BRITAIN'S Got Talent star Antonio 'Popeye' Francis has died aged 54, according to national reports.

The 2011 semi-finalist shot to fame with his bizarre routine which saw him pop his eyeballs out to the beat of music.

It is understood he passed away on Saturday after suffering a stroke.

His son Dan Francis, who also appeared on the STV show, told The Sun: “A week ago a family friend found him in his room on the floor unconscious where he had a stroke.

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“What’s crazy is he was there for at least six days so he’d survived for at least six days before we got him into the hospital and for the first two days he was breathing by himself.

“This morning we woke up and I saw him take his last breath and then he stopped breathing.”

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Antonio 'Popeye' Francis

The family is now raising funds to hold a funeral for the performer in Barbados, where he lived previously.

Dan, who followed in his father's footsteps with band Luminites in 2013, added: “Over the last 10 years he’s been in and out of hospital 90 per cent of the time.

“He was back and forth from Barbados where he was staying with out grandma and he started losing his memory.

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“He randomly came back to London, we didn’t know why because he had nowhere to stay so he started sleeping rough.

“We found out he was sleeping on buses at night and staying round friends houses and travelling up and down the country.

“We didn’t really know what was wrong, because he wouldn’t tell us, plus he was losing his memory.

“We managed to get him a temporary place in Harlow.”

A fundraising page has been set up in a bid to raise £5,000.