HEATH LEDGER - RIP

HAS there ever been a case of a movie star falling so far so quickly after reaching the heights that life has to offer?

The Australian star Heath Ledger and Michelle Williams, the mother of his daughter Matilda, were both Oscar nominated for Brokeback Mountain in 2006 having originally met on the set of the film.

Yet, just two years later, he was to die in January of this year from an overdose of drugs.

Brokeback Mountain is being premiered at 9pm on Channel 4 tonight, followed by Candy (2006), the tempestuous relationship between two young heroin addicts played by Ledger and Abbie Cornish - last seen in Elizabeth: The Golden Age and opposite Ryan Phyllippe in Stop-Loss.

If you haven't seen Brokeback don't miss it. Young Heath could have been one of the world's top ten stars for decades.