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Bubbles won’t be at Michael Jackson’s funeral

Producer Quincy Jones is also missing service

Michael infamously kept a monkey named Bubbles as a pet

Michael Jackson’s chimp Bubbles will not be present when the singer is laid to rest.

He will spend the day listening to flute music at a Florida animal sanctuary 3,000 miles away. 

‘It is sad for Bubbles but it is better that he stays here,’ a spokesman for the Centre For Great Apes tells The Sun. ‘Maybe we’ll mark the occasion another way.’

Bubbles is yet to be told the news that Michael, who adopted him in 1985, is dead. 

Quincy Jones, who worked on the singer's Thriller, Off The Wall and Bad albums, will also miss the service.

The producer, 76, has instead flown to Amsterdam to grieve in private.

‘I won’t go to any more funerals as long as I live,’ he says.

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