Celebrity deaths

[miaherridge2007]

What celebrity death did you thought it was a hoax when you first heard it

Mine Is Liam Payne I thought it weren’t real when I heard it and I still can’t believe it

Liam Paynes death really affected me too. I get sad every time I think of it or hear one of their One Direction songs.

Peaches Geldof was awful.

Princess Diana. Thought my boyfriend (now DH) was playing tricks on me, until I turned on the TV.

Michael Jackson was the other one.

A friend texted 'Michael Jackson's dead'. I almost replied 'is that the punchline to a joke?'

Definitely Princess Diana came from absolutely nowhere

i was upset by the death of Amy Winehouse even though her issues were well documented

Not a hoax, but the news of Jill Dando's murder seemed unbelievable.

Shootings were rare, and a shooting in broad daylight even more so. Yet, she was gunned down on her doorstep. Tragic.

I couldn't believe it when Prince died, so soon after David Bowie. It started to feel personal.

John Lennon. I happened to be listening to an Abbey Road special on the radio and when they interrupted to announce he’d been shot I thought it was some sort of sick joke, akin to all those ‘Paul is dead’ rumours.

With Diana, when I turned on the radio that Sunday morning and heard sombre music and “news from the palace…” o assumed the Queen Mother until my flatmate came in. He’d been out all night (those were the days!) and had heard as the news broke.

I had not long qualified as a nurse and was still in bed as I was on a late shift yesterday afternoon when mum came into to tell me.

I’ve never thought a death was a hoax!

I was most shocked my Amy Winehouse and Peaches Geldof. I think mainly because I was a young woman in my 20s when they died, and they were a similar age to me.

I was a child when princess Diana died and thought she was fairly old (maybe early 50s). Now that I’m older I’m shocked to realise that she was only 36.

Peaches Geldof was shocking to me because she was only a year older than me and I was part of that whole "indie" scene. Princess Diana I was 6 coming up 7 and didn't find out until I put cartoons on on the Sunday morning and saw an announcement at the bottom of the screen to turn on the news.

I’m not sure I recall thinking any were a hoax.

My earliest recollection of one which was shocking was River Phoenix. I was in my early teens. He was young. Half my friends had posters of him on their walls torn out of magazine [does that even happen these days?]. Drugs were a mystical thing. And the 911 call recording had been played on the radio and someone managed to record it on a cassette which was then passed around and played on Walkmans. Friends were in tears.

Closest to the bone was Sarah Everard. I lived close to that part of London through my 20s. There but for the grace of God…

(Sorry, I forgot the the thread was about celebs and my mind wandered).

You’ve asked what celebrity death I thought was a hoax- zero. Why would I think that? Which death affected me. That’s a different question- George Michael.

Avicii - only 28 years old, haunting
Robin Williams - I didn't want to believe it
Gary Speed

Nikki Graham - shocking and tragic
Eric Dane, most recently

Princess Diana. I had been out the night before and someone had actually said to me in a bar towards the end of the evening "Princess Diana's been shot" (I mean she wasn't, but he had the right idea) but having consumed rather a lot of booze I instantly forgot this and when I woke up the next morning and a friend who was staying over told me she had died I didn't believe him until I turned on the TV.

Hoax? Why would you think that? What hoax deaths have you experienced?

Jeremy Beadle

No way you are getting me with that Game for a Laugh nonsense.