Matthew Perry, Tina Turner, Sinead O Connor, Sir Bobby Charlton, Paul O Grady, Barry Humphries, Mohamed Al Fayed, Burt Bacharach, Jeff Beck, Jerry Springer, David Crosby, S Club 7 s Paul Cattermole, Martin Amis and Glenda Jackson were among the stars and notable figures who died in 2023.
Steve Halliwell, the actor, who has died aged 77, stormed dramatically into the ITV soap Emmerdale in 1994 as Zak Dingle, bare-knuckle fighting with the farmworker Ned Glover in the sleepy Yorkshire village. After a bloody battle, the pair rolled down an embankment into a stream and Ned landed the final blow.
Emmerdale stars have remembered Steve Halliwell, who played Zak Dingle on the ITV drama for nearly three decades, as a “soap icon” following his death aged 77.