The appearance won her a seventh Emmy award.Ī month later, cable’s TV Land premiered “Hot In Cleveland,” the network’s first original scripted series, which starred Valerie Bertinelli, Jane Leeves and Wendie Malick as three past-their-prime show-biz veterans who move to Cleveland to escape the youth obsession of Hollywood. The instantly-viral video helped spark a Facebook campaign called “Betty White to Host SNL (please?)!,” whose half-million fans led to her co-hosting “Saturday Night Live” in a much-watched, much-hailed edition that Mother’s Day weekend. White, flat on the ground and covered in mud, fired back, “That’s not what your girlfriend said!” “Mike, you’re playing like Betty White out there,” jeered one of his chums. In a Snickers commercial that premiered during that year’s Super Bowl telecast, she impersonated an energy-sapped dude getting tackled during a backlot football game. Her combination of sweetness and edginess gave life to a roster of quirky characters in shows from the sitcom “Life With Elizabeth” in the early 1950s to oddball Rose Nylund in “The Golden Girls” in the ’80s to “Boston Legal,” which ran from 2004 to 2008.īut it was in 2010 that White’s stardom erupted as never before. White launched her TV career in daytime talk shows when the medium was still in its infancy and endured well into the age of cable and streaming. “She managed to grow very old and somehow, not old enough. “She was great at defying expectation,” Ryan Reynolds, who starred alongside her in the comedy “The Proposal,” tweeted. Added the president: “Ninety-nine years old.
“We loved Betty White,” first lady Jill Biden said as she and President Joe Biden left a restaurant in Wilmington, Delaware. Her death brought tributes from celebrities and politicians alike. It was unclear if she died Thursday night or Friday, he said. Witjas said White had been staying close to her Los Angeles home during the pandemic out of caution but had no diagnosed illness. She was the most positive person I’ve ever known.” “I truly never thought she was going to pass away,” Witjas told The Associated Press. White’s death was confirmed Friday by Jeff Witjas, her longtime agent and friend. LOS ANGELES - Betty White, whose saucy, up-for-anything charm made her a television mainstay for more than 60 years, whether as a man-crazy TV hostess on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” or the loopy housemate on “The Golden Girls,” has died.
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