- By Peter Walker
- BBC News, Essex
A second man has been arrested in connection with the death of Gogglebox star George Gilbey.
Essex Police said a man, 36, from Witham, had been arrested on suspicion of gross negligence manslaughter.
The second arrested man was still in custody, officers said.
The force added that a joint investigation with the Health and Safety Executive remained ongoing.
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A short inquest hearing earlier this month was told Gilbey’s injuries were “consistent with a fall from height”.
Coroner’s officer, Deborah Frost, said: “[Gilbey] was working on a roof when he fell through a plastic skylight and landed on the ground below”.
Gilbey, from Clacton-on-Sea, was one of the early regulars on the Channel 4 reality show Gogglebox, where families sitting in their living rooms were filmed reacting to television programmes.
He appeared on the show with his family between 2013 and 2018, and on Celebrity Big Brother in 2014.
Speaking to the Clacton Gazette, Gilbey’s mother Linda McGarry said her son “did more in his 40 years than people do in 90”.
Ms McGarry appeared on the Gogglebox sofa along with Gilbey’s stepfather Pete McGarry, who died in 2021 after a short illness.
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