Carry On Cleo

Three cheers for hearse-chaser extraordinaire Cleo Rocos! After repeatedly dazzling the nation a-weeping-and-a-wailin’ with tales of her dead pal Kenny Everett the fickle finger of fate has flung a new dead mate in Cleo’s path. Yes! Benazir Bhutto! (Obviously). This is what she wrote for a Sunday tabloid on the occasion of Bhutto’s tragic assassination. We can only hope Bhutto’s happy in the after life making her Baked Alaska…

"We must have looked an odd couple. Me with my flash of red hair and designer clothes, her swathed in headscarf and dark sunglasses. But we had been close friends for seven years, since we were introduced by a mutual friend at a party.

Benazir was very different from her political image. She was full of fun and mischief. One night, after we'd had dinner, she asked me if I'd like to go shopping. "Get in my car, I'll drive," she said. I stepped in only to discover she couldn't drive at all well. "I only drive about twice a year," she said. She mounted the kerb and we made off.

After a swift swerve into another kerb, we screeched to a stop. "We're here", she said and started to get out-heading straight into CostCutters! She made straight for the tinned tomatoes. "A girl can never have too many tinned tomatoes," she said.

I once asked her if she had been to the Ivy restaurant. She hadn't, so I booked a table. She absolutely loved it.

She was a self confessed yo-yo dieter. She loved her Cadbury's Fruit and Nut chocolate and cooking her Baked Alaska using meringues, fruit and piles of ice cream. I've got her special recipe.

She was loyal and clearly in love with her husband. She refused to leave him to benefit her political career, just as she refused to listen to allegations of his infidelity.

I consider myself very lucky to have had some wonderful and very personal times with this brave and magnificent woman. Her death is nothing short of a catastrophe. "

CLEO, 45, found fame in the Kenny Everett Video Show and also appeared in this year's Celebrity Big Brother.