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family told how “Tara Clare died peacefully in her sleep”.

Her close friend, TV presenter Mark Durden-Smith, admitted that acts of kindness – like she had shown to Kirsty – came very naturally to the star.

Tara knew Kirsty for more than 10 years and looked on top form as she was pictured at a bash alongside her and Dancing On Ice judge Jason Gardiner.

TV pal Mark worked with Tara on three series of the I’m A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here spin-off show – as well the 2003 Junior Eurovision Song Contest.

He told the Sunday Mirror: “She was incredibly generous, she took a few wrong turns along the way but she ultimately lived a thousand lives in one.

“However fleeting a moment you had with Tara she left the deepest of impressions because she was an extraordinary life force. She bought everyone very thoughtful presents at the end of the series. That was the kind of thing she did.”

Yesterday it emerged Tara had wept during her final interview as she told of her longing to make her family proud following years of drug abuse. Referring to a spell in rehab for her cocaine addiction, Tara said: “I’ve put them through a lot.”

The addiction led to the collapse of her nasal septum, which needed initial corrective surgery in 2006. She returned to rehab in 2011 for anxiety and depression. But her pal