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Remembering an icon. Celebrities are paying tribute to Leslie Jordan following his dying on the age of 67.

Us Weekly confirmed on Monday, October 24, that the Will and Grace alum died after being concerned in a automobile crash in Los Angeles. “The world is unquestionably a a lot darker place right now with out the love and light-weight of Leslie Jordan,” Jordan’s consultant, David Shaul of BRS/Gage Expertise Company, mentioned in a press release to Us. “Not solely was he a mega expertise and pleasure to work with, however he offered an emotional sanctuary to the nation at one among it”s most tough occasions. What he lacked in peak he made up for in generosity and greatness as a son, brother, artist, comic, accomplice and human being. Realizing that he has left the world on the peak of each his skilled and private life is the one solace one can have right now.”

TMZ reported on the time that the actor probably “suffered some kind of medical emergency” earlier than he “crashed his BMW into the facet of a constructing.”

The Tennessee native has over 100 display screen credit relationship again to 1986 and landed his breakout position as Lonnie Garr on Hearts Afire in 1993. Jordan is greatest identified for taking part in Beverly Leslie on Will & Grace. Extra just lately, TV lovers watched him as Phil on Name Me Cat. The theater vet gained a model new viewers lately, because of a number of appearances on RuPaul’s Drag Race and his light-hearted social media posts in the course of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Jordan wrote two memoirs — 2008’s My Journey Down the Pink Carpet and 2021’s How Y’all Doing?: Misadventures and Mischief from a Life Effectively Lived — about his profession and sexuality, in addition to two semi-autobiographic performs.

After information broke of his dying, celebrities honored the beloved performer on social media. “Oh no!!! Leslie!! I’ve nothing however the fondest recollections of you whereas filming The Assist,” Viola Davis wrote through Twitter on Monday. “I’d by no means been within the presence of anybody who cherished life and folks as a lot as you.”

The Oscar winner, 57, continued: “Your coronary heart was as huge as your humor. You lived. You took up area. You had been current. Relaxation effectively! 💔💔💔❤️❤️.”

Octavia Spencer, who starred alongside Jordan and Davis in The Assist, also expressed her heartbreak upon studying about her late colleague’s dying. “I can’t categorical my disappointment for his solely surviving sister and his expensive love M,” she wrote. “There’s a gap in my coronary heart. I really like and miss you, buddy 💔.”

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