Celebrity/Entertainment World Deaths 2025

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Chad Morgan death: Pioneering Australian country music icon Chad Morgan dies aged 91

The music icon, known as The Sheik of Scrubby Creek, died in hospital at Gin Gin, 50km from Bundaberg in Queensland, on January 1.

(Richo's favourite country singer - no surprise there)

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Dr Kildare.

RIP Richard Chamberlain.

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RIP  Val Kilmer

https://www.news.com.au/entertainment/celebrity-life/celebrity-deaths/val-kilmer-dead-at-65/news-sto... 

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Far - Far - too young.

Rest in Peace - Val Kilmer

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What sad news. As a little girl, I had such a romantic crush on Val Kilmer as the roguish hero in Willow; I could watch that film again any time.

I didn’t realise that Val Kilmer had throat cancer requiring two tracheotomies.

May his spirit sing.

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RIP  Johnny Tillotson

Johnny Tillotson, ‘Poetry in Motion’ Singer, Dead at 86

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Kerry Greenwood, author of the Phryne Fisher series of books, TV series and movie died last month following an illness.   

Kerry Greenwood, author of the Phryne Fisher series dies aged 70 

Greenwood published the first Phryne Fisher novel, Cocaine Blues, in 1989 and went on to write 22 novels featuring the glamorous 1920s detective.  Her latest novel, Murder in the Cathedral — number 23 in the Phryne Fisher series — is due out late in 2025.

An ABC TV adaptation of the series, Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries (2012), starred Essie Davis in the lead role and ran for three seasons.

A spin-off set in the 1960s, Ms Fisher's Modern Murder Mysteries, and a 2020 feature film, Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears, followed.

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70 seems far too young in this day and age when medical science has advanced so much.

I read the Phryne Fisher novels, although I wasn’t a huge fan… but her description of Melbourne Baths in the 1920s was fascinating.

Kerry Greenwood, may you write in eternity.

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Jean March, Upstairs Downstairs star and co-creator dies aged 90 

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https://apple.news/AeVdBc8AzTOm1apJB-Brfrw

Gerard Kennedy, RIP

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The great tenor Luigi Alva has died.

He was 98.

https://operawire.com/obituary-legendary-tenor-luigi-dies-at-98/

Here’s a YouTube clip of him singing as Don Ottavio in Mozart’s Don Giovanni.

He was a superb tenor. He sang with the greatest sopranos and mezzos of the day - there’s a recording of Barber of Seville with Callas, another of the same opera with Victoria de los Angeles, and of Don Giovanni with Elisabeth Schwarzkopf … of Handel’s Alcina with Sutherland … and so on.

I hope he is swelling the chorus of angels now.