungalow in Timperley, Cheshire, came as 'the biggest shock in the world'. "It’s knocked me for six," he said, revealing how her brother Patrick and long-term collaborator Craig
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