Long-standing restaurant critic and columnist Adrian Gill, better known as AA Gill, has died aged 62 from cancer, Britain’s Sunday Times said.

Gill revealed he had cancer in his regular column last month.

“I’ve got cancer,” his opening words read. “Sorry to drop that onto the breakfast table apropos of nothing at all.

“There is barely a morsel of offal that is not included. I have a trucker’s gut-buster, gimpy, malevolent, meaty malignancy.

“My insides are being turned into road-rail, pig-lead, firewood, iron-ware and cheap tin trays.”

In an announcement on its website on Saturday (local time), the paper’s editor Martin Ivens said “the suddenness of his death has shocked us all” …

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