Barry Humphries, the man behind the Australian diva Dame Edna Everage, has sadly died at the age of 89.
Humphries was born in Melbourne, Australia, and moved to London in 1960 and for the last five decades his alter egos, Sir Les Patterson and the acid-tongued Dame Edna Everage, have graced British TV, stage and films.
Dame Edna travelled certainty made an impression when she travelled up to Newcastle during a tour in the nineties.
