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This Morning’s Gyles Brandreth has said he blames himself for the death of Rod Hull, the entertainer who fell to his death as he was trying to adjust the TV aerial on the roof of his home. The Sheppey-born ventriloquist, famous for his antics with his puppet Emu, tumbled from a ladder outside his bungalow in Winchelsea, East Sussex, in 1999. This was only years after his second marriage and his fortunes had hit the rocks, going from a 32-bedroom mansion in Medway to the dilapidated cottage. The 63-year-old was pronounced dead on arrival at hospital with a coroner later recording a verdict of a…

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