{"id":472190,"date":"2011-08-05T08:18:13","date_gmt":"2011-08-05T08:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/08\/05\/grease-dance-rival-cha-cha-dies\/"},"modified":"2011-08-05T08:18:13","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T08:18:13","slug":"grease-dance-rival-cha-cha-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/08\/05\/grease-dance-rival-cha-cha-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"Grease dance rival Cha Cha dies"},"content":{"rendered":"

5 August 2011<\/span> Last updated at<\/span> 04:18 ET<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Actress Annette Charles, who played Cha Cha DiGregorio, in the hit film Grease, has died at the age of 63.<\/p>\n

The actress, who also starred in TV series Gunsmoke and The Bionic Woman, was suffering from cancer.<\/p>\n

As Cha Cha, she memorably stole the limelight dancing the hand jive with Danny (John Travolta) at the school dance competition.<\/p>\n

She continued acting into the late eighties, but latterly moved into teaching near her home in California.<\/p>\n

According to reports, she had only recently been diagnosed with cancer – and died from complications linked to the disease.<\/p>\n

A family member told US website TMZ: “Annette had recently started having difficulty breathing and when she went to the doctor she learned that she had a cancerous tumour in one of her lungs.”<\/p>\n

She died in Los Angeles on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Her death comes two months after Jeff Conaway, who played Kenickie in the hit 1978 musical, passed away.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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