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

515 replies

OneUmberJoker · 13/11/2025 19:53

Gary speed

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CatMummyOf3 · 14/11/2025 21:40

George Michael
Freddie Mercury

Bubbles90 · 14/11/2025 22:01

David Bowie and Alan Rickman.

Anabellie · 14/11/2025 22:34

Caroline Aherne
Cameron Boyce
Keith Chegwin
Ronnie Corbett
Steve Irwin
Michael Jackson
Angela Lansbury
Sean Lock
Lisa ‘Left Eye’ Lopes
George Michael
Eric Morecombe
Michael Mosley
Nicholas R. Oleson
Tara Palmer-Tomkinson
Prince
John Smith
Patrick Swayze
John Thaw
Robin Williams
Victoria Wood

MarchingOnTogether · 14/11/2025 22:44

OneUmberJoker · 13/11/2025 19:53

Gary speed

Yeah this hit me hard, was my absolute hero as a kid.

Daisypp · 14/11/2025 23:08

Leonard Cohen

Gingercat86 · 14/11/2025 23:35

Rik Mayall - I always had a huge crush on him and he died on my sons birthday - always makes me sad

70isaLimitNotaTarget · 14/11/2025 23:40

The Voice - Ray Brooks
Died in August - if you hear him you;ll know him, it's like molasses when he talks .

Shboogiebop · 14/11/2025 23:48

Prince 💜💜💜

starshineangelxx · 14/11/2025 23:58

This question is incorrect any life is sad when its ended

DannyOD · 15/11/2025 00:29

Rik Mayall and Robin Williams

skippy67 · 15/11/2025 00:31

starshineangelxx · 14/11/2025 23:58

This question is incorrect any life is sad when its ended

Bollocks.

SpigTheFish · 15/11/2025 00:36

George Michael

Robin Williams

Both stuck me as incredibly sad, sensitive people.

greenbuckets · 15/11/2025 00:41

There's nobody I haven't 'got over', but a sad one for me was Caroline Aherne. I think she'd have given us so much more brilliant comedy.

SquareEyedSue · 15/11/2025 00:51

Cattenberg · 14/11/2025 00:19

Kirsty McColl, as so many others have said. I still find it moving to hear her music at Christmas, around the same time of year that she died. I think of how young and talented she was, how she died saving one of her sons, and how her family still haven't seen justice done and probably never will.

Her death was so unfair. Tragic.

maxslice · 15/11/2025 01:10

Alan Rickman
Peter O’Toole
Robin Williams
Maggie Smith

Nobodytouchmywine · 15/11/2025 01:21

Caroline Aherne. So very sad 😢

Soppydawg · 15/11/2025 01:24

George Michael - Too young , sounds like he was a really generous and kind soul, I wanted to hear that voice lots more ❤️

Soppydawg · 15/11/2025 01:28

Maggie Smith

CuboidRectangle · 15/11/2025 01:44

The deaths of notable figures that really hit me and upset me for a good while afterwards were:
Terry Pratchett.
Michelle Trachtenberg.
QEII.

gandeysflipflop · 15/11/2025 02:07

Our news reader in the granada region on granada reports Tony Morris. wasnt even aware he'd been ill when they made the shock announcement he'd passed away.
Still miss him on granada reports.

SassyCow · 15/11/2025 03:03

Freddie Mercury,
Caroline Flack,
Kurt Cobain,
Chester Bennington,
Princess Diana,
Jade Goody,
Sarah Harding,
Meat Loaf,
Paul Walker

DottyDaxie · 15/11/2025 08:21

Avicii
Caroline Aherne

DottyDaxie · 15/11/2025 08:21

Avicii
Caroline Aherne

MiddleChildX · 15/11/2025 08:59

starshineangelxx · 14/11/2025 23:58

This question is incorrect any life is sad when its ended

Nope.
Saville? Thatcher? Shipman?
The world is a better place without some people.

Sharingmythoughts · 15/11/2025 09:09

Prince
George Michael

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