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Ben Duncan, the UK actuality star and longtime pal of Prince William and Kate Middleton, has handed away.
He was simply 45 years outdated.
Ben Duncan turns into the sixth housemate evicted from the eleventh and closing Massive Brother Home on July 30, 2010 in Borehamwood, England. (Picture by Eamonn McCormack/Getty Photographs)
London police verify Ben Duncan’s explanation for demise
In keeping with a press release issued to the Day by day Mail, Duncan “fell about 100 feet off a rooftop bar (on the seventh floor) at London’s Trafalgar St. James Hotel.”
A spokesperson says that “officers responded to concerns for a man on the roof of a building in Cockspur Street, Westminster.”
“The man sadly fell from height. Despite the best efforts from the London Ambulance service, he was sadly pronounced dead at the scene,” the assertion added. “His death is unexpected but non-suspicious.”
In a separate assertion, an insider at a London ambulance service spoke of the efforts to save lots of Duncan’s life.
Ben Duncan has handed away unexpectedly on the age of 45. (YouTube)
“’We sent resources to the scene, including an ambulance crew, an incident response officer, paramedics in fast response cars and paramedics from our hazardous area response team,” the insider instructed the Mail.
“We also dispatched a trauma team in a car from London’s Air Ambulance. Very sadly, despite the best efforts of our crews, a man was pronounced dead at the scene.”
An acquaintance of the longer term king and queen
Duncan competed on the UK model of Massive Brother in 2010. He went on to look on a number of extra actuality exhibits, together with Come Dine With Me, Ladette to Girl, and Superstar Coach Journey.
However he’s maybe greatest recognized for the truth that he attended the College of St Andrews concurrently William and Kate.
Catherine, Princess of Wales and Prince William, Prince of Wales stroll within the orchards as they go to to Lengthy Meadow Cider on October 14, 2025 in Craigavon, Northern Eire. (Picture by Chris Jackson/Getty Photographs)
“Because we’d had Will and Kate in our midst we had royal protection officers swarming the place,” he recalled in a 2010 interview (by way of Us Weekly). “We knew that they had hit it off and we knew that something was happening, but they were just left alone to get on with it.”
Duncan was additionally current on the well-known pupil style present the place Hate first caught William’s eye.
“It was the end of their first year. I was there, and in person there were a lot of attractive girls,” he recalled. “She was in a very daring dress, in a sheer stocking-like dress. He was sitting front row and his eyes were like stalks.”
Duncan added, “She brushed by him on the way to the catwalk and things were never the same again — the whole history of the monarchy had been altered.”
Neither William nor Kate has publicly commented on their former schoolmate’s passing.
Our ideas exit to Ben Duncan’s family members throughout this enormously tough time.
