BBC PRESENTER Barry Fantoni has died at home, as Ian Hislop has paid tribute to the “brilliant writer, artist and musician”;;.
Barry, who was also a revered cartoonist and script writer, died aged 85 on May 20 at his home in Turin, , it has been confirmed.
In an emotional tribute, Private Eye editor Ian Hislop said: “Barry was a brilliant multi-talented writer, artist and musician.
“He was an integral part of Private Eye’s comic writing team from the early days in the sixties and I hugely enjoyed collaborating with him when I joined the magazine later on.
“He created formats and characters and jokes that are still running and he was for a long time of the great poet and obituarist E J Thribb. So farewell then Barry.”;;
