Who is your ‘diana’

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Just reading the Diana thread

Who is your celebrity that you will mourn..

Mine is Meat Loaf, Paul Weller and Bob Dylan

I will genuinely cry when they die.

I have no Diana in my life. I always think it’s sad when people pass early. The Queen is in her 90s. I think it will be more of an historic event when she does and a day off work.

Although not a celebrity per se, I was so upset with Jo Cox was murdered. I think just the circumstances and the fact she was so young and full of life.

I cried and still miss Carrie Fisher. She was such a big part of my childhood and as someone with mental health I really felt I understood her.

I'll be devastated when Mark Hamill goes. And David Attenborough.

I also think - and this is just my own personal opinion - that the way Chester and Chris died made it so much harder. Mental health is such a fragile thing, and knowing that someone has got to the point of such darkness is actually very upsetting.

Prince and George Michael were also a bit of a shock, maybe Prince more so, as he was my first ever 'proper' gig almost 30 years ago, and he was such a showman on stage and had great charisma. I do actually wish I'd seen GM live, as I think that would've been a lot of fun!

David Gilmour, John Lydon, Billy Joel, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Pete Townshend, Roger Daltrey, Nick Cave.

Freddie, George and Prince.

Nothing can top those shockers.
George's death completely ruined Christmas for me, tres apt!

Bob Dylan will be a huge one for me. I've actually sat myself down and had an internal conversation about how I will react.

@NigesFakeWalkingStick yes the Jo Cox murder really affected me, I felt so so sad for her children. We live very close to where it happened, my children's school was actually put on lockdown we are that close. To think that something so so awful had happened somewhere I walked past every day. I still think of her and her family when we go past.

The only celebrate I even felt proper grief for their passing was Terry Pratchett.

I'll be a bit sad when Billy Connolly and Eddie Izzard go.

Oh, I've just thought of one that did upset me — Desmond Carrington. His Radio 2 show was on at 7 pm on a Friday, and my dad used to work away during the week and would drive back listening to it, and we'd have it on at home as he'd come in during it.

Then I went to university and was horribly homesick, but listening to it did help. I wish I'd texted/e-mailed in to say that. I did cry a bit at his last ever show, then was upset when he died not that long after.

I was truly upset when Victoria Wood died.
The Queen and David attenborough will really upset me.

I can't think of anyone in particular nowadays. Even David Attenborough, he's had such a productive life over so many years, and there are other people who can take up his baton.

Terry Pratchett is the one I really miss - he died too young, and with so many stories untold. I've seen something written like 'a whole universe now beyond reach'. I felt a bit like that with Douglas Adams, but his work wasn't as joyful (too much casually destroying the whole earth!)

I surprised myself at how upset I was when Seamus Heaney died. I'm a poetry geek and had been reading his collections as they came out all my adult life. I was so sad that there wouldn't be another.

I'm not looking forward to Stevie Wonder. Music of my Mind has been my favourite cheer up album for two decades and I know it will never be the same once he's gone.

Stoorie that’s exactly how I feel about Morrissey, too!

I don’t usually get more than a brief, passing sadness by famous people dying, but will be so sad when David Attenborough dies. There’s no one like him.

And when he has gone, there’s no one to replace him.

David Attenborough is irreplaceable imo

Mine has gone - George Michael

I cried when Terry Pratchett died, and still do if I think about it too much or read about him.

My main one though will be Dave Grohl. I honestly dread him dying.

Prince Philip and the Queen will be a big deal

prampushingdownthehighstreet definitely Keith! He has such a wonderful smile and always seems such a joyful man.

Terry Wogan (mind I cried like a baby when he left his breakfast show ) I remember listening to him with DM when I was a child, then him being in the background for all the ups and downs in my adult life. Still miss him.

Think it will be strange when the following die
The Queen (and Prince Philip)
David Attenborough
David Jason

Will also be sad about
Judi Dench
Maggie Smith

Dolly Parton is mine. Also the Obama's. I was upset when Caroline Aherne died but she was a friend of my mum's.

sinisterbumfacedcat recoils in horror

I was shocked at how hard David Bowie’s death hit me. Possibly because of the timing, his new album had just come out and it was so raw and obvious and incredible once you knew how sick he had been while making it.

Mark owen (take that),my first love.
I do cry when i hear anyone famous that i like die tho ,steven from boyzone was a real shock still chokes me up now.

I had a bit of a crush on Heath Ledger, I didn't cry my eyes out but I was very sad when he died.

My mum is about the only person I know who can remember singing 'God Save The King' rather than 'God Save The Queen'. That's going to be an enormous upset for the whole country.

Any of the remaining Pythons will hit hard.
Also Brian Blessed.

I've been surprised by my reactions to some deaths - Carrie Fisher upset me a lot more than I was expecting. Rik Mayall too.

I'm sure others will sadden me too that I'm not expecting.