Fern Britton has paid a glowing tribute to her father Tony Britton after he died aged 95.
The 62-year-old TV presenter has taken to social media to announce the news of her father’s passing and to hail him as a great "actor, director and charmer".
Fern wrote on Twitter: "Our father, Tony Britton, died early this morning. Great actor, director and charmer. May flights of angels sing thee to thy rest. [angel emoji] (sic)"
During his career, Tony had roles in ‘Operation Amsterdam’, ‘Sunday Bloody Sunday’ and ‘The Day of the Jackal’, while he also starred in the BBC sitcom ‘Don’t Wait Up’.
Tony pursued a career as an actor after serving in the British military during World War Two.
However, he previously revealed that Fern was always eager to go down another route in her professional life.
Tony – whose 57-year-old son Jasper also followed him into acting – recalled: "Fern one day presented me with a form and said, ‘Dada, sign that,’ and it was the form for the Central School of Drama in London.
"And I saw she had put in, not for acting, but for stage management. And I said, ‘What? Why? What? Why don’t you want to do the acting?’
"There you are – you’re beautiful, you’re brilliant, you’ve got a beautiful personality, you’re intelligent, you’re all those lovely things! What do you mean, stage management?
"And she said, ‘No dada, no acting, not for me!’ So she did the stage management course – and killed it absolutely – number one in the class."
Fern Britton pays glowing tribute to ‘charming’ dad Tony Britton
