BROADCASTER Alan Whicker, whose distinguished TV career stretched nearly 60 years, has died at the age of 87 after suffering from bronchial pneumonia, his spokeswoman says.
Whicker was best known for his Whicker's World TV series and his global travels during a distinguished TV career.
The presenter and reporter died in the early hours of Friday at his home in Jersey.
The star, who had been with partner Valerie Kleeman for more than 40 years, regularly presented Whicker's World for a little over three decades.
The documentary programs famously brought a glimpse of the exotic jetset lifestyles of the rich and famous into UK homes.
In 2009, he returned to some of the locations and people who featured over the years for a BBC series, Alan Whicker's Journey Of A Lifetime.
His distinctive voice and delivery led to him regularly being parodied by, among others, the Monty Python team, and a jokey rap delivered Whicker-style, called Wikka Wrap, even made the top 20 in 1981. He once entered a Whicker soundalike contest and managed to finish in third place.
Egypt-born Whicker had also been a war correspondent and, during his own service in World War II, he was among the first group of Allied forces to enter Milan and he filmed footage of the body of Mussolini.
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