http://www.northampton-news-hp.co.uk/8203-Judy-Carne-dies-Northampton-s-Sock-girl-dies/story-27748796-detail/story.html

HOAX!ohno:

http://en.mediamass.net/people/judy-carne/deathhoax.html

OMG!!! Are you serious??????? Well I'm glad she didn't pass, but why in the world would someone do a hoax like this? That is SICK!!!

OMG!!! Are you serious??????? Well I'm glad she didn't pass, but why in the world would someone do a hoax like this? That is SICK!!!

It is every bit of sick as the Paul McCartney is dead hoax.

My brother thinks Ruth Buzzi is dead, but she's still around!

Link (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11849234/Judy-Carne-actress-obituary.html#disqus_thread)

Judy Carne, who has died aged 76, was a bouncy, auburn-haired British actress who won overnight fame in the 1960s as the Sock It To Me girl on the hit television show Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In; she returned, albeit briefly, to the limelight in 1985 when she published an autobiography in which she told of her volatile relationship with her first husband Burt Reynolds, confessed to a string of affairs with members of both sexes and chronicled battles with drug addiction.


A fairly successful television actress when she joined the cast of Laugh-in in 1968, as the Sock It To Me girl Judy Carne became the most popular person on the show for her zany, daffy, mini-skirted comic persona, continually getting doused with a bucket of water, or subjected to some other humiliation, every time she uttered the words “Sock it to me!”


Judy Carne remained with the show for two years but left in the middle of the third series complaining that it had become “ a big, bloody bore”, though it was noted that her disenchantment coincided with the emergence of Goldie Hawn as the show’s female star.


After she left Laugh-In Judy Carne became a heroin addict and her career went into a tailspin. Her problems worsened to the extent that when she published her autobiography Laughing on the Outside, Crying on the Inside (written with the help of a former companion, Bob Merrill), one reviewer remarked that “for a person with evidently no sense of judgment about people and… no sense of internal perspective, it is noteworthy enough that [she] lived long enough to tell such a tale, much less publish it.”

Judy Carne herself once observed: “I’m a 1960s flowerchild who has refused to grow up. Mature and responsible are words I don’t understand.”

She was born Joyce Audrey Botterill on April 27 1939 and brought up at Kingsthorpe, near Northampton, where her parents ran a greengrocer’s shop. As a child she showed a talent for acting and dancing and went on to train at the Bush Davies Theatrical School for Girls at East Grinstead. She made her West End debut in 1956 in the revue For Amusement Only and her television debut the same year in The First Day of Spring.

She went on to build a solid career on British television, including appearing as a panellist on Juke Box Jury and in the sit-com The Rag Trade. In 1961 she appeared in the film comedy A Pair of Briefs. Her conquests at this time, she claimed, included Vidal Sassoon, Stirling Moss and the actor Anthony Newley. “How lucky to be 18 years old and go with Vidal Sassoon. And to be with Stirling Moss at 19. What a privilege,” she recalled.

Moving to the United States in the early 1960s, she was first introduced to American audiences as Heather Finch, a British exchange student, in the television comedy series Fair Exchange (1962). She went on to play the daughter of a tycoon who falls in love with a poor boy in The Baileys of Balboa (1964-5) and had a small part as a “nameless broad” found in bed with James Coburn in the film The Americanisation of Emily (1964). She also appeared in The Man from U.N.C.L.E and in the ABC sitcom Love on a Rooftop (1966-67).

After leaving Laugh-in, Judy Carne starred as Polly in The Boyfriend on Broadway and appeared on talk and game shows. Yet by the mid-1970s she was making headlines for all the wrong reasons.

In 1963 she had married Burt Reynolds, recalling that when they first met “we were immediately in love, so we immediately made love. I was engulfed by him, my small body lost in his large frame.” After their marriage, he became abusive, she alleged. They divorced in 1966.

There followed one-night stands with Steve McQueen and Warren Beatty, and what she described as “a meaningful relationship with a woman for a year and a half”, before 1970 when she married Robert Bergmann, a unemployed man she described as “very bright – he’s been an assistant producer, done modelling and handled stocks”. The marriage lasted for six months, but Bergmann came back into her life in the late 1970s. “We helped each other,” she told an interviewer. “We went to a dance class, and to a group therapy class where you shout your angers.”


By this time, an experimental use of drugs had developed into full-blown addiction. Her life hit rock bottom in 1977 and 1978 when, in the space of four months, she was busted three times – on charges ranging from drug possession to car theft. At the end of March 1978 she was rushed to hospital after collapsing with “vertigo and nausea”, owing to a possible drug overdose. In June that year, while celebrating her acquittal on charges of heroin possession, she and Bergmann (who was driving) were involved in a near-fatal car accident which left her with a broken neck.

The following year she was charged with heroin possession and prescription forgery. She was acquitted of the heroin charge. When the jury couldn’t reach a verdict over the forgery, a new trial was set but Judy Carne failed to show up for it, so she was charged with contempt of court and a warrant was issued for her arrest.

It was around this time that she moved back to Northampton, where she began work on her book. She claimed that the process of writing had helped her to put her life back together again, but it would be some time before her troubles were properly resolved.

In later life, however, Judy Carne did find an element of peace in the village of Pitsford, Northamptonshire, where she lived a quiet life with two dogs and was much liked by her neighbours.

Judy Carne, born April 27 1939, died September 3 2015

Now I am confused? variety.com/2015/tv/news/judy-carne-dead-laugh-in-sock-it-to-me-1201587506

Variety is a reliable source, that medimass crap site is not

Now I am confused? variety.com/2015/tv/news/judy-carne-dead-laugh-in-sock-it-to-me-1201587506


I am too! :confused:

HOAX!ohno:

http://en.mediamass.net/people/judy-carne/deathhoax.html

That site also claimed that Judy Carne was the World's highest-paid actress. :rolleyes:

Judy Carne - Highest-Paid Actress in the World (http://en.mediamass.net/people/judy-carne/highest-paid.html)

So is she dead? Many conflicting reports?:confused:

I made the mistake of believing the hoax.

Lots of people believed it was a hoax mainly because no U.S. site mentioned it until several hours after the first confirmed report. I was having doubts also but it seemed legit especially with the Facebook posting by her niece.

So is she dead? Many conflicting reports?:confused:

Confirmed by at least 3 reliable sites

Link (https://news.google.com/news/story?ncl=dVQKne-cAbqd7XMYffC5WlorOZmHM&q=judy+carne&lr=English&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CCAQqgIwAGoVChMI8-vs0vblxwIViNWACh1pgQL6)

And her niece...

http://www.facebook.com/marnie.butcher1

Feeling very sad after finding out today my Auntie Judy passed away 😢😢😢and being on holiday in Tenerife makes it even harder 😢😢RIP Judy carne your not suffering anymore xxx

I guess it's true if Variety says so. There have been so many of these internet hoaxes that one doesn't know what to believe. If it's true RIP Judy. :( It's too bad that a person's life or death has to be in question. As someone earlier stated, "That's sick!" :mad:

Just to remind everyone................Paul is NOT dead!:lol:

Does anybody know what she died from?

Does anybody know what she died from?

Pneumonia according to the first report.

http://www.sitcomsonline.com/boards/showthread.php?t=340522

My brother thinks Ruth Buzzi is dead, but she's still around!

And very active on Twitter (https://twitter.com/Ruth_A_Buzzi?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor)

I guess it's true if Variety says so. There have been so many of these internet hoaxes that one doesn't know what to believe. If it's true RIP Judy. :( It's too bad that a person's life or death has to be in question. As someone earlier stated, "That's sick!" :mad:

OMG! I know! It's horrible that somebody dies and than they think it's funny to make a hoax saying that she really wasn't dead!:( They need to have some respect ! How would those people making up a hoax like that like it if that happened to one of their family or loved ones? Death isn't something to joke around with! :mad:


So if Judy really did pass. RIP, as I posted before we thought it was a hoax! I think that is all I'll say till further notice! :confused:

Judy Carne, Star of 'Laugh-In,' Dies at 76

She was known as the "Sock-It-To-Me Girl."


Link (http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/judy-carne-star-laugh-dies-820866)

Judy Carne, the British actress best known for the phrase "Sock it to me" on Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, has died. She passed away after suffering from pneumonia at Northampton General Hospital, the same U.K. town in which she was born in 1939. She was 76.

Carne's death was announced on Facebook by her cousin Marnie Butcher, according to the Northampton Herald and Post. "RIP Judy Carne, you're not suffering anymore," Butcher wrote.

The daughter of two greengrocers, Carne rose to fame on U.K. television screens in the early 1960s, starring in Danger Man (1961) and The Rag Trade (1961), but soon packed her bags and headed the U.S., just ahead of The Beatles and the so-called British Invasion.


The mid-1960s would see her become a familiar face in American sitcoms, starting with a regular role in Fair Exchange (1963) alongside Eddie Foy Jr., followed by The Baileys of Balboa (1964) and Love on a Rooftop (1966). She also appeared in the popular spy show The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

While promoting Fair Exchange in 1963, Carne met and married then up-and-coming actor Burt Reynolds, and once recollected their first passionate meeting: "We were immediately in love, so we immediately made love. I was engulfed by him, my small body lost in his large frame." However, she claimed Reynolds soon became abusive, and they divorced in 1966.

One-night stands with Steve McQueen and Warren Beatty followed. There was also what she later recollected to be a “meaningful relationship with a woman for a year and a half.”

After a couple of movie roles, including The Americanization of Emily and A Pair of Briefs, Carne landed what would go on to be her most popular role. On sketch comedy program Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, which ran from 1968-1973, Carne featured in a routine that would end with her saying “sock it to me” before being doused with water or otherwise assaulted. She starred in the first two seasons but returned for occasional appearances.

By now, she was one of the biggest household names — if not the progenitor of one of the most famous catchphrases — on U.S. television. But the good times didn't last. Towards the end of the 1970s, Carne’s experimental drug use turned into fully fledged addiction and, in 1977 and 1978, she was arrested by the police three times. In March 1978, a possible drug overdose saw her rushed to hospital, and in June she was involved in a near-fatal car crash.

After being released from hospital with a broken neck, she returned to her home town of Northampton.

Carne's descent into addiction, together with her failed marriage to Reynolds and bisexuality, was outlined in her 1985 autobiography Laughing on the Outside, Crying on the Inside: The Bittersweet Saga of the Sock-It-To-Me Girl.

In her later years, Carne resided in the small U.K. village of Pitsford with her two dogs.

So very sad. R.I.P. Judy. :(

Rest in Peace Judy.

When I see a obit, I tend to believe someone has died.