Have any famous people's deaths got to you a lot?

Sir Terry Wogan

he just seemed to always around and was always so comforting to listen to on the radio and would often think of my lovely grandparents when listening to him

I was surprised at how upset I was

Sondheim. Bowie. Kurt Cobain and River Phoenix, as a grunge teen. Douglas Adams. Victoria Wood. And the Queen obvs.

In the same vein Paul Walker . Beautiful man .

It’s the utter waste of it all. How the demons affect generations, how deeply traumatised she must have been after the loss of her mother and the tragedy that her children have lost theirs so young and with likely very little, if any, memory of her.

Olivia Newton John - I didn’t know much about her but Grease was a film I rewatched throughout my childhood. My sadness was probably more due to that.

Not a celebrity as such but the Queen's passing affected me. I'm 60 and she had just always been there. I still don't automatically think 'Camilla' when I hear 'The Queen' mentioned on tv.

Terry Hall, I grew up with his music, his sounds trigger so many memories for me. He was fantastic.

Same here 🙏

Yes, Kirsty MacColl's death really affected me.

Adam Cutler- The Wurzels

No. Not really.

Liam Payne I’ve loved one direction since I was 4 years old I’m nearly 18 now

Peaches Geldof. We were a similar age and given she had young children, one of whom was in the house along with her when she overdosed really shook me. She had been receiving methadone treatment and seemed to relapse without many people knowing. It just felt tragic.

Also Paul Sartin. I don't know how broadly famous he was, but very well known to lovers of folk music.

Paul Sartin obituary | Folk music | The Guardian

Diana
George Michael
The Queen
Caroline Flack

Caroline Flack

I felt gutted at hearing about Hilary Mantel's death last year. Still can't quite believe that she'll never write another book.

Terry Pratchett, Alan rickman and Stephen Gateley from boyzone. I had such a crush on Stephen as a teenager, and I still remember the exact day I found out. I was devastated!

Chester Bennington from Linkin Park, they were the first "proper" band I got into as a kid and their music really affected me as a teen.

And although it was years before my time-James Dean. What a gorgeous man with a bright future. My mum said she went to school the next day and all the girls were in bits crying.

Amy winehouse's death still really gets to me. I saw her about a year before she died and she was really good but I felt her pain. I was talking to DD about her the other day.

Paul O'Grady
He was such a nice, down to earth man who never forgot where he came from and never got above himself.
Patrick Swayze. Was quite a big fan, and it just really upset me!

Olivia Newton John. I never cry, but I did for ONJ, lots!

Some of my earliest memories are of her on UK weekend chat shows and variety shows (I was around 8 or 9 when she was on TV virtually every weekend), so I kind of "grew up" with her in my teens, following her music etc. She was such a beautiful person, inside and out, lovely personality, did huge amounts of good for charities, nature and animals, including setting up her own cancer wellness centre in Melbourne. She battled cancer for 20 years, whilst continuing to write and record music, continue her concerts, even doing a charity walk along the Great Wall of China with other celebrities to raise money for her wellness centre. No one ever had a bad word about her which is pretty unique in the music industry! She was universally loved.

It was obvious she was coming to the end after news of her third bout of cancer, "retiring" from doing concerts, and then in early 2022, she disappeared completely, no interviews, no webcam chats, etc, so it was clear she was struggling. But it still hit like a freight train when the news of her death was announced. I still well up when I think of her or hear some of my favourite songs of hers.

Douglas Adams.
Brilliant mind, wonderful imagination and full of humour and delight.

Nureyev for me too. I saw him dance quite a few times and met him at the stage door where he was very sweet.
His funeral with all the dancers dropping ballet shoes on his coffin was so moving.
It's really sad to think that if he and Freddie (Queen were the first band I saw in 1977) had lived a few more years they could have been treated.

It really threw me when Peaches Geldof died. I thought about it for ages, it was just so tragic and I was so upset because she seemed to have gotten her life in order and be happy.

Then I found out about how she died and I was reeling and devastated