'My 陳謝s!' Kay Burley is left red 直面するd after 混乱させるing Dennis Waterman with Popstars namesake Pete in since-削除するd social マスコミ gaffe after 支払う／賃金ing 尊敬の印 to late actor

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Kay Burley has apologised after?混乱させるing Dennis Waterman with another TV 星／主役にする after his death 老年の 74 was 発表するd on Sunday.

The news presenter, 61, made the embarrassing error?when she paid 尊敬の印 to a 'Pete Waterman', not Dennis Waterman in a Twitter 尊敬の印.?

Pete Waterman is a 記録，記録的な／記録する 生産者 who was a 裁判官 on Popstars: The 競争相手s.

Oh dear: Kay Burley has apologised after 混乱させるing Dennis Waterman with another TV 星／主役にする after his death age 74 was 発表するd on Sunday

The 新聞記者／雑誌記者 wrote in her 修正するd tweet: 'RIP Dennis Waterman. A brilliant actor who was a 中心的要素 on our 審査するs throughout the 70s and 80s.?

'Loved The Sweeney. Loved Minder more. He was 74.

She 追加するd: 'My 陳謝s for using the incorrect first 指名する for Dennis in a previous tweet which I have 削除するd.'

Many 人物／姿／数字s in the entertainment 産業 急ぐd to 支払う／賃金 尊敬の印 to the actor, 解任するing some of his most iconic 役割s and 抱擁する talent.?

伝説の TV actor Dennis died at the age of 74, his family 発表するd on Sunday.?

Mistake: The news presenter, 61, made the embarrassing error when she paid 尊敬の印 to a 'Pete Waterman', not Dennis Waterman (pictured) in a Twitter 尊敬の印

Waterman was one of the most popular television actors of the 1970s in 80s. He starred as 護衛 Terry McCann in Minder after first finding fame as 堅い nut 警官，（賞などを）獲得する George Carter in The Sweeney.

In more 最近の years, he starred as Gerry Standing in the BBC's New Tricks, and throughout his career other TV 役割s 含むd ITV's Where The Heart Is, The Canterbury Tales and Moses Jones, both for the BBC.

In a 声明, his family said he died today in Spain with his wife Pam at his 味方する.

They 明言する／公表するd: 'We are 深く，強烈に saddened to 発表する that our beloved Dennis passed away very 平和的に at his home in Spain. The family kindly ask that our privacy is 尊敬（する）・点d at this very difficult time.'

Whoops:?Pete Waterman is a 記録，記録的な／記録する 生産者 who was a 裁判官 on Popstars: The 競争相手s (her 初めの tweet with the mistake is pictured)?

尊敬の印s have flooded in as news broke of Waterman's death.

生産者 Jonathan Sothcott tweeted: 'Dennis Waterman was one of our biggest TV 星／主役にするs throughout the 70s and 80s, an everyman 人物／姿／数字 who felt like one of us. A naturalistic, nuanced actor.?

'Terrific in The Sweeney, unforgettable in Minder (helluva song too, lampoonery aside). They don’t make ‘em like that anymore.'

Actor Stuart Anthony said: 'Dennis Waterman has left us. What a fantastic talent and lovely man. Such a loss to the 産業. RIP.'

修正するd:?The 新聞記者／雑誌記者 wrote in her 修正するd tweet: 'RIP Dennis Waterman. A brilliant actor who was a 中心的要素 on our 審査するs throughout the 70s and 80s'

Newsreader Kay Burley 地位，任命するd: 'A brilliant actor who was a 中心的要素 on our 審査するs throughout the 70s and 80s. Loved The Sweeney. Loved Minder more.'

DIY SOS presenter Nick Knowles also today reminisced about a charity ゴルフ trip he took と一緒に Waterman.

Knowles tweeted: 'I played ゴルフ on a 小旅行する to Bermuda with Dennis Waterman - I'm not much of a golfer - he was - but it was time spent with him between 一連の会議、交渉／完成するs that were 井戸／弁護士席 価値（がある） the trip. A genuinely lovely guy. RIP.'?

And presenter and comedian 米，稲 McGuinness said he had always 手配中の，お尋ね者 to be the character of Waterman's Terry McCann.

星／主役にする: Dennis, 権利, was one of the most popular television actors of the 70s and 80s. Pictured here with Minder co-星／主役にする George Cole

In a tweet, he wrote: 'Myself and my 不死鳥／絶品 Nights cast mates used to sing the 主題 tune to Minder on 小旅行する and on the Karaoke!?

'Gutted I never got to 会合，会う him, always 手配中の，お尋ね者 to be Terry McCann. Another icon from my childhood gone. RIP Dennis Waterman.'

新聞記者／雑誌記者 John Sweeney tweeted: 'RIP Dennis Waterman. The Sweeney was everything 広大な／多数の／重要な TV 演劇 should be: gritty, honest, true.'

Actor and writer Reece Shearsmith 追加するd: 'RIP Dennis Waterman. When I worked with him on "New Tricks" he made me the best cups of tea. And of course I just spent the time 取調べ／厳しく尋問するing him about "Scars of Dracula".'

TV: Waterman?pictured in character as Terry McCann on 場所 during filming of the television series Minder in London in October 1979

Former Eastenders and Rise of the Footsoldier actor Craig Fairbrass said: 'Truly upset & gutted 審理，公聴会 this news. I loved him - my days will never be the same watching ITV4 Sweeney & Minder. 質 classic TV. RIP Dennis x'

Born in London, Waterman was educated at the Corona Theatre School and began his showbiz career at a young age.

に引き続いて a 役割 for the Children's Film 創立／基礎, he was 招待するd to join Stratford's 王室の Shakespeare Company. A 役割 in the BBC's adaptation of the Just William 調書をとる／予約するs followed and the actor would, in his later years, 反映する on some of the different 役割s he undertook.

In 2009, he starred in the BBC's hard-hitting 演劇 Moses Jones, a 役割 which he said at the time he had enjoyed because it cast him in a different light.

Co-星／主役にするs: Waterman with New Tricks co-星／主役にする Amanda Redman arriving for the 星雲 British 調書をとる／予約する Awards at the Grosvenor House Hotel in March 2007

He 追加するd: 'I really enjoyed it, because it was a very different 肉親，親類d of character - and that's important.?

'On television in Britain, I'm sort of the cheeky chappie, everybody's mate, but I've never played anything like that in the theatre. It's strange that you get cast as different things in different parts of the マスコミ.'

His 役割 in 2003 演劇 New Tricks 示すd his return to a long-running show for the first time in a １０年間 and saw him 星／主役にする と一緒に 事実上の／代理 stalwarts James Bolam and Alun Armstrong. He 最初 joined the show in 2003 and featured in the 役割 for 11 years until 2014.?

His character Gerry was part of the 冷淡な 事例／患者 squad, who were often at 半端物s with their 探偵，刑事 boss, played by Amanda Redman.

Minder was later 生き返らせるd by Channel 5 in 2009, but Waterman did not return for the new 遠出.

His 広範囲にわたる career also 含むd 非常に／多数の stints on the 行う／開催する／段階 and he played Alfred Doolittle in a 王室の 国家の Theatre 生産／産物 of My Fair Lady, 同様に as starring in a 小旅行する 生産／産物 of Don't Dress For Dinner.?

He also starred in 生産／産物s of Twelfth Night, Edward 社債's Saved at the 王室の 法廷，裁判所 Theatre and Sergeant Musgrave's Dance.

His talents did not end with 事実上の／代理 and he had a keen 利益／興味 in music, having 記録，記録的な／記録するd albums and （テニスなどの）シングルス, 含むing songs which charted in Australia, New Zealand and Britain.

Fun: Waterman (centre) pictured with Little Britain 星／主役にするs Matt Lucas and David Walliams for a special Comic 救済 業績／成果 in 2006

He was also part of the popular 小旅行する, Friends On 小旅行する, which saw him take to the road と一緒に Sheena Easton and Gerard Kenny.

The final 事業／計画（する） of his 事実上の／代理 career （機の）カム in 2020 in the form of was Australian 演劇-comedy film Never Too Late.?

It followed four former 囚人s of war that broke out of their （軍の）野営地，陣営 during the Vietnam War before becoming 居住（者）s in the same 退職 home.

Waterman was married four times and had two daughters with second wife Patricia Maynard, one of whom is former Eas tEnders actress Hannah Waterman - who later played his daughter in New Tricks.

He attracted headlines when he 分裂（する） up with Maynard in 1987 and married actress Rula Lenska, but the marriage fell apart after ten years まっただ中に （人命などを）奪う，主張するs of 乱用. In 2012, Waterman attracted 論争 in an interview by 明言する／公表するing: 'She certainly wasn't a beaten wife, she was 攻撃する，衝突する and that's different.'

Waterman married his fourth wife Pam Flint in 2011 after 存在 friends for many years and they remained together until his death.

Dennis Waterman: An actor and singer whose career spanned more than six １０年間s

Dennis Waterman was a familiar 直面する on British television for more than six １０年間s.

From 堅い 警官，（賞などを）獲得する George Carter in The Sweeney to good-hearted 探偵，刑事 sergeant Gerry Standing in New Tricks, he was known for playing 活動／戦闘-packed characters who had more than 会合，会うs the 注目する，もくろむ.

Not one to 焦点（を合わせる） on a 選び出す／独身 役割, Waterman was also an 遂行するd singer, 行う／開催する／段階 actor and film 星／主役にする.

Born in 1948 in Clapham, south-west London, as the youngest of nine children, he was surrounded by arts at a young age thanks to his older sister Joy, who ran her own amateur 劇のs society and encouraged the 残り／休憩（する） of the Waterman children to join.

His mother also dabbled in music by playing the piano in a way which Waterman once 述べるd as an 'East End 膝s-up 職業'.

Waterman joined the Corona Theatre School in 1959 に引き続いて a suggestion from another one of his siste rs and soon got work in the 産業.

Dennis Waterman, whose 事実上の／代理 and singing career spanned six １０年間s, has died 老年の 74

His film debut （機の）カム in 1960 in the Night Train For Inverness.?

Also at the age of 12, Waterman was 招待するd to join the 王室の Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon.

He followed with the television series Just William, and spent a year in the West End playing Winthrop Parroo in The Music Man.

At 16, he starred on the West End in Carving A Statue, which 示すd the beginning of a 記録，記録的な／記録するing career and a three-year 約束／交戦 at the 王室の 法廷，裁判所.

During that time, his versatility as an actor was stretched in 生産／産物s 範囲ing from Edward 社債's Saved, through to Twelfth Night and Sergeant Musgrave's Dance.

その上の stints on television and in the theatre led to him 上陸 a 役割 in Nell Dunn's Up The Junction in 1967, playing Pete, a man from his native Clapham, who 会合，会うs a n upper class girl from Chelsea, west London, and begins dating her.

Waterman became a 世帯 指名する after playing the 役割 of DS George Carter in 罪，犯罪 series The Sweeney, in which he co-starred with John 雪解け. The 世界的な 人気 led to two film box office 粉砕するs, Sweeney I and Sweeney II.

He later 反映するd 情愛深く on his time in the show, 明言する／公表するing in his Life And Times 文書の: 'We knew we were doing something really やめる special and very different from British television.

'There was no worry then, which I think was a help. There was no 広大な／多数の／重要な panic about whether it was going to be a success in the ratings.

'We just knew we had very good scripts, we had 広大な／多数の／重要な directors, and we thought we weren't that shabby. John [雪解け] and I were 広大な／多数の／重要な mates and, it sounds horrible, but it was just a joy to go to work every day.'

His Sweeney success was later topped with 批判的に acclaimed television series The Minder, where Waterman played 護衛, or 'minder', Terry McCann for 10 years from 1979. He 論証するd his 声の talents by singing the 主題 song, I Could Be So Good for You, which 頂点（に達する）d at number three in the UK charts in 1980.

His passion for singing led Waterman to 解放（する） music with 記録，記録的な／記録する companies EMI and DJM.

He 解放（する）d three albums - 負かす／撃墜する 勝利，勝つd Of Angels, Waterman and So Good For You - in the 1970s and 1980s and 成し遂げるd around the UK on a 小旅行する, dubbed Friends On 小旅行する, with Sheena Easton and Gerard Kenny.

Waterman pictured on 始める，決める for The Sweeney, in which he first 設立する fame playing the 役割 of 堅い nut 警官，（賞などを）獲得する George Carter. The series 開始する，打ち上げるd his career on British television

Waterman pictured during filming for Piers Morgan's Life Stories. He is?urvived by his wife, Pam, and two daughters, Julia and Hannah

Echoing the success of Sweeney, Minder was adapted into a film based on the TV series する権利を与えるd Minder On The Orient 表明する, which was broadcast on Christmas Day in 1985.

After leaving Minder, Waterman returned to the 行う／開催する／段階 for several years, starring in shows 含むing Jeffrey Bernard in Unwell in Australia, Ireland and the UK, and My Fair Lady in the West End.

In the latter part of his career, he played Gerry Standing in the show New Tricks from 2003 to 2014.

Afterwards he 半分-retired, splitting his time between his homes in Berkshire and Spain. His final film 役割 was in the Australian comedy 演劇 Never Too Late in 2020.

Waterman is 生き残るd by his wife, Pam, and two daughters, Julia and Hannah, who were born に引き続いて his marriage to actress Patricia Maynard.?