William Hickey

Bringing the gossip since 1933

- By Robert Meakin

REFLECTING on his famous tally of screen deaths — an estimated 26 to date — Sean Bean insists that TV and film bosses sometimes regret his loss.

Memorably killed off in Game of Thrones, The Lord of the Rings and recent BBC crime drama This City Is Ours, to name but three, the Yorkshireman, pictured, now chuckles: “They say, ‘Oh, we should have kept you alive.’ I say, ‘It’s too ******* late now!’”

Currently seen starring alongside friend Daniel Day-Lewis in movie Anemone, Sean reassures us: “I’ve survived this one.”

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