Could this Kirstie Allsopp be any more irritating

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Imagine posting this. Get a life Kirsty.

https://www.dailymail.com/tvshowbiz/article-15940595/Kirstie-Allsopp-rages-BAFTA-coverage-death-absolute-national-treasure-Dame-Penelope-Keith.html#comments

Passing is a perfectly normal way to describe the death of someone. If they'd said lain down with the angels then I think she'd have a point, but passing? Nah, that's just Kirstie having another rant to remind us she's still present.

This is what she is annoyed about i have taken it from Baftas X account

We're saddened to learn of the passing of Dame Penelope Keith, aged 86. A familiar face on stage and screen, Keith won a BAFTA for her iconic role in The Good Life in 1977 and another for her work in The Norman Conquests and Saving It For Albie in 1978, with a further three BAFTA nominations during her career

Kirstie was known to like a drink.

I like Kirsty and I agree with her on this. I most admire her for her crusade against litter. I hate litter too and if more people were willing to put their head above the parapet and shout about it the UK might not be the litter strewn mess it is in some places.

I like passed away.

Language evolves, words come and go

I agree with her on this, ‘passed’ and ‘the passing of’ is a twee euphemism and has only become normalised in Britain in the last 10-20 years.

But I fear that Kirstie may be trying to make it a class or ‘people like us’ issue. Basically telling BAFTA to pull their socks up, while identifying herself with PK as fellow ‘people who know how things ought to be done’. Very faux-Margot, very cringey.

I agree with Kirsty on this issue.
Our language is being ruined by sheep like copying of America, a country which is too coy to use words like death or sex but happy to shoot anyone and everyone.

She’s moved on to moaning to BA on X that she couldn’t stream the live football after paying for wifi. BA have offered to refund the wifi charge. I did wonder if the kids are still slumming it in economy 🤣. Hope they have their iPads with them or maybe she’s smashed them again!

Oh she is the gift that keeps in giving isn't she ?😂

I'm not sure that's true - passing away/passing was very much a thing when I was little back in the 70s. It's just one of the many terms we use for death that's been around for centuries.

How would this work? 99% of people hate litter and despise litterers. It's the 1% who spoil it for the rest of us. No amount of shouting about it is going to make any difference to those scumbags in the 1%.

Yes I guess it came from passing on to heaven. I remember seeing it on gravestones in the 70s.
I don't mind "loss." When dh died we did all suffer losing him from our lives.

I think ‘passing away’ is more established but the use of ‘passed’ by itself is, to my ear, very American, very recently adopted in the UK. I naturally read it in an American accent.

The other confusion is that ‘passed over to the other side’ was commonly used in the UK, IME mostly in late C20th drama and comedy referencing the early C20th. That pure woo portrayal of comedic seances taints the word ‘passed’ with something that’s either gullible or mocking.

I saw the original post on X which the DM has turned into a ridiculous clickbait article (shocker). She did not "rage".

Kirstie's follow up to people who moaned was that PK's family used the term "died" in their statement, so she felt BAFTA should have used the same terminology.

Storm in a teacup, especially as the DM are very much known for using the term "died" or "dead" in announcements about famous deaths. I don't remember any news outlet saying "Queen Elizabeth II has passed".

For what it's worth, I hate "passed" or "passed away". I think a family absolutely should choose the words they wish to use as it's personal for them, but that organisations and media should say "has died" as that's factual.

pretty much this, my mum says passed away, it might be "twee" it probably was seen as a kinder and gentler way of saying Mrs smith from no 22 has died,

She’s saying that people die. They don’t ‘pass’, ‘pass away’, or ‘shuffle off this mortal coil’ (looking at you, Shakespeare), they die.

And she is right but I don't understand why she thought it was appropriate to comment about Baftas tribute ? I know she has backtracked a little bit but why comment in the first place, when Bafta do their in Memorium at the awards ceremony, they say something along the lines of people we have "lost" this year and not died, not everything has to be literal.

You’ve nailed it. All very “phone for the fish knives, Norman”, twee & def for the “serviette” class as she sees it. Def improper & not PLU. PK a PLU & her family said she’d ‘died’ (apparently).

The link isn’t working for me. Must have been a slow news day as this is hardly worth writing about.

@LeedsLoiner I find that funny. My mother had that type of humour.
When I was given a diagnosis of the big c last year I wanted to know how long I'd got. People thought that strange. Must be my Yorkshire family.

I don’t have any thoughts on what the “proper” term is, that’s all just opinion, but using the death of a beloved actor to raise the issue publicly with BAFTA rather than writing them a private email is just about seeking attention and acting in a superior way. That’s hardly “proper” either.

I agree, i think her arrogance is appauling, not that she cares what Internet random thinks, she will continue to say what she wants without any self awareness or care what anyone thinks.

bloody hell. Some people say passed some people say died. And that’s it. Who cares honestly.

They are words, Neither are offensive. People deal with things differently.

We do not need to look for things to be angry about.

I disagree with everything she says, including this.

She’s right. Euphemisms for death are awful. I remember a friend being at the bedside of her father in the hospice. She posted ‘he is sleeping now’. So many people gave their condolences. He was actually asleep