edition of Liquid News on 16 April 2002. Other work In 2002, Price co-hosted BBC One's A Song for Europe competition to choose the UK entry into the Eurovision Song Contest. He had previously hosted BBC Choice shows relating to the contest, including the preview programmes. He had been scheduled to host BBC Choice's alternative coverage of the contest in May 2002. Before his death, Price was linked to a new BBC quiz show and a breakfast show on Channel 4. Death Towards the end of April 2002, Price was off work for a week with an acute ear infection. He died of heart failure on the night of 21 April 2002 caused by meningoencephalitis – an 'extremely rare' condition that had probably spread from his ear infection. On 22 April 2002, he failed to turn up for work and his close friends Robert Nisbet and Stephanie West went to his flat in Wells Street, off Oxford Street, in central London and found Price dead. Celebrities such as singer Kylie Minogue, comic actor Ralf Little, game show host Anne Robinson and BBC newsreader Huw Edwards paid tribute to him. Within a few days of his death, the BBC website had received over 5,000 e-mails paying tribute to him. Price's funeral was a traditional Requiem Mass, which was held at the London Oratory on 8 May 2002. A private cremation later took place at Mortlake Crematorium. References External links 1967 births 2002 deaths Alumni of the University of Reading BBC newsreaders and journalists BBC television presenters English adoptees English radio people English television presenters English Roman Catholics British LGBT broadcasters English LGBT people LGBT Roman Catholics People educated at Worth School People from Norfolk 20th-century LGBT people