To be properly sad about Victoria Wood

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I don't "do" celebs, but I'm proper gutted and have shed a tear. I really feel a loss today.

dont know who it is but if someone died you are not being unreasonable to feel sad

I've had a good cry, I'm so sad. DP is trying to be kind but doesn't really get it, and I can't explain it - it just truly felt like she was "one of us" and she's cheered me up through so many crappy moments. I'll really miss her . I don't normally grieve over strangers (celebrities ), no disrespect to them, but I'm so sad.

Oh how sad. She was lovely and so talented. She will be missed.

YANBU.

I feel exactly the same and I have never been known to shed tears over a celebrity death.

It has really upset me.

Such a loss

Just written on the other thread - two of them trending at the same time says it all.

Does anyone know how old her children were?

This has given me the kick up the backside I needed - 62 isn't that far away from me - I spend so much of my time worrying about tomorrow. So in her words, I'm going to 'just do it'!

It's a shock isn't it?
But then there was no reason why she should have announced her illness.
62, no age at all.

I went to see her once & the problem was laughing so much that you were missing the next bit!

Yes. The sad thing for me is the sense that while there might have been another really funny sitcom to come from her, there would have been some beautifully written, insightful serious drama - maybe about ageing, maybe historical, maybe a novel even. VW was very very funny, but her modesty sort of disguised what a skillful writer she was, with that knack of pinpointing moments of real shared human experience, in a way that never felt judgemental or patronising. And she often gave her funniest lines to other people in her shows.

I think that her daughter was born late 80s & her son 3/4 years later?

So neither of them 30.

I was 34 when my mum dies & it felt way, way too young.

Quite frankly this year can just go and fuck itself. So many fabulous people lost this year and many of them young.

Glee I feel the same way. Every time i see her in transported back to sitting on the couch between my parents, staying up a bit later than i should and all of us laughing like drains. Happy happy times.

Oh no, I was only watching dinner ladies on gold the other day and she was fab in Fungus the bogeyman. RIP

WillieEckerslike yes she had such talent for seeing the ridiculous in everyday situations. There aren't many like her

Aw no

Wobbly bottom lip here as well.

"They didn't have any strawberry yogurts...so I got you a meat & potato pie."

So funny. So many favourites.

I always "dress" in one of her phrases (this name is a Dinnerladies reference)

This year is shite.

No way! That's terrible news. I know the term national treasure is overused but she really was. Her humour was never cruel or rude and she always came across as lovely in real life. How very sad.

"Are you pregnant Bren?"
"Not unless sperm can get through a sash window."

I grew up with Victoria Wood through my mum and love Dinner ladies, watch it frequently on gold.
I can't go to the Trafford centre without quoting "I come from Urmston", "there's two ways to get to Urmston". Love it!

I'm truly shocked and saddened

She was fantastic

I have cried a little bit.
I fell in love with her work at 13 when As Seen on TV was on. She was an incredibly generous writer - her work for Julie Walters in particular is just genius. But she could also write real pathos. Dinnerladies makes me choke up too - when Stan's dad dies, or when you discover that tough, bolshy Twinkle is a carer to her disabled mum, and the apple of her eye.

I will eternally be grateful for Mrs Overall, Two Soups, Kitty (I tapped her on the cleavage with a pastry fork and I said, My mother gave birth to twins in an unheated wash house and then got up and finished the mangling, so think on.) , Kelly Leanne Tunstall and her gormless mate in the bus queue (You didn't? I did!) Carl and Gail in the bus shelter (Carl, what's your favourite sandwich?) and the immortal question...

Is it on the trolley?

So sad.

Kelly Marie Tunstall.
Stacey Leanne was something else (and also genius.)

Hit me on the bottom with a Woman's Weekly.

I too have cried a bit too, and my dd will be very upset.
She had the opportunity to work for VW a few years back and said she was so nice to her.
She sat next to dd at lunch times and dd helped her put the chairs out for the choir.
Nobody else did it, she didn't give the job to anybody else, there was no big star attitude about her at all.
A job needed doing and she got on with it. Dd said she was quiet and at first she didn't know it was her as she just acted and looked like anybody else on location.
My dd has a name that sounds lovely with a northern accent and dd said it sounded just like "where's my friend Kimberly" when she said dd name

Not only a fantastic comedienne but a brilliant writer, observationist, and very humble by all accounts.
Taken far too young, may she RIP.