Joe Lycett's anguish over Gareth Richards death as star reveals crash victim's last message

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Joe Lycett has spoken emotionally about Gareth Richards' death and his regrets over his and Frank Skinner's close friend. Comic Richards died aged just 41 on Friday, April 7, after being left critically injured in a car crash.

Richards was a comedian who got close to many comics on the circuit along with Skinner, as his former co-host on radio. Lycett, from Kings Heath, said he had got to know Richards at the Edinburgh Festival.

But the star of Channel 4 show Late Night Lycett also revealed how he had been left with regrets over his last contact with Richards before the unexpected tragedy. READ MORE: Frank Skinner co-host Gareth Richards dies aged 41 after 'terrible' car crash In a heartfelt statement Lycett said: "When I did my first hour at the Edinburgh Festival I shared my venue with Gareth Richards.

He was on after me and was normally the first person I saw when I came off stage. "He wasn't having the best time of it that year but he was always generous and comforting, despite presumably trying to focus on his own very imminent show. "We gigged together on and off over the last decade and reconnected more actively in the last couple of years, and I felt like he was getting to a happy and more honest place with who he was. "He'd been very brave.