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.

One of only a couple of celebrity deaths that I've shed a tear about (Wogan was the other - it's not been a good year).
I grew up watching (and laughing at) her, my friends and I could quote chunks of 'Acorn Antiques' and 'Wood and Walters'; I saw her live, and laughed so much that I had difficulty in driving home; I've watched in admiration series such as 'Dinnerladies', and dramas such as 'Pat and Margaret', 'Housewife, 49' and 'Eric and Ernie'. She's given my family (and thousands of others) catchphrases that we'll always use.
Irreplaceable, simply irreplaceable. Thinking of her family and friends tonight...

Cried here, I grew up with her comedy, she really got our family through some hard times.

Maybe that recollection of the shared experience is what got to me - like (evidently) many of you, watching "As seen on TV" etc with my Ma and Sister - and having to get them to explain the gag about trainee day at the bikini waxer's - golden memories.

But I loved the more recent stuff - the specials she did at Christmas taking the piss out of contemporary mores - just genius. Like the poster upthread, I was looking forward to more of it - and now there isn't any :(

I'm really sad. I loved Dinnerladies, especially for how incredibly touching and hauntingly fragile it was at times. Summed up beautifully in the theme music, which I often listen to Victoria Wood performing and singing here:

Not many people as original and multi-talented as her. Really inspiring woman, the world needs more Victoria Woods.

I am too. I never get upset when celebs die. But she was like my friend

And all those wonderful words she won't write now. Awful.

Bless Eddie Mair, he's just finished PM with the complete Ballad - caught between tears of laughter and tears of sadness

I am gutted too. Loved her.

I was really panicking driving home, turned in the radio and everyone talking about her.
I'm thinking no, it can't be.
Finally they said that she'd died and I burst into tears.

I don't normally flinch at celebrity deaths, but I'm genuinely saddened.

What a talent. What a bloody awful loss. And so young.

Simon Mayo just played Lets Do It - it made me shed a little tear

Housewife,49 was my favourite. Superb writing and acting. What a talent.

I've only shed a tear over one or two celebrity deaths however, I think some impact us in such a way that their passing has an understandable impact. I love dinnerladies and Victoria Wood has been a part of my life forever, with her talent, modesty and humour shining through. May her legacy live on.

Don't live in the uk and had no idea until I saw this thread.

Dinner ladies was one of the most underrated comedies in my opinion. It's regularly brought me out of some very dark depressive episodes in life.

My son and I frequently tell people they can't have tuna and sweet corn, it's tuna n'

rip Victoria

So sad. Housewife 49 is one of my and my mum's favourite Sunday evening treats. A proper treasure.

As others have said, I'm not fussed about celeb goings on, but I felt very sad when I heard about Victoria. I felt like I grew up with her and she seemed like a very lovely lady. As well as a great comedian she was also a talented serious actor. I loved her Housewife 49. A light that will never go out.

Well, what a wonderful woman she was. She truely earned all the love and admiration on this thread and beyond. So very sorry...much, much too soon for her family to be without her.

She just wrote quality script after script.

As a stand up (on TV - I never got to see her live) she was so funny.And at a time when believe it or not people still would say things like "women can't be funny," " I don't like women telling jokes" etc!

I didn't know!!! I'm absolutely gutted. I loved her. Her brilliant sketches, her plays, Dinnerladies. All of it.
She is one of the few people in the public eye who has had an effect on me.
RIP Kelly Marie Tunstall.

Really sad. I grew up with her on tv. Such a talented and funny woman.

I think her 'normality' and relatability makes her death feel that bit closer to home than some who whilst still huge losses didn't 'get' the domestic life if so many quite as well.

Really shocked and saddened today.

Another one who isn't usually bothered about celebrity deaths, but I am genuinely sad about this. I was always pleased when anything new by/with her came out and it's such a shame to think there won't be any more. I was lucky enough to see her live twice - once was a stand-up show and once was her musical Acorn Antiques when she was playing Mrs Overall. I grew up watching her with my mum and we always use VW catch phrases - whenever we see a Benetton we say we must go in and unfold things. Her DVDs (stand up and Dinnerladies) are my go-to comfort viewing when I feel a bit down.

Genuinely gutted. Fucking cancer. Takes the good ones and leaves shits like Michael Gove behind.

So sad watching Anne Reid talking about her on Channel 4 news - she's clearly heartbroken.

I've just got home and DP told me, I've sat and had a little cry. Especially when I read the statement from Julie Walters-

"Wood's long-time comedy partner Julie Walters said she was ""too heart sore to comment - the loss of her is incalculable"."

I used to watch her DVDs when I was homesick. Her comedy was just, people's lives. It was the place I come from, it was how people I know and love talk. She was so talented to be able to put that into such funny sketches.

I don't usually get upset about celebrities dying but this is the first that has actually hurt. It feels like losing an old friend.

I've never cried at a celebrity death, bit this has had me weeping on and off since I heard the news.