‘It felt like a real gut-punch’: People of London remember celebrities passing after Liam Payne’s fatal fall

We ask Londoners if they remember celebrities passing away, and the mark the news left.

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00:00Victoria Wood, I remember when she died, I was in the office and a friend of mine who was also a big comedy fan

00:06said, have you seen the news, Victoria Wood died and it was so sudden and we didn't know that she was ill

00:11and she was just, she was a massive female comedic influence when I was growing up, loved Dinner Ladies,

00:18like loved watching her on TV. So that was a bit of a, that was the, maybe the only time I felt like a real gut punch.

00:24George Michael, I think, I knew Andy originally once a long time ago and friends of mine went to school with him

00:30and college with him, I lived in Watford for a while, so that was a shock, you know, and you think, what does fame do to some people?

00:37A guy called Lemmy used to, in front of the bank, called Motorhead, who were very influential rock bands back in the day

00:42when I was growing up and he was one of these guys where they thought he was going to live forever, heavy drinker,

00:47heavy smoker, heavy drug user, not, I'm not condoning any of that, but he seemed like he was going to go on forever

00:52but he suddenly became ill quite, around the time when my mum was near to the end with cancer, so it's sort of double whammy really.