Los Angeles politician honors Betty White's interaction connected metropolis and work to zoo
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti said Betty White "made an tremendous interaction connected the beingness of our city," adding that the metropolis volition beryllium "forever grateful" for her work to the Los Angeles Zoo.
"The City of L.A. volition beryllium everlastingly grateful for her years of work to the L.A. Zoo connected behalf of the animals successful our attraction and the radical who emotion them," Garcetti said successful a bid of tweets
"Her vocation successful Hollywood blessed america with lukewarm memories that volition ever unrecorded successful our hearts," the politician added.
White was an carnal person and spokesperson for carnal welfare, serving arsenic a trustee of the Morris Animal Foundation for much than 40 years.
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Tributes statesman to determination successful pursuing Betty White's death
Actors, directors, comedians and different members of the amusement manufacture are mourning the decease of Betty White connected societal media.
Here's a look astatine immoderate tributes being shared truthful far:
Disney's erstwhile main enforcement and long-time enforcement president Bob Iger
Actress Bridget Moynahan
Filmmaker Kevin Smith
Actor LeVar Burton
Actor Mario Lopez
Actor George Takei
Comedian Kathy Griffin
Actor Henry Winkler
Journalist Dan Rather
Comedian Seth Myers
Comedian Andy Cohen
Fans stitchery astir Betty White's Hollywood star
Gregg Donovan was among a radical of fans gathered astatine Betty White's prima connected the Hollywood Walk of Fame to wage respect to the precocious histrion Friday afternoon.
Donovan said helium was shocked upon proceeding the quality of her decease and brought flowers to spot connected her star.
Betty White was honored during the 2018 Emmy Awards for her much than 80 years successful amusement business
From CNN's Chloe Melas
Betty White took the signifier astatine the 2018 Emmy Awards to a lasting ovation.
White was honored for her much than 80 years successful amusement business, including respective decades successful television.
“Somebody said thing the different time astir archetypal woman of television, and I took it arsenic a large compliment,” White said. “Then came the punchline, ‘And past I heard her talking to her girl a small later, and she said, ‘first lady, she’s that old. She was the archetypal 1 mode back.’”
White, who starred connected deed shows similar “The Golden Girls” and “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” was besides poignant.
She got the assemblage laughing again with a gag astir “Saturday Night Live” creator Lorne Michaels.
“I privation to convey Lorne Michaels, not lone this contiguous but each the fantastic things helium has done with me, nary for me,” White quipped. “All I tin accidental is it’s specified a blessed concern to beryllium successful and however fortunate tin beryllium I beryllium and however overmuch I accidental convey you to each and each 1 of you.”
President Biden calls Betty White "a beauteous lady"
From CNN's Betsy Klein
The President reacted to quality that actress Betty White has died astatine 99, conscionable weeks abbreviated of her 100th birthday.
"That’s a shame, she was a beauteous lady,” Biden told reporters successful Wilmington, Delaware. "Ninety-nine years old, my parent would accidental 'God emotion her,' incredible.”
First woman Jill Biden added, “Who didn’t emotion Betty White. We’re truthful bittersweet astir her death.”
Ryan Reynolds connected Betty White: "She was large astatine defying expectation"
Actor Ryan Reynolds said the "world looks different" pursuing Betty White's passing astatine property 99.
The histrion said successful a tweet that White "was large astatine defying expectation" and "managed to turn precise aged and somehow, not aged enough."
The two starred in the 2009 movie "The Proposal," and ever since, Reynolds had been publically calling White his "ex-girlfriend."
The iconic histrion responded successful an interrogation with People, saying, "I've heard Ryan can't get implicit his happening for me, but Robert Redford is The One."
Reynolds responded with a tweet, joking, "I'm perfectly sick of the media exploiting past relationships conscionable to thrust clicks."
Reynolds is acceptable to look successful a peculiar movie event adjacent period honoring what would person been White's 100th day
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CNN's Marianne Garvey contributed reporting to this post.
Betty White shared her secrets to happiness up of turning 100
From CNN's Chloe Melas
Betty White, a nationalist treasure, was weeks distant from celebrating her 100th birthday.
The award-winning histrion spoke to People Magazine ahead of the milestone, saying, "I'm truthful fortunate to beryllium successful specified bully wellness and consciousness truthful bully astatine this age. It's amazing," White said.
White revealed a concealed to her longevity, joking that she tries "to debar thing green" successful her diet.
"I deliberation it's working," she quipped.
White has starred successful bid similar "The Golden Girls" and "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" implicit the years and says she present lives a quieter life, playing crossword puzzles and paper games, according to the magazine. She besides loves to ticker wildlife documentaries, "Jeopardy!" and golf.
"I got it from my mom, and that ne'er changed," she said.
Actor Marlon Wayans says helium thought White would "live forever"
Actor Marlon Wayans joined successful a chorus of praise for the precocious Betty White, calling the histrion "an inspiration of however to unrecorded this damn life."
Wayans shared his thoughts astir the precocious "Golden Girls" prima connected Facebook Friday afternoon.
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Ellen DeGeneres: "I'm grateful for each 2nd I got to walk with Betty White"
Fellow comedian Ellen DeGeneres honored Betty White successful a tweet, saying she is "grateful for each second" she got to walk with the erstwhile "Golden Girls" actress.
White appeared multiple times connected DeGeneres' show.
See her tweet: