Children's TV presenter marks anniversary of co-star's tragic suicide | J4VE91B | 2024-04-10 21:08:01
Children's TV presenter Kirsten O'Brien has remembered her co-star, Mark Speight, on the 16th anniversary of his dying.
Tragically, Speight died by suicide in April 2008 at the age of 42.
His dying shook the nation, as many younger individuals grew up loving his work on the artwork programme SMart.
Speight turned one of many first presenters of the CBBC present, engaged on it for 14 years from its first collection in 1994.
Kirsten, now 52, joined SMart in the late nineties and followers shortly grew to love their on-screen banter and friendship.
Paying tribute to Speight on April 7, Kirsten shared a candy throwback photograph of the two of them joking around.
She penned: '16 years. What a gloriously humorous man he was, and so beloved.'
The publish on X was shortly flooded with heartfelt replies from fans.
'He is properly remembered. My thoughts are with you and people who knew and beloved him', wrote Melancholic4Evr.
'Mark and Natasha's story has all the time stayed with me, heartbreakingly unhappy but in addition one in every of true love. They beloved one another a lot that he couldn't see past the pain. Ideas to their families x', stated Pineal_Neil.
'You and Mark stored me going by way of my teenage years,can't consider it's been 16 years,Mark continues to be missed Xx', wrote AngelaLeightley.
In January 2008, Speight discovered his girlfriend's body, Natasha Collins, in the tub of their shared London flat.
He was later arrested on suspicion of her murder, however not charged with any offence.
An inquest later determined that Collins had died of a drug overdose and extreme burns from scorching water, and it was dying by misadventure.
In April of that yr, Speight was reported missing and was later discovered to have taken his life near Paddington station.
Two suicide notes have been found.
Speaking previously about her much-loved colleague and good friend's dying, Kirsten recalled the devastation of getting to announce the information to CBBC's younger viewers.
'I felt various strain which is weird because I do know it wasn't about me, however I felt like I was in the eye of the storm.'
Recalling the attention surrounding Speight's demise, Kirsten stated: 'I feel there'll, thankfully, be very few individuals in life who will ever need to expertise the horror of seeing certainly one of your folks in the news headlines and I simply keep in mind strolling on to the practice…
'You already know everyone discards the Metro all over the place, I might just see his face in all places, everywhere in the practice.'
Kirsten revealed how individuals would ask her what happened to Speight in public, sending her into floods of tears.
When asked how she thinks Speight would have coped if he lived within the social media age, Kirsten stated: 'Serious about it now, in mild of social media, I feel there's small room to be thankful that there wasn't that much social media on the time.
'In that period after Tash had died and Mark was nonetheless round, I feel that he would not of [sic] appreciated that social media surroundings in any respect, which has been proved of late with Caroline Flack bless her, it's just not a pleasant world…
'In some ways there's a small mercy that he did not should expertise that social media surroundings.'&
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