Yahoo News Sir Ken Dodd death reports are "completely untrue"
Reports that Sir Ken Dodd has passed away are "completely untrue", the comedian's publicist has confirmed.
The legendary comic was hospitalised with a chest infection earlier this month and rumours that he'd departed us began to spread on social media on Monday night (January 22).
But his publicist Robert Holmes has said (via The Mirror): "I have just spoken to Ken on the phone from his hospital bed.
"He is philosophical about what's happened, but the important thing to stress is that he is continuing to make slow and steady progress.
"This report was upsetting and, of course, completely untrue – but reports like this get passed around very quickly, which is what makes them all the more distressing."
Sir Ken, who turned 90 in November, was admitted to hospital in his hometown of Liverpool on Friday, January 12 and it was felt at the time that he would make a full recovery.
The famed stand-up and singer-songwriter was awarded a knighthood for his services to entertainment and charity as part of the New Year Honours List for 2017. He had previously been awarded an OBE in the 1982 New Year Honours List.
Ken got his first big break in the industry while in his 20s in 1954, and has had a long, successful and pretty varied career since then. Although famed for his comedy, Dodd has also performed in a number of dramatic roles on stage and had a number one single in 1965 with 'Tears'.
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