Jackie Stallone, the mother of actor Sylvester Stallone, and best known to British viewers for her turn on Celebrity Big Brother, has died at the age of 98.
She is survived by sons Sylvester and Frank Stallone, and her husband Stephen Levine.
Jackie Stallone was born in Washington DC in 1921.
Stallone became a circus trapeze artist in the 1930s, and hairdresser and a nightclub chorus girl.