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Name a celebrity death you still haven't gotten over?

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OneUmberJoker · 13/11/2025 19:53

Gary speed

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Gansy · 13/11/2025 22:51

Keith Flint from the Prodigy. I thought he’d a lovely heart.

AA Gill. I absolutely loved his snotty reviews. I miss him. In his very last column, be basically gave a review of the state of healthcare in UK - and gratitude to the NHS. I think of it often.

Gill ended the article by recalling a conversation he had had with a cancer nurse. “(She said) ‘You’re supposed to be with me down in chemotherapy. I saw your name. Why are you up here?’,” he wrote.
“‘Well, it turns out the chemo isn’t working.’ Her shoulders sag and her hand goes to her head. ‘F, f, that’s dreadful.’ I think she might be crying. “I look away, so might I. You don’t get that with private healthcare.”

Snazzysausage · 13/11/2025 22:52

Oh and Terry Wogan
still miss the brilliant Janet and John skits.

Reduxrabbit · 13/11/2025 22:53

Iain M Banks, so sad there are no more Culture novels, talent gone far too soon.

RaisinRainbow · 13/11/2025 22:54

Steve Wright the DJ and Prince

BizzyLizzyDooDah · 13/11/2025 22:55

SpottyAardvark · 13/11/2025 20:32

I don’t grieve the deaths of people I never met. To do so seems at best to be disrespectful to their actual loved ones. And at worst to be cynical attention-seeking or empty insincere virtue-signalling.

That said, it’s always saddening to see people whose talents or work you admire taken before their time. Ayrton Senna & George Michael being obvious examples.

FFS 🙄

There's always one!!

SilenceInside · 13/11/2025 22:57

henlake7 · 13/11/2025 22:20

Anton Yelchin. Such a tragic accident and at such a young age.

Yes, I enjoyed every film I’ve seen that he was in. It was such a moment of bad luck, a moment here or there and nothing would have become of it at all.

SoftBalletShoes · 13/11/2025 22:58

CommanderTaggart · 13/11/2025 22:26

You know what’s weird? Thinking about long-dead people who, in another world, could have still been with us today.

Martin Luther King would be 99, the same age as Sir David Attenborough.
James Dean would be 94.
Elvis would have turned 90.
John Lennon - 85.
Jimmy Hendrix would be 82.
Princess Diana would be 64.
Whitney Houston would be 62.
Heath Ledger would be 46 and Amy Winehouse would be just 42.

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Wow! That IS weird to think.

Diana has been gone for so very many years and yet she would only be 64 today, which isn't old at all. Just goes to show how young she was.

ItsFridayIminLoveJS · 13/11/2025 22:59

George Michael.
My favourite artist of all time.
He would still be making great music.

Blogswife · 13/11/2025 22:59

George Michael

Giggorata · 13/11/2025 23:06

About sixteen of mine have already been mentioned, so I will just add Lex Giggerof, Rutger Hauer and Jack Bruce.

Kevinbaconsrealwife · 13/11/2025 23:09

Marchintospring · 13/11/2025 21:41

I thought the timing summed him up. Lived and partied through the whole year up to his birthday, even with cancer and fucked off before the next year started. Absolute class.

Very true….he certainly didn’t fade away !! DH got me a signed print of his autograph and it’s framed and hanging up in our downstairs loo, so I see him several times a day 😂

GeorgeMichaelWasHere · 13/11/2025 23:09

As per my username, George Michael. I still can’t comprehend it at times. I’m so glad I got to see him live.

Victoria Wood and Matthew Perry were such sad shocks too.

ThePoshUns · 13/11/2025 23:13

George Michael

estellacandance · 13/11/2025 23:13

Stephen Gateley Bob and teen crush
Brittany Murphy so much potential lost, makes Clueless bittersweet
Kirstie Alley she tweeted me once!
River Phoenix put me off drugs for life
Shannen Doherty & Luke Perry Brenda & Dylan in heaven forever

Heylittlesongbird · 13/11/2025 23:13

John Smith. I remember I was travelling by train that day and the boards on the platforms were announcing it.
I’m not even a labour supporter, but I think he was destined to be our next Prime Minister and would have done it with integrity and strong leadership.

shiverjrteee · 13/11/2025 23:16

George Michael ,have downloaded a few Netflix documentaries about him for my long haul flight next week. I absolutely adored him and his music.

Driftingawaynow · 13/11/2025 23:19

Freddie mercury

BoringOregon · 13/11/2025 23:23

Keith Flint and Tim Bergling

FastnetLundyRockall · 13/11/2025 23:31

Terry Hall. Didn’t ever think of myself as a massive fan even, but something about his death feels really personal to this day.

Wildflowers78 · 13/11/2025 23:33

Michael Moseley. Such a tragic and unexpected ending

BoringOregon · 13/11/2025 23:35

jjeoreo · 13/11/2025 22:31

Heath Ledger. I still remember where I was - on a bus to Dalston going to a house party. Slightly undermined by my friend later mishearing me and thinking I'd said "Keith Chegwin".

Oh God, that's made me think of the CBB David Bowie/David Guest debacle.
I'd defy anyone to watch it and not find it outrageously funny, and I hope that doesn't sound unkind- takes nothing away from Bowie.
From Bowie to Guest is a similar vibe as Heath Ledger to Cheggers.

SquareEyedSue · 13/11/2025 23:42

VivaDixie · 13/11/2025 19:59

Yes so much more

Amy Winehouse
George Michael
David Bowie
Rik Mayall

All of these!

GellerYeller · 13/11/2025 23:44

Christine McVie. We saw Stevie Nicks play not long after she passed, and she sang Landslide with beautiful photos of Christine on the big screens. How she wasn’t in tears I don’t know, the rest of us were in bits.

Fionasapples · 13/11/2025 23:48

Sunshineismyfavourite · 13/11/2025 20:53

Mel Appleby from Mel & Kim. Not a huge celebrity but one of my favourite pop stars in my late teens and I was a similar age to her when she died. I was so shocked - in your early 20s you just don't think about dying. I think about her sometimes and especially when I hear one of their songs on the radio. So sad.

I remember when she was ill and just assuming she'd get better because she was young and of course the doctors would cure her!(I was young and naive). It was a shock when she died and I remember feeling so sad for her sister.

SplendiferousKnickers · 13/11/2025 23:49

70isaLimitNotaTarget · 13/11/2025 22:51

Tom Petty

Absolutely 💔

Richard Beckinsale too.