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The star said Barry kept reassuring him about his health by putting his symptoms down to sciatica, which is a type of pain caused by an irritated nerve. The children’s television favourite
recalled: “He didn’t tell me at all. “Most of the rest of the family knew but he told them, ‘Don’t say anything to Paul,’ and he also didn’t want our manager Phil Dale to know either
because either me or Phil, definitely both, would have said, ‘Get yourself sorted, no matter what it takes, get it sorted, don’t carry on working until it’s sorted’. “But, no, he didn’t want
us to know because he wanted to carry on working, he always said he wanted to die on stage, and he more or less did, because he finished recording the Channel 5 show we did about five weeks
before he died.”