Eric McCormack, Sean Hayes, RuPaul and different celebrities react to Leslie Jordan's dying

Muricas News  — 

The surprising passing of tv star and social media darling Leslie Jordan has spurred a flood of heartfelt tributes.

The actor died on Monday, his expertise agent Sarabeth Schedeen instructed Muricas News in a press release. He was 67.

Jordan’s most recognizable credit score was his time on “Will & Grace” as Beverley Leslie, a task he reprised all through the present’s run, together with its latest reboot.

Co-star Eric McCormack posted two tributes to Jordan on his Instagram, with one exhibiting exhibiting the pair performing for the cameras on the present.

“Crushed to study in regards to the lack of @thelesliejordan, the funniest and flirtiest southern gent I’ve ever recognized,” McCormack wrote within the caption. “The enjoyment and laughter he introduced to each certainly one of his #WillandGrace episodes was palpable. Gone about 30 years too quickly. You have been beloved candy man.”

Sean Hayes, who performed Jack on the NBC sitcom, additionally shared a photograph, calling Jordan “one of the funniest individuals I ever had the pleasure of working with.”

“Everybody who ever met him, beloved him. There'll by no means be anybody like him,” he wrote. “A singular expertise with an infinite, caring coronary heart. Leslie, you can be missed, my pricey buddy.”

The official account for “RuPaul’s Drag Race,” on which Jordan acted as a visitor choose, additionally shared a tribute, thanking Jordan on Twitter for “the numerous laughs and for sharing your spirit with us all.”

Celebrities from throughout tv and movie – each those that labored with Jordan and never – additionally honored the actor.

“Leslie was such a lightweight for thus many,” actress Michelle Pfeiffer wrote on Instagram. “Generously gifting the world together with his love and humor, particularly throughout this lockdown; certainly one of our bleakest and loneliest instances. He lived on a regular basis to deliver pleasure to each one he got here in touch with.”

Loni Love shared a candy reminiscence, writing that the final time they labored collectively was after they each visitor co-hosted CBS’s “The Discuss” and Jordan “was a lot enjoyable to be round.”

“[He] all the time had a shaggy dog story and he impressed me to maintain entering into an trade that could possibly be ageist,” she wrote. “I'll miss you my buddy. Mama is ready on you.”

On Twitter, Lynda Carter remembered Jordan for being somebody who “put a smile on the faces of so many, particularly together with his pandemic movies.”

“What a feat to maintain us all laughing and linked in such troublesome instances,” she wrote. “It feels so merciless that this might occur to such a lovely soul.”

Jordan’s most up-to-date position was on Fox’s “Name Me Kat.” The present, which is at the moment in its third season, halted filming in wake of the information of Jordan’s dying, in keeping with a Fox Leisure spokesperson.

In a press release offered to Muricas News, Fox Leisure mentioned Jordan “was excess of an Emmy Award successful comedic expertise with whom we’ve laughed alongside for all these years. He was the kindest individual you would ever think about who merely lit up a room and introduced pure pleasure and large smiles to thousands and thousands of individuals all over the world.”