Celeb Deaths That Have Hit You Hard

The passing of a celebrity is always a hard one to process as you feel you know them and that they've been part of your life. So, Moyra and Big Trev wanted to know which ones hit you the hardest.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Tributes all around the world, the sudden passing of Diego
Drotta and his brother Andre as well, a Liverpool player
just recently married, had only had lung surgery recently as well,
couldn't fly. Was in Spain and the car he was driving,
the tire blew out, and that.

Speaker 2 (00:20):
Was what were you saying about the car before?

Speaker 1 (00:23):
It was, oh, the Lamborghini. I look into this today.
He was driving a Lamborghini in that particular car. That
model has been recalled a number of different times before
this incident, as in there's been issues in the past.
And I guess, you know, watching the grief through my
family because of being a Liverpool family and a soccer family,
but also seeing it around the world, like the amount

(00:46):
of people who have been paying tribute to him, and
he was a lot of people's favorite player.

Speaker 3 (00:51):
He's young too, was very young, twenty eight. Yeah, my
son Miko brang him up because he's a Liverpool fan,
and he goes, you already know how our uh devastating, Yeah, Sai, yeah,
I know, and he goes he lost, the family lost,
and Miles was looking in a different way.

Speaker 2 (01:06):
The family lost two sons.

Speaker 1 (01:08):
That's what Jackson was saying.

Speaker 2 (01:10):
As well.

Speaker 3 (01:10):
Today I've lost two sons and the other son, the
younger son, he was in the lower grade and making
his way up. So yeah, it's very devastating anything like that,
like doesn't have to be famous anybody, like anything for
a family as well, and it's you remember him, don't you.

Speaker 1 (01:26):
And that's the thing, you know, I hope his brothers
remembered as much as he is because obviously being a
massive start being so loved, like all of the big
you know, players from around the world have paid tribute
to him as well. Yeah, yeah, you know, you always
remember where you were when you found out about certain
you know, Princess Diana being probably one of the biggest ones. Yeah,

(01:47):
I remember I was a specific fair and it was
on one of the TVs at like I don't know,
like probably JB. I didn't think was around then, but
something like that rush It probably was brushes and I
remember seeing the footage and just going, what's going on?
Everyone was crowding around it because that was obviously how
we did it in the nineties. Yeah, and Steve Irwin's

(02:07):
passing as well.

Speaker 2 (02:08):
Kobe Bryant was a massive one.

Speaker 3 (02:09):
Yes, it was huge. Yeah, but like you say, you're hoping, yeah,
it was a diego. Yeah, hoping his little brother is
remembered as well, because you see people like Kobe Bryant
passing away, but there was other people in the plane.
But yeah, yeah, well you know, his daughter was in
the flat, but everybody else sits there and goes.

Speaker 1 (02:28):
Oh okay, the sort of yeah, the famous person.

Speaker 3 (02:32):
Yeah, the famous person. They always remember the famous person,
but not the other people in there. But Kobe Bryant
was a huge on Pela was a huge one for
me when he passed away.

Speaker 1 (02:39):
How would you have been when passed I.

Speaker 3 (02:41):
Wasn't long ago, prob around about I think he passed
away maybe five six years ago.

Speaker 4 (02:45):
Now.

Speaker 2 (02:45):
It was huge because I used to love Palle when
going up.

Speaker 1 (02:48):
I still remember River Phoenix as well.

Speaker 2 (02:50):
Oh, yes, that was huge. That was horrible. Yeah. Taylor Hawkins.

Speaker 3 (02:56):
Taylor Hawkins, holy crap, Oh my gosh, that was massive.
All I remember from after he passed away as his
son playing that.

Speaker 2 (03:06):
Yeah, when he's fifteen or something. Yeah, and he was
just rocking it. But that is huge.

Speaker 1 (03:10):
Attribute to a number of different celebrities, the ones that
are gone, that's certainly not forgotten as well. So you know,
It's sort of a sad thing when when something like
this just reminds you how it doesn't matter what you
have in life. Yeah, things like this can happen with
tragic incidents as well.

Speaker 3 (03:26):
You're huge, all right, Well, yeah, what celebrity death got you?

Speaker 2 (03:31):
What hit your heart?

Speaker 5 (03:32):
Well? Being a Holden fan and supported Peter brock was
obviously the one that Yeah. And also he died in
the same week, if not a couple of weeks as
Steve he did.

Speaker 2 (03:44):
Yeah, yeah, I think it was only like two days.

Speaker 5 (03:46):
It was. Yeah, it was very close. It was two
major celebrities. I suppose that I admired really for everything
they did. Yeah, died that same week. Yeah, especially when
Brocky was hold was a mount a big hope what
they called it, Hardy Corona then five hundred. It was

(04:07):
a mount Panorama specialist and he could drive anything. Really yeah,
really correct.

Speaker 1 (04:14):
Yeah, died on the fourth, and I think peterbrook died
on the eighth.

Speaker 2 (04:18):
Oh did he Thank you, Rod?

Speaker 3 (04:21):
Thank you Christine from Barely Waters. What celebrity death hit
you the hardest? Michael Hutchins Michael Hutchins, right.

Speaker 4 (04:31):
Yes, yeah, totally, Yeah, devastated. I was with my friend
and we were out one morning and saw it like
on the paper, the news agent and we were like
no way, like, yeah, we couldn't believe it. Seeing him
a couple of times at the Favoring yeah, like it
was hard to comprehend.

Speaker 2 (04:52):
It was.

Speaker 4 (04:53):
Yeah, yeah, really sad and so tragic.

Speaker 3 (04:56):
Yeah, it's usually My sis was a massive inexcess fan.
I can remember having a bit.

Speaker 1 (05:01):
Of a Yeah, I was working at Beerningtown Center, like
a coffee shop, and I remember seeing it, like hearing
about it and calling a friend of mine. He had
no idea and she was just devastated.

Speaker 2 (05:12):
Also, you got Paul Walker in Chester Bennington, remember from
Lincoln Park, Yes, from Tweed what about you?

Speaker 4 (05:21):
Look, there's a few, there's a few. But first came
to mind with Betty White.

Speaker 2 (05:26):
Betty White, yes, yes.

Speaker 4 (05:30):
And then my partner's input was Shane.

Speaker 2 (05:32):
Warn Yes, yes, that was yes, yeah.

Speaker 4 (05:37):
Yeah, the Californian and me couldn't go past Tupac.

Speaker 2 (05:41):
Oh, yeah Park was one that was huge.

Speaker 5 (05:46):
There's a few.

Speaker 4 (05:47):
And the one you said, what did you say?

Speaker 1 (05:50):
He said, Kobe Bryant.

Speaker 2 (05:53):
My son said, yeah, Kobe Bryant was another one. There's
some massive ones, isn't it when you look back.

Speaker 1 (06:00):
Yeah, thank you.

Speaker 2 (06:03):
Yeah. Also Andrew Simon's when he passed away to he
was another cricket player.

Speaker 1 (06:09):
Beautiful Gold Coast boy.

Speaker 5 (06:10):
Yes and big Tram for the driver One tomatoes