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UK comic Tony Knight, also referred to as the Canine Listener, has died after a freak accident at a pageant in France. The 54-year-old Knight was struck and killed by a big falling tree department in June on the Rock & Automobiles fest in Lavaur, a member of the family confirmed to Fox Information Digital.
In keeping with French outlet Le Tarn Libre, two branches fell off a big tree on the pageant grounds, killing Knight and injuring 4 others.
“He was match, wholesome, blissful and had every thing going for him,” wrote Joanne Allen, sister of Knight’s longtime companion Hayley Wright on Knight’s GoFundMe web page. “He was charismatic, humorous, passionate and so very liked by Hayley, his household and his buddies everywhere in the world.”
Along with his work as a comic, Knight turned his ardour for canines right into a second profession as a canine coach. “He helped folks everywhere in the world together with his lessons each in individual, on-line, on radio and tv, ebooks, and extra,” Allen wrote. “He was very effectively revered and admired. His technique labored and he liked serving to folks with their canines.”
Knight had carried out his comedy present Mad Canine and an Englishman at venues in Australia and abroad and was about to do a run of reveals all through the UK, Allen wrote.
“We’re past devastated that his life was taken by a freak accident,” Allen added, “an accident that we’re all nonetheless making an attempt to grasp.”
His companion Hayley penned a tribute to Knight a couple of days after his demise on Instagram.
“He was an exceptionally gifted man, with so many strings to his bow,” she wrote. “There actually was nothing he couldn’t do. He was a incredible buddy to so many, a tremendous canine Dad….however most of all he was my world & it’ll by no means be the identical with out him.”
“He would in all probability finish this with a joke, however that was his expertise & not mine….he actually did see the brilliant aspect of each state of affairs. I’m really heartbroken & in shock,” she concluded.
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