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| Denise Robertson, resident agony aunt for ITV's This Morning, has died aged 83, the show has said. | Denise Robertson, resident agony aunt for ITV's This Morning, has died aged 83, the show has said. |
| She revealed in February that she had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. | |
| The programme posted the news on its Twitter account, writing: "Such sad news - our friend and colleague Denise Robertson has lost her short but determined battle against cancer." | |
| Robertson, from Sunderland, had been with the programme since it began in 1988. | |
| In a statement read out by This Morning presenter Ruth Langsford in mid-February, Robertson said her diagnosis had come as a surprise but she did not plan to "give up without a fight". | |
| She also thanked the viewers of the show who had been concerned about her health. | |
| This Morning colleague Phillip Schofield tweeted: "I'm heartbroken at the passing of our @itvthismorning icon Denise Robertson. Kind, thoughtful, caring & wonderful." | |
| Her popularity on the show led to her being offered her own TV show, Dear Denise, in 2000, and she was appointed an MBE in 2006 for services to broadcasting and to charity. | |
| In 2002 she appeared as a relationship and love expert on Dave Gorman's Important Astrology Experiment. | |
| The agony aunt was also a regular fixture on Channel 5's Big Brother's Bit On The Side. | |
| She also had her own advice website and wrote a column for Candis magazine. | |
| Robertson lost her first husband Alex Robertson to lung cancer in 1972, but kept his surname when she remarried. | |
| In 2006 her stepson, John, also died of cancer, at the age of 44. | |
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