Cliff Richard's heartbreaking six-word end of life admission as he turns 85

Summer Holiday hitmaker Cliff Richard made a tragic end of life admission before turning 85. The singer and actor stated earlier in 2025: "I might be dead next year," in a tragic admission that left his fans reeling. After selling more than 250million records across his decades-long career, he admitted that performing and touring has become "very wearing".

He told Coast Radio in July: "The thing I would have to give up, probably, at some point is touring. It's very wearing, and you never know when you wake up in the morning whether your voice is still there." But when he was grilled if his 2025 Can't Stop Me Now tour could be his last, he replied: "I don't know.

"I might be dead next year. So I don't even think about it anymore. It's one of those things. As I get older, maybe I'll become less able to perform, so I can't say."

Cliff explained he "does not want to be an 85-year-old guy trying to be 18", confessing: "I can still move on stage and that's what I do. I've got two backing singers, two guys, and they can dance, they can act, they can sing, they can play instruments.

"I don't want to try and be 18 anymore. I like singing now, I'm as excited now as I was when I came [to New Zealand] last time.

"I'm sure the audience will see that we - the big band and I - are friends and almost a family when we're on tour. We'll try and do something that will make it look as though I'm 18, but I'm not."

Cliff has been researching how best to reach 100, explaining: "I've just been reading a book I bought, hundreds of ways of getting to 100. It mentions apples and celery juice and things like that."

He follows a Blood Type diet, meaning he can't eat "dairy or wheat, red meat, crustaceans, mangoes, papayas, bananas, potatoes, tomatoes or aubergines."