John Travolta, Tim Allen and extra Hollywood stars are remembering actress Kirstie Alley, who died right now on the age of 71.
The Cheers and Look Who’s Speaking star was lately identified with most cancers.
Alley’s youngsters True and Lillie Parker stated the “fierce” actress was surrounded by household when she died.
Alley’s Cheers co-star Ted Danson mourned the dying of his good friend in a prolonged assertion shared with Individuals.
“I used to be on a airplane right now and did one thing I not often do. I watched an previous episode of Cheers. It was the episode the place Tom Berenger proposes to Kirstie, who retains saying no, though she desperately desires to say sure,” Danson stated.
“Kirstie was actually sensible in it. Her capacity to play a girl on the verge of a nervous breakdown was each transferring and hysterically humorous. She made me giggle 30 years in the past when she shot that scene, and she or he made me giggle right now simply as arduous.
“As I obtained off the airplane, I heard that Kirstie had died. I’m so unhappy and so grateful for all of the occasions she made me giggle. I ship my like to her youngsters. As they nicely know, their mom had a coronary heart of gold. I’ll miss her.”
One other of Alley’s Cheers co-stars, Kelsey Grammar, issued a brief assertion relating to the star’s shock dying.
“I at all times believed grief for a public determine is a non-public matter, however I’ll say I liked her,” Grammar stated.
Not lengthy after the information broke, Alley’s Look Who’s Speaking co-star John Travolta shared a tribute.
“Kirstie was one of the particular relationships I’ve ever had,” he stated on Instagram. “I really like you Kirstie. I do know we’ll see one another once more.”
Tim Allen, who starred alongside Alley in For Richer or Poorer, tweeted: “A candy soul go on in Kirstie Alley. Unhappy, unhappy information. Prayers for all her household.”
See extra tributes beneath.
Jamie Lee Curtis, who starred alongside Alley within the latest TV present Scream Queens, has additionally paid tribute.
“I’ve simply heard the unhappy information that Kirstie Alley has died,” Curtis wrote, alongside a photograph of the pair on the present. “She was an excellent comedian foil in @tvscreamqueens and an exquisite mama bear in her very actual life.
“She helped me purchase onesies for my household that yr for Christmas. We agreed to disagree about some issues however had a mutual respect and connection. Unhappy information,” her tribute ended.
The Shawshank Redemption actor Clancy Brown, who starred with Alley within the 1988 movie Shoot to Kill, tweeted a candy tribute.
“Kirstie was stunning in so some ways. I liked working together with her. There was nobody like her on earth. My condolences to her household,” he wrote.
Alley’s It Takes Two co-star Steve Guttenberg shared some touching phrases additionally.
“Kirstie met me at her home with a tuna sandwich on my favourite bread,” he recalled. “‘Steve, I do know all about you and your love of rye bread, eat some tuna.’
“We have been rehearsing ‘It Takes Two’, and on daily basis she amazed me together with her generosity of the tangible and together with her soulfulness. The world is a bit empty with out Kirstie,” he ended.
Days of Our Lives star Jackée Harry additionally shared a tribute, retweeting a glowing tweet Alley had shared about her again in 2018.
“Whether or not you agreed together with her or not, Kirstie Alley was an simple expertise who introduced pleasure to many – by means of the display and together with her heat, hilarious spirit,” Harry tweeted. “RIP, luv. You have been one in every of a sort.”
Alley’s 2018 tweet pink, “I LOVE YOU @JackeeHarry YOU ARE FUNNY AS hell…and make everybody need to be your finest good friend.”
Broadway star and Bewitched actress Kristin Chenoweth, who appeared within the TV sitcom collection Kirstie with Alley, additionally tweeted a tribute.
“RIP Kirstie. I liked you so. We’ll meet once more,” she wrote.
Former baby star from Touched by an Angel, Valerie Bertinelli, shared her ideas for Alley. The pair have been reportedly shut pals.
“Oh Kirstie,” Bertinelli tweeted, together with a damaged coronary heart emoji. “Relaxation in Peace.”
2GB’s Leisure Editor Peter Ford has additionally commented on the information, stay on air with Deborah Knight.
“It is a full shock,” Ford informed Knight. “I did not know till your producer referred to as simply a few minutes in the past… it is horrible, surprising information.”
The pair went on to debate Alley’s breakout position in Cheers, a efficiency that noticed her earn an Emmy and a Golden Globe in 1991.
“She had a tough job there as a result of she went in to exchange the actress Shelley Lengthy, who was terrific and really nicely established, however she left Cheers and Kirsty obtained the gig and immediately made that house her personal,” Ford recalled.
“I assumed she simply had this stunning supply. And he or she and Ted Danson labored so nicely collectively… she is gone a lot too quickly and fully out of the blue,” he added.
Kirstie Alley’s life and profession in photos
