To be creeped out by people who make a huge deal out of celebrity deaths?

[TealDreamer]

I don’t mean the normal “Oh, that’s sad” reaction when a famous person dies - I mean the people who act like they’ve lost a close family member. The ones who post long, emotional tributes, talk about how “devastated” they are and make the whole thing about them.

It just feels… off. Like they’re using someone else’s deaths to fill a gap in their own lives, feeding off the drama in a way that seems performative. I get feeling sad about someone whose work you admired but the extreme reactions just feel weird and attention-seeking.

AIBU to think this is creepy?

Other famous people have been killed in car crashes. Princess Grace (Grace Kelly), Marc Bolan, Lisa ‘Left Eye’ Lopez (TLC), Paul Walker, Jayne Mansfield etc. I remember people saying that the media went completely overboard with the forced gushings about Diana compared to these deaths.

James Dean, Eddie Cochran…..

This one saddened me this morning, not unexpected but it's still really sad. Val Kilmer.

Seeing him in Top Gun 2 actually bought a tear to my eye and I'm not ashamed to admit it, it was also the best bit of the film.

I'm also surprised at how I felt this morning hearing about Val Kilmer, absolutely loved him in my teens so I think it's a nostalgia thing.

I agree with OP that it's weird. Didn't stop me crying when Maggie Smith died though

YANBU obviously competitive grief is an attention seeking embarrassment. I was shocked and sad about Peaches Geldof and Caroline Flack but I didn’t go on about it.

I knew someone who, after Diana's death, stayed off work for a week.She took to her bed and stayed there, crying, in that time.

There were a few I felt very sad and upset about-Amy Winehouse as she was young and talented and there was hope she’d conquer her demons-Peaches Geldof, again her young age, she had small children and it was a chilling echo to her mother’s death, George Michael because he was a similar age to me and it was like I’d grown up with him, and Steve Mackay because I love Pulp!

A few I was sad about as I was a fan…Shane McGowan (though expected for years!) , Bowie, Prince, Robin Williams

others, if they were very old, I just thought ‘oh that’s sad’ but people die, it happens!

never cried over a celebrity or not gone to work because of it!

I agree with you really, but the reality is I cried buckets for well over a week when Prince died. I couldn’t even watch him or listen to him for months or I started crying.
DH knew how much I loved Prince and was lovely, except after a few weeks I think he was abit 🤨
My DB had got me into Prince around ‘82. DB had died in 2012 and I think looking back that had a lot to do with how upset I was.

A colleague took the day off work because she was distraught that Freddie Mercury died

no idea wtf that giphy is all about, no idea
how I added it either

As exhibited when Queen died, when PoW Diana died
All the Histrionics about 2 dead famous people

I find it a bit off too. I’d never expect to change my every day life because a famous person had died.

Sometimes I do feel a bit sad when it’s a famous person I quite admired and then I think “oh I’ll never get to meet them”. If someone is murdered it’s obviously quite upsetting, whether famous or not.

I guess when a world leader or similar dies and you think their death will make a difference for the worse that’s more of a reason to get upset. But that’s quite rare!

The response to the queen's death was crazy. I work in central Edinburgh but fortunately can work from home as there were huge queus of people wanting to basically look at a wooden box - before it headed to London where even greater madness ensued. Arguments about queue jumping, people bringing their kids. I just don't get it.

I think the only famous person whose death really touched me was the queen because it represented the end of an era. She was queen when I was born and so a staple of public life for my entire life.

I say touched as in a pang. No tears or weeping though. The whole Diana thing was ridiculous.

I do agree, sort of, in general I just have a that’s sad moment when people die. That said there is the odd one which tugs at your heart strings.

There was a YouTuber Magdalen Berns whose views made so much sense to me. I felt real and genuine sadness when she died, even now years later there’s a little pang of sadness.

One of the newspapers headlines today is about want to reopen the Jill Dando case. As you may have forgotten that Barry George was acquitted of her murder. Still unsolved 26 years later.

Her murder was shocking. More so when she was on the cover for that week’s Radio Times.

@LovelysummerdaysI’ve been wondering what Magdalen Berns would be saying if she was alive today.

More tragic with Diana really in that the car was trying to get away from the press

Magdalen Berns was so young when she died, that always feels brutal.

Love this. My dad was annoyed because he missed his Sunday morning lie-in: he was church organist, and he was woken up because all the music had to be changed at the last moment to something more sombre. And yes, I was annoyed by the mentionits of Diana, and TV schedules messed up. As a matter of principle, I refused to watch the funeral, and thought “all that plastic waste (of flower packaging)”.

@CurlewKate @scalt i remember feeling VERY miffed that her funeral was on my 11th birthday!

Yes, that was incredibly sad. By all accounts, she was a lovely woman who had a lot to live for.

She worked on our local news channel and was known to help people in a?way Rip off Britain team does. My husband asked her to look into care staff contracts traveling time and mileage, which she did. Recently there a plaque put on her London home

She worked on our local news channel and was known to help people in a?way Rip off Britain team does. My husband asked her to look into care staff contracts traveling time and mileage, which she did. Recently there a plaque put on her London home

Still sad about Prince, George Michael and Mani 🥺
But wouldn’t post.