The sudden 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 informed CNN in a press release. He was 67.
Jordan’s most recognizable credit score was his time on “Will & Grace” as Beverley Leslie, a job he reprised all through the present’s run, together with its current 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 be taught concerning the lack of @thelesliejordan, the funniest and flirtiest southern gent I’ve ever identified,” 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 had been liked candy man.”
Sean Hayes, who performed Jack on the NBC sitcom, additionally shared a photo, calling Jordan “one of the funniest folks I ever had the pleasure of working with.”
“Everybody who ever met him, liked him. There’ll by no means be anybody like him,” he wrote. “A novel expertise with an unlimited, caring coronary heart. Leslie, you may be missed, my expensive 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 convey pleasure to each one he got here involved with.”
Loni Love shared a candy reminiscence, writing that the final time they labored collectively was once they each visitor co-hosted CBS’s “The Discuss” and Jordan “was a lot enjoyable to be round.”
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 demise, in accordance with a Fox Leisure spokesperson.
“[He] at all times had a shaggy dog story and he impressed me to maintain moving into an trade that may very well 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 an attractive soul.”