Have you ever been greatly saddened by the passing of a celebrity/well known person?

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As sad as it is with anyone passing away I can’t recall many celebrity deaths ever having any lasting impact on me, except for two.

For me, it was the death of Terry Wogan.

I suppose it was mainly because I grew up with him as a constant in the background, mum always had him playing and when I became an adult I automatically carried that on. He had me in stitches and he had the most perfect voice and personality for radio.

I bawled my eyes out when he passed away and I still miss his shows.

As I say, I really don’t get sentimental over such things but the passing of Terry Wogan and my first love, George Michael really did hit me hard when they went.

Who are you to tell people how they feel?

I don't know that I've ever cried but some hit harder than others.

Matthew Perry

Stephen Gately - I didn't even like Boyzone but I'd just lost by own best friend and I really felt for the rest of the group. Got the impression they put themselves out there a little so the media would leave the family in peace.

Gay Byrne - as others have said, he was just always there.

Naya Rivera as someone said upthread, the way she died was so tragic. Her poor little boy.

Not a death, but the realisation of the seriousness of Michael Schumacher's injury was awful.

Just posted the same thing.

Rick Parfitt from Status Quo… not a massive surprise as he’d had poor health for a fair while, but he always bounced back.
When it was announced (Christmas Eve) it was a shock. We had followed the Quo for many years, many gigs… and now it was over. Such a shame, nice guy, always stopped to chat.
RIP Rick 🎸

Maybe seems strange but anytime I hear Whitney Houston on the radio I always feel so sad about her daughter dying. Just seems like a double tragedy. She was only 22.

Caroline Flack hit me hard - I think because I was a big Love Island fan so felt very familiar with her, her voice, her personality. She was always so bubbly so to see she had ended her own life was difficult to comprehend.

I was also very sad about Paul O'Grady, I felt genuinely sad that we wouldn't be seeing him on TV anymore as I really enjoyed his work.

Often I think, 'Oh, I thought he/she was dead already'

The one that got to me was David Cameron's son Ivan, but I was going through a rough patch and was emotional already.

Freddie Mercury. So tragically close to not needing to die and such a huge loss to music.
Ayrton Senna. 1 was devastated by his loss .
Rik Mayall . The beautiful bastard.

I'm not usually really that affected to be honest, beyond feeling that it's a shame when people die too young. The only one that really got to me was Terry Pratchett because he was such an amazing author, seemed such a solid person, and his books had been massive in my life from about age 10. Just rhe feeling that ill never ever get to read a new discworld book made me feel very flat. Reading his latter books I can almost sense him tying off loose ends as he goes knowing there's not much time left to do so. My DH (also a big fan) refuses to read the last book as then there is no more TP books for him either. Just very very sad!

Maybe try to understand experiences outside your own scope. Sometimes the death of a famous person strikes a chord with someone at a difficult time in their life. Or all the media focus on the work of the person who has died reminds them of someone or something. Princess Diana's death affected me (even though I had zero interest in her) because I was still grieving for my sister. Just the fact that she was young and female and it was sudden was enough to make me react in a way I wasn't expecting.

Paul O'Grady,
I had just come round from being in a coma for eight weeks, I couldn't sleep without the TV or lights on for fear of dying and I remember the 6am news came on, still coming in and out of consciousness myself - I was quite tearful, but I don't know if that was genuine sadness from all the sedation.
Also - Barbara Windsor - I cannot believe I haven't seen her name crop up yet

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I didn't.
I said they need help if their feelings about someone they have never met cause those reactions.
Any particular reason why my post has been singled out from all the others on the thread saying exactly the same thing?
Are you one of the people who start those mawkish threads?

Though a quick AS shows you telling me not to tell people how to feel is a bit glass houses seeing as you seem to be constantly telling people on here how wrong they are.

I'm normally a 'oh that's sad' type of person but when I woke up to hear Steve Irwin had died it completely knocked me for six. Don't know why, didn't watch his programmes, I'm not australian. Had only recently returned to work full time after illness though.

ended up having the day off work because I couldn't shake the gloom. Fine next day

still don't understand it.

I was shocked at Peaches Geldof passing because she was so young and it was all so damn tragic.

Do the people who would never cry at a celeb and can't imagine why people would... has it occurred to you that sometimes the people who do are just big criers generally?

I can be brought to tears by children singing nicely at an assembly. By a sad advert. By an extremely happy moment in a TV show.

I don't think I've done huge sobs at a celeb pass, but I've certainly been moved by some of them. I think that's okay.

John Lennon
David Bowie
Victoria Wood

Matthew Perry.

Friends got me through a truly awful time in my life and at times seemed the only good thing happening in it. I think I'd have felt the same whichever of the 6 died first really.

I've not been able to watch an episode since, and I used to watch it all the time.

I really didn't understand the deep grief some people seem to feel for people they don't really know. (Unless it's something particularly awful such as the murder of a child). The grief shown for the Queen and Princess Diana was really strange. Princess Diana's death was sad though as it was unexpected but the over the top response from some people seemed strange to me.

I think sometimes the famous person's death becomes a conduit for people's personal grief, a sort of catharsis.

Freddie Mercury and Rik Mayall for me. Maybe because they seemed too young and should have been producing more fab work.

Yes, I cried when Stephen Gately from Boyzone died as I loved him when I was about 14 and Boyzone were one of my favourite groups when I was a teenager, also Darius from Pop Idol as I met him in 2003 and his fansite was the very first Internet forum I joined and met lifelong friends online

Chester Bennington and Matthew Perry

No but David Attenborough might be the sad one for me

(when it happens not yet)

Rik Mayall and David Bowie