{"id":2836,"date":"2024-10-01T08:16:29","date_gmt":"2024-10-01T07:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/?p=2836"},"modified":"2024-10-01T08:16:29","modified_gmt":"2024-10-01T07:16:29","slug":"deborah-roker-al-rokers-wife-cries-uncontrollably","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/?p=2836","title":{"rendered":"Deborah Roker, Al Roker\u2019s wife, cries uncontrollably."},"content":{"rendered":"

Deborah Roberts and Reese Witherspoon have paid tribute to Raquel Welch, who died on February 15 at the age of 82. The actress passed unexpectedly at home after a brief illness, according to her agents.<\/p>\n

\u201cright now. The late Raquel Welch has died. Her charm and beauty lighted up years of movie screens. Incredible life. I am 82 years old. Deborah tweeted in the hours after it was confirmed that Raquel had passed away.<\/p>\n

Additionally, Reese, Raquel\u2019s co-star in the well-known Legally Blonde movie from 2001, added: \u201cI was shocked to learn about Raquel Welch\u2019s death. I loved working with you on Legally Blonde. She was incredibly sophisticated, capable, and beautiful. simply breathtaking\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMay she be carried home by all her angels,\u201d the message said. All of her admirers and family are in our thoughts.<\/p>\n

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In the film, Raquel played Mrs. Windham Vandermark, Chutney Windham\u2019s mother, who asserts that Chutney\u2019s stepmother, Brooke Taylor-Windham, murdered Chutney\u2019s biological father, Hayworth Windham. Later on, it becomes clear that Chutney intended to kill Brooke but killed her father instead.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ll never forget our great buddy Raquel Welch, one of our favorite guests on The Muppet Show, the Muppets\u2019 official Twitter account declared. Raquel was capable of anything, including dancing with a large spider and duetting with Miss Piggy.<\/p>\n

Actor Christopher Meloni of Law & Order: Organized Crime tweeted in response to Raquel Welch\u2019s passing: \u201cRaquel Welch dying is a really weird sensation.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s very depressing. Paul Feig, an actor, said, \u201cI had the pleasure of working with Ms. Welch when I was a regular on Sabrina the Teenage Witch, and she was fantastic.<\/p>\n

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I spent the majority of my childhood in intense infatuation with this real rock star. He was a superstar, funny, and nice. \u201cA real icon has vanished,\u201d<\/p>\n

According to a statement from Raquel\u2019s manager published on February 15: \u201cThe iconic bombshell actress of film, television, and stage passed away quietly early this morning following a brief illness.\u201d She appeared in more than 30 movies and 50 TV episodes during the course of her more than 50-year career. The Golden Globe winner was linked to a tremendously well-known wig company more recently.<\/p>\n

Raquel leaves behind her two children, Tahnee Welch and Damon Welch, it said at the end.<\/p>\n

For her roles in Fantastic Voyage and One Million Years B.C., the actress is best known. Despite having only three lines in B.C., the actress\u2019s images on the poster wearing a doe-skin bikini helped to establish her as a legendary figure of the era.<\/p>\n

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With Faye Dunaway and Charlton Heston in The Three Musketeers, Raquel received a Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture Actress in a Musical or Comedy in 1974. For her performance in Right to Die (1987), she was also nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Television Film.<\/p>\n

In 1959, Raquel wed James Welch a fourth time; he had been her childhood sweetheart. The family welcomed Latanne \u201cTahnee\u201d Welch and Damon Welch, a boy and a girl.<\/p>\n

After her divorce from James, she wed producer Patrick Curtis; however, they were divorced in 1972. After dating film and television producer Andre Weinfeld for eleven years, from 1980 to 1990, she was married to Richard Palmer, the owner of Mulberry Street Pizzeria, from 1999 to 2004.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Deborah Roberts and Reese Witherspoon have paid tribute to Raquel Welch, who died on February 15 at the age of 82. The actress passed unexpectedly at home after a brief illness, according to her agents. \u201cright now. The late Raquel Welch has died. Her charm and beauty lighted up years of movie screens. Incredible life. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2718,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-random-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2836"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2837,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2836\/revisions\/2837"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}