{"id":373421,"date":"2025-12-28T16:48:04","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T16:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/373421\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T16:48:04","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T16:48:04","slug":"brigitte-bardot-french-actress-and-animal-rights-activist-dies-aged-91","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/373421\/","title":{"rendered":"Brigitte Bardot, French actress and animal rights activist, dies aged 91"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How the news broke in the French Riviera, where Bardot livedpublished at 12:39 GMT<\/p>\n<p>12:39 GMT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-8kvzjk-Contributor etflsgg2\">Pierre-Antoine Denis<br \/>Reporting from Nice, southern France<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">I was driving with my parents when a special announcement came on France\u2019s main commercial radio station, RTL.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The tone was immediately sombre. The presenter opened by calling Brigitte Bardot a true legend, saying there would be time for sadness later, but for now the entire newsroom was focused on bringing listeners special coverage. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">By the time I arrived home in Nice, close to where Bardot used to live, every French news channel had reshaped its usual weekend schedules to focus on Bardot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Coverage was organised around the defining chapters of her life: acting, modelling, singing and, what many described as her life\u2019s calling, her animal welfare foundation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">For those of us in the South of France, everyone has seen or has a story involving Bardot &#8211; from her dazzling Cannes during the film festival, to her elegant appearances in the many fancy restaurants on the French Riviera.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As I heard someone put it to French TV earlier, La Riviera is Bardot and Bardot is La Riviera<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"How the news broke in the French Riviera, where Bardot livedpublished at 12:39 GMT 12:39 GMT Pierre-Antoine DenisReporting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":373422,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,48,361,75],"class_list":["post-373421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/373422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}