Rock School's Lil' Chris dies aged 24

Singer famed for his single Checkin’ It Out and appearance in Gene Simmons’s rock-band reality show has died Lil’ Chris, the 24-year-old singer who first appeared on Gene Simmons’s reality-TV show Rock School in 2006, has died. While the cause of his death has not yet been confirmed, friends and fans have been paying tribute to the Suffolk-born singer, including Harry Judd of McFly, whom Lil’ Chris supported during the pop-punk group’s Up Close and Personal tour. Shocked and saddened