What celebrity deaths are you devastated about

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Liam Payne for me I’ve loved one direction since I was 4 years old

Stephen Gately was a big one for me at the time.

Amy Winehouse.

All celebrities who die young as it’s a public reminder of how quickly it can all end.

RIP to all of them.

George Michael just a beautiful man all round
Queen Elizabeth

Lennon was vile. A drug user who abused his wife. No loss.

Chris Cornell
Dolores O’Riordan

both so young and talented. So sad

I think “devastated” would be a bit strong; in my mind that’s for families and people who you know, but I still mourn the loss of Terry Pratchett. Such a mind, and such an imagination. I miss the stories he could have told.

I find it sad when authors die young (ish) as there will be books and stories that won't exist, that would have done and if they write about their illness, it's always so poignant - a sense they just got even better at writing in time to do nothing with it.

I was particularly sad about Iain Banks and Hilary Mantell.

Yes, I felt the same. I think it's one of those moments in history where people always remember what they were doing and where they were when they found out, like J F Kennedy's assassination.

The time between Princess Diana's death and her funeral seemed to go so slow.

Oh yes and Peaches Geldof. Because everyone thought she was in recovery and she was the poster woman for attachment parenting and yet behind closed doors was clearly struggling and not living the life she was portraying to the public. How her son was found with his mums body too 😢

Devastated is a pretty catastrophic word for someone I have never met. You can be sad or upset but devastated is too far.

Rik Mayall
Sean Lock
Terry Hall

I loved them all so much. And they were too young.

Not devastated,by anyone other than my late DM. Unbelievably upset about Michael Mosley, I use a lot of his mantra, what a waste....silly man! The late queen,my late father and oldest DD met her.. she was very human with a dry sense of humour.

Steve Irwin

Mine isn't actually dead yet but I'm dreading Stephen King dying. I adore his writing and will miss new releases when he's gone. His son is an excellent writer with a similar style but sadly he's nowhere near as prolific in terms of output as his dad.

The ones that hit the hardest were David Bowie and Tony Benn. Also sad about David Lynch.

Also, very upset about Paul O'Grady.

And David Bowie wasn’t much better

Actually as a kid Kurt Cobain and River Phoenix.

Also Rik Mayall and Spike Milligan.

Amy Winehouse was the one that affected me most. I was a huge fan, she is still the best singer I’ve ever seen live and it felt like such a tragic waste of potential. I was the same age as her and worked near where she lived so I guess I felt some kind of connection, however silly that might sound.

Sean Lock as well, my favourite comedian and he reminded me so much of my dad who died a few years before Sean.

Sarah Harding
Stephen Gateley

I was sad when Leonard Cohen died but he was in his 80s so not devastating.

Oh that's sad, I grew up watching him too.. I didn't know. Seemed to be getting his life back on track too

I was also upset about Iain Banks and Hilary Mantrl. Iain Banks is from my town and I met him a few times. He was a lovely man and I enjoyed his work. I still have a book of his that he autographed for me in the Science Fiction bookshop in Edinburgh in 1989!

Recent sad about Michael Mosley.

A PP above is dreading the loss of Stephen King… I’m the same about David Attenborough!

I watched harry potter recently and realised how many were gone now, it's a lot. So that was sad.

Whitney Houston
George Michael
Princess Diana

What made it harder for me with Princess Di was that I was living in Paris at the time of her death, so the shock of hearing about it on the radio in French was unreal! I actually thought I had misheard or misunderstood the newsreader 😞

Paul o’Grady, he was just a joy.
Matthew Perry, a comedic icon, both such terribly sad deaths.

Alan Rickman
Chester Bennington
River Phoenix