Actress Sandra Bullock, who was the feminine lead in The Proposal, raised a glass to White.
“I do not drink vodka… however I’ll tonight, on ice, with a slice of lemon with a sizzling canine on the opposite facet and simply be okay being unhappy. I am going to have to purchase some rose-coloured glasses as a result of Betty was that for all of us,” she mentioned in an announcement to leisure portal ET.
In White’s 80-year profession, she touched many stars together with her heat and her wit, and so they flooded social media with their recollections and photographs of her.
Comic-host Seth Meyers, who was on Saturday Night time Reside, wrote: “RIP Betty White, the one SNL host I ever noticed get a standing ovation on the after occasion. A celebration at which she ordered a vodka and a sizzling canine and stayed until the bitter finish.”
Speak present host Ellen DeGeneres wrote on Twitter: “What an distinctive life. I am grateful for each second I acquired to spend with Betty White.”
Star Trek actor George Takei referred to as her “our nationwide treasure” and referenced her iconic roles in his Twitter submit: “Our Sue Ann Nivens, our beloved Rose Nylund, has joined the heavens to thrill the celebs together with her inimitable type, humour and appeal.”
A few of her best-known roles have been Nivens on sitcom The Mary Tyler Moore Present (1973 to 1977) and Nylund on long-running sitcom The Golden Ladies (1985 to 1992).
