A CBEEBIES legend has sadly died aged 63 as emotional tributes pour in.
Kay Benbow was lovingly referred to as the Queen of Beebies and devoted 35 years to producing kids’s leisure.
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Stuart Rowson, a former BBC Kids’s colleague who now runs Fortunate Socks Media, wrote: “Kay was a legendary chief of CBeebies and affectionately referred to as the Queen of Beebies by a few of these nonetheless inside BBC Kids’s, a number of years after her departure.”
Emotional tributes have poured in since her demise.
Benbow labored within the kids’s content material trade for greater than 35 years, virtually 30 of which had been spent on the BBC.
She was controller of CBeebies from 2010 till the top of 2017.
Throughout her time there, the community received Bafta Kids’s Channel of the Yr 5 occasions.
