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Sum Brookside star Dean Sullivan left in his will signed just a day before his death aged 68

The death of Dean Sullivan, who starred in Brookside, was announced last year. Now, the contents of his will has reportedly been revealed.

Dean was on Brookside between 1986 and 2003 (Credit: SplashNews.com) The actor’s death came just five years after his prostate cancer diagnosis. “I remember being a bit shell shocked really, because even though we know these days that one in three of us will be diagnosed with cancer of some sort, you never think it will be you,” he said at the time. The phone rang and it was the oncology nurse who said, ‘Gosh, you’re a very difficult man to get hold of!’ Then she revealed the scan had shown everything was fine, the cancer cells hadn’t gone anywhere else.

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