Comedy actress Mollie Sugden, best known for her role as Betty Slocombe in the hit TV series Are You Being Served?, has died in hospital at the age of 86 after a long illness.
The popular television star shot to fame in the 1970s comedy show packed with double-entendres, as the panto-like character of Mrs Slocombe
Sugden played the head of ladies fashion alongside Wendy Richards, who died in February from cancer, in the antiquated Grace Brothers department store.
Mollie Sugden, pictured at the funeral of her Are You Being Served? co-star Wendy Richard earlier this year, has died aged 86
She died after a long illness, according to her agent, who said she had never receovered from her husband's death in 2000.
Sugden's twin sons, Robin and Simon Moore, were at her bedside at the Royal Surrey County Hospital, said agent Joan Reddin.
David Croft, one of the writers of Are You Being Served?, remembered her as a 'marvellous character' who would never turn down chances to make people laugh.
'She would never refuse any sort of comedy situation no matter how undignified it was she would always go along with it. She was marvellously funny,' he said.MORE
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