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

I don't understand being devastated at the death of someone you don't know. Is there something missing in me?

Maybe I’m just cold, but I don’t really feel that bad when people lose their grandparents either (unless they were more like a parent to them).

That's more than just cold.

No not at all, I think maybe shocked rather than devastated.

Victoria Wood, I felt as though I had lost a friend.
Similar age, northern and I had the joy of seeing her live many times.

George Michael was a terrible loss of a tremendous talent and kind soul.

I was devastated when Jade Goody died. The grotesque coverage and fly on the wall suffering was terrible to watch and hard to avoid. The pictures of her little boys and accounts of how desperate she was to provide for them. It still makes me sad ro think of. A desperate and sad end.

I was upset over the deaths of Bowie, the Queen, and many others but it was the death of Princess Diana that really knocked me for six. I flew into Heathrow from Geneva on a business trip the morning of her death and people on the flight were crying, as I did earlier. It was a very sad week.

For me, with Olivia Newton John, it was because she was a constant in my teen years, as it was the start of her career in my formative years, a kind of virtual elder sister, so I literally grew up with her as she appeared more and more on tv, interviews in teen music magazines, etc., hers was the first record I bought, listened constantly to her albums when broke up with first boyfriend, etc. Met her in person once in a department store. It was all a lot more personal than some star on tv.

Heath Ledger & Amy Winehouse

More recently, Ray Stevenson (Titus Pullo from Rome) - not a massive celebrity but one of my personal favourites.

Bobby Robson and John Thaw.

Both still make me sad. When we saw John Thaw in the mirror of the car in Endeavour, it really choked me!

And the deaths of Robert, and then William, just make it worse. I can't imagine how the Dunlop mothers feel.

Pete Postlethwaite
Lemmy from Motorhead
Paul O Grady
Sean Lock
George Michael
And most of the ones other posters have mentioned too

Maggie Smith

I think it's a bit different if you met someone in person.

My first tape was Kylie, but I'm not even a fan really now.

Can't we just have a thread talking about celebrities that touched our lives without holier than thou posters coming on saying they don't understand why someone could be affected by the death of someone they didn't personally know. Or telling us who we're allowed to be fans of? It's so not in the spirit of the thread.

Mine is Doris Day. I grew up with her films and always thought I'd get to meet her one day. I know she was in her 90s so it wasn't unexpected. But it still devastated me. There are others but most have already been mentioned.

These are the 2 I was going to pick mainly because I thought there was probably some more great stuff to come from them whereas most of the others I really liked (e.g. Bowie) had either retired or already peaked long ago

The Queen for me.

I promise I'm not being glib - Keith Chegwin. I grew up with Swap Shop/Big Breakfast. He always made me smile!

None of them... I didn't know any of them!

In hindsight, because she died when I was a child, Sandy Denny. Such a massive talent who just couldn't handle her insecurities. She had a baby my age at the time.
Also, Terry Wigan. Part of the background of my life. I listened into my own adult life. Felt so bereft when he died.

Patrick Swayze. Not even like I was a specific fan, but he was such a sexy and masculine dancer and had a definite something. And he wasn’t that old. I was surprised by how sad I was about it.

George Micheal is the only one I cried for

Defo John Lennon for me. I was 12. It was the first one I "got" and even all these decades later, the fact that he was shot in cold blood is horrific.
David Bowie cos it came outof know where for me and his music had sustained me through highs and lows.

Micheal Moseley- taught me to care about myself and crucially how.
Steve Irwin- inspiration and taught me to respect the environment.
Robin Williams- importance of emotions
Victoria Wood- importance of laughter
Alan Rickman- just wonderful

I am dreading the day David Attenborough goes

I agree.

The only ones I really grieved were David Bowie and Prince.

George Michael was sad, too, but it didn’t feel like a personal loss.

2016 was a terrible year.