Eamonn Holmes has opened up about the last time he spoke to Freddie Starr before his tragic death at the age of 76.
The late comedian's body was discovered by his carer at his townhouse in Feungirola on Thursday afternoon.
Recent reports have claimed that the comedian owed thousand of pounds in unpaid water bills and community fees when he died.
Speaking about the last time he saw him, Eamonn said on This Morning today: "The last time I saw him was the Oxford services station on the M40.
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"We pulled out and I was putting petrol in my car and he was at the other side of the pump putting petrol into his... Jeep, I think he was driving and we had a bit of a conversation there.
"It was probably the only sensible, normal conversation I've ever had with him."
"He was quite hard to interview him, wasn't he?" Ruth quipped.
Eamonn agreed: "He was different."
An autopsy is expected to take place later today at the Institute of Forensic Medicine in Malaga to rule out the possibility it was the result of a crime.
The former I’m A Celebrity star sold up and left the UK after losing a £1 million libel case against Karin Ward, then 57.
She claimed he had put his hand up her skirt when she was a teenager, before callously dismissing her as a “a**less wonder.’
He sued her for libel after she gave interviews saying she was “horribly, horribly humiliated” by the fallen comic.
A High Court judge ruled Miss Ward was telling the truth and dismissed the case in July 2015.
Starr, pictured entertaining pub drinkers at a karaoke in a Fuengirola bar in 2016, became the subject of one of the most famous newspaper headlines ever in 1987 over claims he ate a hamster after a performance at a nightclub.
He later insisted the hamster claim was a complete fabrication.
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