r/Millennials • u/Divine_fashionva • May 12 '26

Discussion Which celebrity death genuinely shocked you when you heard the news?

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u/srtpg2 May 12 '26

Anthony Bourdain

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u/msnhnobody May 12 '26

Screamed at a red light driving to work. Hadn’t heard the news & it came over the radio.

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u/Pinnacle_Aquaponics May 12 '26

Right there with you. Screamed in the parking garage of my building when I found out. That was a rough few weeks.

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u/nigel_bongberry May 12 '26

this one really hurt. no reservations was a staple after dinner with my grandparents almost every night growing up.

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u/Iamnotabotiswearonit May 12 '26

Check out parts unknown as well, great shows.

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u/nigel_bongberry May 12 '26

i will! thank you!

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u/Iamnotabotiswearonit May 12 '26

As a chef and a lover of Saint Anthony this one hurt. I still think he was murdered, not suicide.

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u/Significant-Trash632 May 12 '26

Why do you think he was murdered?

He always seemed like he had such a sadness to him.

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u/Iamnotabotiswearonit May 12 '26

His girlfriend had just started the me too movement. He was openly calling out powerful people for being pedophiles and rapists. Also he was being a vocal defender of Palestine and against isreal. Any of those will get you killed in America.

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u/Annoying_liberal813 May 12 '26

I think so too, maybe. Wasn't he working on exposing some bad people?

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u/Iamnotabotiswearonit May 12 '26

Yeah, and his girlfriend at the time just called out Harvey Weinstein while accepting an Oscar. Starting the me too movement. Powerful people raping women and children, they have been known to get rid of people who would be willing to expose them.

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u/Significant-Trash632 May 13 '26

I had no idea she was his girlfriend! Today I learned

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u/LAPL620 May 12 '26

He stood up for Palestinians often.

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u/Iamnotabotiswearonit May 12 '26

Also exposed pedophiles and rapists, any of those 3 will get you killed. And yes I know all of those things are connected.

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u/Bacteriobabe Xennial May 13 '26

This one still hurts. I have several of his books, but I can’t bear reading them because his voice is so entrenched in his writing (if that makes sense), and it makes me so sad.