{"id":339491,"date":"2025-12-28T16:05:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T16:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/339491\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T16:05:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T16:05:08","slug":"brigitte-bardot-french-actress-and-animal-rights-activist-dies-aged-91","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/339491\/","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":339294,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-339491","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}