Rory Sykes, a former child star with cerebral palsy who starred in the British television series “Kiddy Kapers” in the 1990s,
Perished in Wednesday’s deadly wildfires in Los Angeles. His age was thirty-two. Shelley Sykes, his mother, posted on social media on Thursday, saying,
“It is with great sadness that I have to announce the death of my beautiful son @Rorysykes to the Malibu fires yesterday.” “I am completely devastated [sic].”
The presenter of “Kiddy Kapers,” Shelley, said that he passed away in his cottage on the family’s 17-acre Malibu estate after.
She “couldn’t put out the cinders on his roof with a hose” because Las Virgenes Municipal Water had turned off the water.