It is more than nine years since Cilla Black passed away – and in the year before her sudden death, she had a premonition about the end of her life.
The Blind Date and Surprise, Surprise host died at her holiday home in Spain following a stroke and a fall aged 72.
Now the late telly legend is the subject of Channel 5’s Cilla Black: The Queen of Saturday Night, which airs this weekend (August 24).
But according to one friend, it was no shock Cilla died – and they have claimed she believed her late husband Bobby, who passed away in 1999, was ‘waiting for her’.

Cilla Black died in August 2015 (Credit: Channel 5)

Death of Cilla Black: ‘I wasn’t surprised’
Terry McCann – said to be a pal of Cilla’s – previously suggested she had a sense of foreboding about her death.
He is said to have claimed she confided in him about her declining health. It is believed Cilla may have started to lose her hearing and sight, and suffered with arthritis.
Terry reportedly reflected: “I wasn’t surprised when I found out she had died. The last thing she said to me was she was going blind, she showed me her hands, she had arthritis. She willed herself to die. She said: ‘Bobby’s waiting for me.’”

Cilla Black ‘willed herself to die’, a friend has claimed (Credit: Channel 5)