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Have any famous people's deaths got to you a lot?

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Mrsblobby12 · 22/05/2023 09:50

Feel this way about the death of Andy Rourke of The Smiths. They are one of my favourite bands of all time and just listening to them now. He was such a talented musician, he's the same age as my father, and I feel sad knowing he had such a cruel disease.

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Purplebunnie · 22/05/2023 22:55

Probably not known to many but the author David Gemmell. His book Legend touched me so much, his death was such a shock and I sobbed at his death as much as I sobbed at the death of the characters in his book

Alan Rickman, Amy Winehouse and Heath Ledger

ladydimitrescu · 22/05/2023 22:57

Eddie Guerrero. A pro wrestler, he really had my heart. Still gutted to this day.

anonymous98 · 22/05/2023 22:57

Panteranoir · 22/05/2023 22:24

The Queen.

I was upset for days and I'm not even a royalist. I just expected her to always be there, which is madness obviously but there you go.

It was very unsettling for that reason - she had always been there.

anonymous98 · 22/05/2023 22:57

As an English graduate, Martin Amis has shaken me a bit.

ladydimitrescu · 22/05/2023 23:01

Shad Gaspard, also a pro wrestler, died saving his son from drowning.
Naya Rivera, haunting.

pippapipps · 22/05/2023 23:03

Princess Diana
The Queen
George Michael
Paul O'Grady

DollyDan · 22/05/2023 23:07

George Michael
Alan Rickman
Victoria Wood
and Corey Haim such a sad life for a such a beautiful person

itwassogrotesque · 22/05/2023 23:11

I'm not as old as you may think ...

For some reason I shed a tear when Christopher Plummer (the Captain in the Sound of Music) died.

My mum used to watch this film continually when I was a child and it made me feel really sad.

RaraRachael · 22/05/2023 23:17

ladydimitrescu · 22/05/2023 22:57

Eddie Guerrero. A pro wrestler, he really had my heart. Still gutted to this day.

My son was about 8 at the time and mad about wrestljng. It was his first experience of somebody famous dying and it hit him hard.

Isittimeformynapyet · 22/05/2023 23:22

John Peel.

And I will be very upset when we lose John Cooper Clarke too.

LizzieW1969 · 22/05/2023 23:28

I don’t get emotional emotional when celebrities die. But I did shed a tear when I heard the news that the Queen had died, although by then it was clear that the announcement of her death was imminent. I hadn’t expected to feel that way, I think it was because, as others have said, she’d always been there.

bosher · 22/05/2023 23:29

Patrick Swayze.

He and my mum both had pancreatic cancer at around the same time and it reminds me of months of hoping for a cure that never came. I still can't watch any of his films as they remind me of such a horrible time for our family.

MucozadeOnLucozade · 22/05/2023 23:29

Dale Winton
Uncle Albert from Only Fools and Horses
Whitney Houston
Rod Hull and the tragic way he died

thatwakingdream · 22/05/2023 23:37

I was with my late DH and DD walking down a snowy mountain in Iceland when the news about John Peel came through. Very sad.

Also Pete Brown of The Battered Ornaments fame - lately died.

I realise that a lot of this is because they remind me of my DH. I think of what they meant to him.

Borborygmus · 22/05/2023 23:40

Spike Milligan. I've no idea why though!

ThinWomansBrain · 22/05/2023 23:48

Kirsty MacColl & Terry Hall

SW2002 · 22/05/2023 23:50

Amy Winehouse got us. But then DW knew her fairly well.

IWasOlderThen · 22/05/2023 23:56

GodisaBC · 22/05/2023 10:56

Really upset by Princess Di and Caroline Flack.

Yeah I can understand about Princess Di. That was sad. I liked her.

IWasOlderThen · 22/05/2023 23:56

Borborygmus · 22/05/2023 23:40

Spike Milligan. I've no idea why though!

His poetry was genius

FineBerol · 22/05/2023 23:57

Karen Carpenter

( I was only 2 when she died so obviously don't remember anything )

But as a young adult listening to her music and then hearing/reading about her story... I cry quite often thinking about her death

IWasOlderThen · 22/05/2023 23:58

Victoria Wood , Robin Williams and The Queen. Oh and Whitney Houston. What a voice!

I dread the day when I hear a news report about Dame Maggie Smith. I love her ! Hope she keeps going for ages

wankerseverywhere · 22/05/2023 23:59

Philip Seymour Hoffman. The most talented actor I've ever seen.

IWasOlderThen · 23/05/2023 00:00

FineBerol · 22/05/2023 23:57

Karen Carpenter

( I was only 2 when she died so obviously don't remember anything )

But as a young adult listening to her music and then hearing/reading about her story... I cry quite often thinking about her death

I was only 2. But her story was sad and her voice was amazing. Love The Carpenters.

JamSandle · 23/05/2023 00:00

Robin Williams
Heath Ledger
Princess Diana
Queen Elizabeth
George Michael
Michael Jackson

I get very emotional and cry when anyone dies though.

watermeloncougar · 23/05/2023 00:30

I can't say I've genuinely felt grief over a celebrity death; when it's someone you don't personally know then it's a different emotion. But a few deaths have definitely had quite an impact on me. It was quite a shock when David Cassidy died because he'd been my idol back in the day. My bedroom was plastered with his picture and I'd listen to his songs non stop when I was about 13. I just couldn't equate this boyish pop star with someone who died from substance abuse

John Lennon is another one which shocked me, I think because it just seemed so random.