Comedian and actor Tony Slattery dies aged 65 following coronary heart assault
Comedian Tony Slattery has died at the age of 65 following a heart attack.
His partner announced the news in a statement this morning saying it was ‘with great sadness’ that he had passed away on Sunday evening.
Slattery appeared on the Channel 4 comedy improvisation show Whose Line Is It Anyway? and other programmes like Just A Minute and Have I Got News For You.
The words on behalf of his partner, Mark Michael Hutchinson said: ‘It is with great sadness we must announce actor and comedian Tony Slattery, aged 65, has passed away today, Tuesday morning, following a heart attack on Sunday evening.’
Born in 1959, Slattery was the contemporary of Dame Emma Thompson, Sir Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie at the University of Cambridge.
He was the former president of the improvisation group Cambridge Footlights, and had recently been touring a comedy show in England and launched a podcast, Tony Slattery’s Rambling Club, in October.
Hutchinson, a comedian, survives the actor as his partner of more than three decades.
The news comes as four years ago Slattery revealed he was still battling alcohol addiction one year after revealing he was sexually abused as a child by a priest.
Tony Slattery has died aged 65
The actor and comedian passed away following a heart attack
