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Bond Girl Tanya Roberts still alive, publicist says following reports of her death

 (AP)
(AP)

James BOND star Tanya Roberts is still alive, according to the publicist who announced her death earlier this week.

Tributes were paid to the actress, who starred as Stacey Sutton opposite Sir Roger Moore in A View To A Kill, after her representative Mike Pingel said on Sunday that she had died aged 65.

US website TMZ also carried a statement from her partner on her death but Mr Pingel has now said she is still alive — and the family was waiting for further news from the Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre in Los Angeles. However, he added: “It does not look good.”

TMZ first reported her death, saying she had collapsed while walking her dogs on December 24 and was admitted to hospital but later her partner, Lance O’Brien, was interviewed by US news show Inside Edition and answered a phone call from the hospital on camera, telling him she was alive.

He broke down in tears at the news and said: “I’m so happy”. Born Victoria Leigh Blum in 1955, Roberts grew up in New York before moving to Hollywood in 1977.

Her chance came when she replaced Shelley Hack in TV series Charlie’s Angels, becoming the third Angel alongside Jaclyn Smith and Cheryl Ladd.

Following her appearance in 1985’s A View To A Kill, she was nominated for a Golden Raspberry award for worst actress. The film, which was Sir Roger’s final appearance in the role, also starred Grace Jones as May Day and Christopher Walken as the villainous Zorin.

Roberts’ career floundered after she appeared in a series of box office flops including fantasy adventure The Beastmaster and Sheena Queen of the Jungle, which also saw her nominated for a Golden Raspberry.

She enjoyed a brief career renaissance in the Nineties starring alongside Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher in hit US sitcom That ’70s Show.

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