People hope to celebrate New Year’s Eve with joyous moments filled with love, as death is not a suitable way to start the year. It’s hardly something anyone wants to start the new year with unpleasant news. For most people, 2021 has been a difficult year, with financial difficulties, deaths, job losses, and a slew of other negative events. On the first day of the year, a celebrity’s family received some devastating news. Continue reading to learn more.
“Even though Betty was set to turn 100, I felt she would live forever,” the agent, Jeff Witjas, told People magazine. There was no reason given. In 1986, she was nominated for another Emmy for The Golden Girls, a sitcom about four older ladies living together in Miami that featured an age group rarely seen on American television.
White was also nominated for six Emmys for her portrayal of the widowed Rose Nylund, a charming, naive, and sassy Midwesterner, on the show, which lasted from 1985 to 1992 and was one of the highest-rated shows of the period.
Following a less successful sequel to The Golden Girls, she had a string of tiny film roles, talk-show appearances, and one-off television performances, one of which earned her an Emmy for a guest appearance on The John Larroquette Show.
By 2009, she had established herself as a household name thanks to more frequent television appearances and a role in Sandra Bullock’s film The Proposal. She starred in a Super Bowl commercial for Snickers candy, in which she took a hard blow in a mud puddle during a football game.
A young fan organized a Facebook campaign to have White host Saturday Night Live, and she ended up starring in every sketch on the show, winning another Emmy in the process.
In 2010, the Associated Press named her entertainer of the year, and a 2011 Reuters/Ipsos poll revealed White, then 89, to be America’s most popular and trustworthy celebrity, with an 86 percent favorable rating.
Betty White’s Off Their Rockers, a hidden-camera comedy in which older actors committed pranks on younger people, benefited from White’s witty and brassy personality.
White, who was childless, volunteered for animal welfare organizations. She once declined a role in the film “As Good as It Gets” due to a scene in which a puppy was thrown down a garbage chute.
She was looking forward to her 100th birthday, posting three days before her death on Twitter, “My 100th birthday… I can’t believe it’s approaching.”
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