{"id":255479,"date":"2025-12-28T10:37:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T10:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/255479\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T10:37:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T10:37:09","slug":"french-actress-brigitte-bardot-dies-aged-91","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/255479\/","title":{"rendered":"French actress Brigitte Bardot dies aged 91"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>French actress and model Brigitte Bardot has died at 91, her foundation has said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Brigitte Bardot Foundation announces with immense sadness the death of its founder and president, Madame Brigitte Bardot, a world-renowned actress and singer, who chose to abandon her prestigious career to dedicate her life and energy to animal welfare and her foundation,&#8221; it said in a statement sent to AFP, without specifying the time or place of death.<\/p>\n<p>Bardot became a global star after appearing in &#8230;And God created Woman in 1956, and went on to appear in about 50 more movies before giving up acting to devote herself to defending animal rights.<\/p>\n<p>She retired from film to settle permanently near the Riviera resort of Saint-Tropez where she devoted herself to fighting for animals.<\/p>\n<p>Her calling apparently came when she encountered a goat on the set of her final film, The Edifying and Joyous Story of Colinot.<\/p>\n<p>To save it from being killed, she bought the animal and kept it in her hotel room.<\/p>\n<p><b>More to follow&#8230;.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Source: AFP<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"French actress and model Brigitte Bardot has died at 91, her foundation has said. &#8220;The Brigitte Bardot Foundation&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255480,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[18,117,19,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-255479","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115796760654454697","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}