Actress Brigit Forsyth – who starred in Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads? – has died at the age of 83, her agent has said.
Forsyth played Thelma Ferris, the long suffering wife of Rodney Bewes’s character Bob, in the cult 1970s BBC sitcom.
Her agent Mark Pemberton confirmed she died “peacefully in her sleep surrounded by her family” in the early hours of Friday morning.
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