Former child star Rory Callum Sykes dies in Los Angeles wildfires, aged 32

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Kiddy Kapers was at his home in Malibu on Wednesday (January 8) when he died. He was 32 years old.The news was confirmed by his mother Shelley Sykes, who starred alongside him in the reality show. “It is with great sadness that I have to announce the death of my beautiful son @RorySykes to the Malibu fires yesterday,” she wrote on X.It is with great sadness that I have to announce the death of my beautiful son @Rorysykes to the Malibu fires yesterday.

I’m totally heart broken. British born Australian living in America, a wonderful son, a gift born on mine & his grandmas birthday 29 July 92, Rory Callum… pic.twitter.com/X77xyk83gx— Shelley Sykes (@shelleysykes) January 9, 2025Sykes, who was born blind and with cerebral palsy, had gained prominence in recent years as a video game streamer and had recently relocated from Sydney, Australia to Los Angeles.His mother continued that Rory was living in a cottage on his family’s Malibu estate when the fires ravaged the property. “I couldn’t put out the cinders on his roof with a hose because the water was switched off by Las Virgenes Municipal Water,” she noted.