And so, farewell then, Sheila Bernette.
An obscure name even over here in the UK nowadays - but to anyone of a generation that remembers 1970s British telly, she was everywhere!
A naturally gifted and very funny woman, she appeared in The Dick Emery Show, Coronation Street, Butterflies and with Morecambe and Wise, Larry Grayson, Leslie Crowther and Jimmy Tarbuck, was Tommy Cooper's "magician's assistant", regularly sang and performed on The Good Old Days, and was probably best-remembered as one of the pranksters (often as a "little old lady") on Candid Camera.
And then there was this - her famous advert for Extra Strong Mints:
Simply faboo!
Another little piece of the fabric of my childhood, gone. RIP.
