This Morning star Gyles Brandreth says he ‘blames himself’ for TV entertainer Rod Hull’s fatal accident as he says: ‘I killed a man – the emu man’

The Morning’s Gyles Brandreth has uncovered he ‘blames himself’ for the dying of legendary Tv set entertainer Rod Hull. 

Rod, who was famed for his emu attacks on Michael Parkinson and quite a few other well-known faces, tragically died in 1999 after slipping from the roof of his bungalow and suffering a extreme cranium fracture and upper body accidents.

He was pronounced lifeless on arrival at medical center. 

ITV star and previous MP Gyles, 76, has now unveiled that times earlier Rod had been complaining to him about his awful Tv set relationship and he ‘encouraged’ him to ‘get a ladder’ and climb on the roof.

Gyles admitted he feels accountable for his friend’s loss of life soon after he took his suggestions even though looking at a Champions League match amongst Manchester United and Inter Milan, at 50 percent-time.

Talking on his Rosebud podcast, Gyles admitted: ‘I killed a male – it was Rod Hull, the emu gentleman.

‘We ended up at the theatre, we have been at the very first night of Animal Crackers – it was a present about the Marx brothers.

‘Terrible, terrible weather conditions that evening. And he was sitting down next to me, and he was complaining all by the show – was interrupting the clearly show pretty much – going on about how he preferred to get household for the reason that he preferred to look at the soccer, but his Sky aerial wasn’t transmitting correctly.

‘And I stated, “Do not moan about it, if you want to view the television get a ladder out, climb on to the roof, and take care of it Rod”.

‘And immediately after the clearly show, in this stormy temperature, he went house, he got out a ladder, he climbed the ladder, and he tried using to resolve the aerial.

‘Unfortunately the wind was pretty great and he fell backwards off the ladder and killed himself.

‘So I was not in fact there, but I might encouraged him.’

Rod was 63 when he died and the incident was declared as accidental by an inquest.

Gyles went on to reveal how Rod provided his legendary emu into his funeral as he had arranged for a knocking sound accompanying the entry of his coffin.

He added: ‘It was a great funeral though mainly because at his funeral the coffin arrived in, and as the coffin was currently being carried in, it was a kind of [constant tapping sound].

‘He’d organized a beak audio to be inside of the coffin as though the emu was also in the coffin.’  

Children’s Television set present Rod ‘n’ Emu aired on CITV in the 90s and starred Rod who developed and wrote all the episodes as himself, with Carol Lee Scott as Grotbags and Freddie Stevens as her assistants Croc the crocodile and Redford the robot.