Fast Show actor’s transgender child dies aged 25 as family pay tribute to Oxford Uni student who ‘radiated warmth’

THE transgender kid of Fast Show prima Paul Shearer has died, aged 25.

Neuroscience PhD pupil Cal Shearer was recovered hanged successful accommodation astatine Oxford University's St John's College.

An inquest was opened connected Monday astatine Oxford's Coroner's Court pursuing the calamity connected October 30.

The origin of decease was fixed arsenic hanging. A afloat inquest volition beryllium heard connected March 10 adjacent year.

A memorial leafage has raised thousands of pounds for The Samaritans and trans-led foundation Gender Intelligence.

A household tribute connected the leafage read: "Cal's passing is simply a tragic nonaccomplishment to everyone who knew them,' a household tribute connected the leafage read.

"They had truthful overmuch to offer, but the symptom of their interior turmoil proved excessively large for them to bear."

Cal - who had besides been diagnosed with autism - joined their woman Imogen, an NHS worker, connected July 1 past year.

The mates tied the knot astatine St John's College, wherever Cal had completed an undergraduate grade successful Psychology and Linguistics.

They had met aged 7 and began dating successful 2013.

The memorial leafage added: "Many walked beside Cal during the years they privately struggled with their intelligence health. Imogen, Cal's agelong word friend, past spouse and, past year, woman ne'er near their side.

"Now moving for the NHS, Imogen tried to unafraid Cal the close attraction for this each excessively prevalent but not yet understood situation of suicides amongst autistic radical identifying arsenic trans."

Cal was calved connected March 21 1999 and raised successful Bethnal Green, London.

They are understood to person been a unpaid for Samaritans, arsenic good arsenic Oxford University's Nightline service.

Tributes person flooded the memorial page. One read: "Cal, I americium truthful grateful to person had the accidental to cognize you.

"You worked truthful hard to uplift others contempt your ain struggles."

MUM'S TRIBUTE

Their TV and movie shaper mum Vicky Licorish paid an affectional tribute to "our beauteous Cal" arsenic she shared respective household photos.

She wrote: "Our brave, beautiful, blazingly clever, wickedly comic and endlessly compassionate Cal sadly mislaid their conflict with intelligence wellness this week. There are nary words."

Vicky presented Saturday SuperStore successful the 1980s alongside Keith Chegwin and DJ Mike Reid earlier moving into producing.

Her enactment includes BBC play Small Island.

She joined Paul successful 1994. He was a subordinate of Cambridge University's Footlights ensemble alongside Stephen Fry, Emma Thompson and Hugh Laurie.

They won the archetypal ever Perrier Comedy Award successful 1981.

He starred successful the archetypal bid of sketch drama amusement There's Nothing to Worry About! the pursuing twelvemonth with the ensemble.

But is astir apt champion known for his regular appearances connected The Fast Show from 1994 to 1997.

He played a assortment of characters, including a bemused lawsuit successful the 'Suit You' tailors segments.

It comes aft chap Oxford pupil Alexander Rogers, 20, took his ain beingness successful January.

The 3rd twelvemonth undergraduate, who was studying astatine the university's Corpus Christi College, was "cancelled" by his peers, prompting a coroner to constitute to the Government astir "self-policing" among immoderate students.

Coroner Nicholas Graham said Alexander - known arsenic Xander - had been "ostracised" aft a pistillate expressed discomfort astir a intersexual brushwood betwixt the pair.

In a Prevention of Future Deaths Report, Mr Graham urged the Department for Education to instrumentality enactment to forestall akin deaths, reports the BBC.

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