Frasier star Kelsey Grammer has announced he's bought a home in Portishead with his fourth wife, Kayte Walsh.
Known for his iconic performances as Dr Frasier Crane in Cheers and Frasier, as well as the voice of Sideshow Bob in The Simpsons, Kelsey has enjoyed a hugely successful career, but throughout is life he's endured a number of heart wrenching tragedies.
The 67-year-old suffered the violent deaths of two people in his family, which resulted in him battling a drug and alcohol addiction. His grandfather once told him his family had been cursed - just a few years before he died of cancer himself.
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Here we take a look back at Kelsey's life as the star becomes a permanent fixture in the Bristol area.
Sister's murder
Kelsey's younger sister died in extremely tragic circumstances. Karen, 18, was kidnapped and raped by four men and murdered by a man named Freddie Lee Glenn.
Karen was sitting alone outside the café where she'd just finished a shift as a waitress when she was abducted in June 1975. Glenn and his accomplices drove Karen to an apartment where they "took turns raping her for about four hours".
Glenn then stabbed her repeatedly and left her for dead in a trailer park. Karen was able to make it to the safety of a nearby home – but nobody was inside, and tragically she died from her wounds on the porch.
The following year, Glenn was found guilty of Karen's murder, as well as two other killings at the time. He was sentenced to death – but that death sentence was later overturned.
At his last parole hearing in 2009, Kelsey intervened with an emotional statement, telling the board: “She was so smart and good and decent. We could laugh for hours together. I was supposed to protect her - I could not.
“It very nearly destroyed me. When we heard this man might be paroled, the suffering began anew.”
Father's killing
His parents split up when he was two years old, and he and his sister were raised by their grandparents. Eleven years later, a man set fire to his dad Frank's car outside his family's home. When Frank went outside to confront the stranger, he was shot twice by a man named Arthur B. Niles.
Niles was found not guilty by reason of insanity, and was admitted to a mandated psychiatric care.
Drug addiction
Not long after being expelled from school after he stopped attending classes, he began abusing alcohol and drugs.
He later told Oprah that his first bouts of alcoholism were fuelled by the depression he felt because of his sister's murder.
He said: “I liked it. I liked the way it made me feel. Maybe it was because I was running away from the feelings that weren't, you know, as comfortable as I wanted them to do be, and maybe I do have a self-destructive part of me.”
He eventually battled the addition and started acting, moving from stage to screen in the early 1980s when he played Stephen Smith in miniseries Kennedy.
Four marriages
After three divorces, Kelsey now believes he has found lasting love with Kayte Walsh, a former air stewardess, who hails from Portishead. He married Kayte, who is 25 years his junior, in 2011 and the two are now often spotted in the coastal town's restaurants and bars.
Speaking to BBC Breakfast, Grammer said: "I love the people in Portishead, and I love the time we spend there. It's a good spot. We've actually bought a house there. We've bought a little place we're going to be working on."
Asked if he might be around more frequently, Grammer replied: "Yeah, probably. We won't be taking up residence for a while, but yeah, we're pretty excited about it. The little view of Wales over the channel there, it's really nice."
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