Stars of the entertainment world have been paying tribute to Dame Angela Lansbury, after the Murder, She Wrote actress died aged 96.
Angela's children announced the actress had died peacefully at home in Los Angeles this afternoon - just five days before her 97th birthday.
Dame Angela was known for playing crime novelist Jessica Fletcher in the long running TV series Murder, She Wrote, Broadway musicals Mame and Gypsy, and for voicing Mrs Potts in the Disney animation Beauty and the Beast.