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Celebrity deaths that shocked you

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OneCosyCrow · 30/06/2025 17:30

Which celebrity’s death do you feel shocked at?

I would probably say Robin Williams. Which is probably an obvious one. George Micheal and Bowie also.

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Chimney24 · 30/06/2025 19:46

Christina Grimmie
Not as well known but I feel like I was in a state of shock for days after I woke up and saw the news of her murder. Honestly unfathomable how it happened.

Redlocks30 · 30/06/2025 19:50

Kimwestonhelpless · 30/06/2025 19:31

Sting.. Human traffic movie 90 s rave scene.😁

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SameDayNewName · 30/06/2025 19:51

Michael Mosley 😭

pigsDOfly · 30/06/2025 19:57

Long time ago, but I was really saddened and shocked by Freddy Mercury's death.

So many young men were being taken down by this awful illness that we were hearing about.

It was just so sad and there was, at the time, nothing in the medical arsenal to fight it with.

lemonraspberry · 30/06/2025 19:58

Helen mcCrory

AlphabetBird · 30/06/2025 20:00

Liam Payne made me so sad as I hadn’t realised how very young he was.

realsavagelike · 30/06/2025 20:01

Layne Staley. Not at all shocked or surprised but very, very sad. One in a million talent.

thenightsky · 30/06/2025 20:05

Darius Campbell. I saw him several times in West End musicals, and met him once very briefly as he was getting his lunch next to The Savoy (where he was performing in Funny Girl with Sheridan Smith). A nicer, politer (and handsome) bloke you couldn't wish to meet.

OMG, I didn't know he died! I remember on one of the very first reality Simon Cowell programmes. BGT, Pop idol or something. He got a lot of stick, but I thought he had a lovely voice.

PulchritudinousLycanthrope · 30/06/2025 20:07

I was awake when Princess Diana was killed because I was getting a puppy the next day and I was so excited.

I nearly fell over when Dermot announced that she had died.

Other than that, Robin Williams, Victoria Wood and I loved the comedian Jethro. I was gutted when he died and I cried all the way through his online funeral from Truro Cathedral.

ElizaMulvil · 30/06/2025 20:09

John Lennon, Jo Cox, Michael Mosley

LetsGoFlyAKiteee · 30/06/2025 20:10

Sean Locke. I remember people commenting on how he looked during his last few tv appearances but dont think it clicked with anyone how ill he had been until he had passed.

Gianluca Vialli. Such a humble guy! Great manager and player for Chelsea and hearing how he was cancer free only for it to come back.. so sad.

AlwaysTheRenegade · 30/06/2025 20:10

Peaches Geldof

NewGoldFox · 30/06/2025 20:12

Redlocks30 · 30/06/2025 17:50

It’s sad, but I think a lot of people forget she battered her partner. I wonder if everyone would have been just as sad if it was her partner battering her and he died. I feel sorry for her family but she should’ve gone to prison.

It is sad she took her own life but didn't she hit him round the head so hard he was covered in blood and rang the police thinking she was trying to kill him? She was charged with and going to be prosecuted for assault.

Also pretty creepy dating a seventeen year old when you’re thirty two.

MrsDoylesLastTeabag · 30/06/2025 20:15

Freddie Mercury
Charlotte Coleman
Caroline Aherne.
All gone long before their time and brimming with talent.

Efrogwraig · 30/06/2025 20:16

Marvin Gaye.

Horses7 · 30/06/2025 20:16

Caroline Flack - I was really shocked and saddened.
Robin Williams so talented but so unhappy.
Diana - almost unbelievable.

NameChangedOfc · 30/06/2025 20:16

Heath Ledger.
And Brittany Murphy.

Very sad.

NewGoldFox · 30/06/2025 20:16

Sean Locke - carrot in the box was so good. Sad I will never see him live. Watched his dvds so many times when my son was a baby.

BunnyLake · 30/06/2025 20:20

harpytohelp · 30/06/2025 17:37

Chester Bennington.
Still not over it.

Back in the day… River Phoenix.

Me too! It’s not the same without him.(Chester)

Shocked because they were out of the blue and made me go wtf!
Marc Bolan
Princess Diana
Caron Keating
Caroline Flack
Elvis Presley
George Michael
Alan Rickman

User2488898 · 30/06/2025 20:22

Kurt Cobain
Princess Diana
Jill Dando

Gooodgrief · 30/06/2025 20:22

DrowningInSyrup · 30/06/2025 19:35

I'm shocked people care that he did, therefore his death shocked me.

I didn't realise he was convicted of anything. I thought he was acquited. I need to keep up with the news clearly!

SeriaMau · 30/06/2025 20:23

Gandhi.

Mencia · 30/06/2025 20:23

River Phoenix

boredaf · 30/06/2025 20:27

I was shocked about fatman scoop, he collapsed on stage mid performance and CPR was performed on the scene. He was rushed to hospital but unfortunately passed away soon after. Very sad and tragic way to go.

Dontlletmedownbruce · 30/06/2025 20:27

Sinead O'Connor. Still sad to think of it

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