Survivor castaway Sunday Burquest dies at age 50 following cancer battle
By Elizabeth Kwiatkowski, 04/21/2021
Survivorcastaway Sunday Burquest has passed away after a cancer recurrence.
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Sunday, a youth pastor who competed on
Survivor: Millennials vs. Gen X, died at age 50 after battling esophageal and ovarian cancer, with which she had been diagnosed in June 2020.
Sunday s daughter Kennedy confirmed her mother s passing with a touching Instagram post shared by TMZ. To my unbelievably beautiful mama, thank you. Thank you for fighting as hard as you did for as long as you did. Thank you for being a best friend, a role model, a sister, and my mother all in one. Thank you for raising me to love Jesus, and show that love to others. That s something you did so well, Kennedy wrote.
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Fans of reality TV may not personally know the on-screen personalities that participate in the shows, but it can sometimes feel like youâre really getting to know a person while watching them bare all their emotions in the comfort of your own living room. Thatâs why a celebrity death like Sunday Burquest, who appeared as a contestant on
Survivor, may hit pretty hard. Jeff Probst, host and producer of the long-running CBS reality series, has now paid tribute to Burquest after she lost her battle to cancer at age 50.
Jeff Probst has been host of CBSâs
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Songwriter and producer Jim Steinem, known for his work with hit-makers like Meat Loaf, Barry Manilow and Celine Dion, has died,
according to the Connecticut Chief Medical Examiner s office.
He was 73.
Steinman s brother, Bill Steinman, told The Associated Press that his brother died Monday from kidney failure and was ill for some time. He said Jim died in Connecticut near his home in Ridgefield.
“I miss him a great deal already,” Bill said.
Jim Steinman was born in New York City and got his start writing musicals. He first met Meat Loaf while working on the musical More Than You Love, and the two went on to collaborate on the rock and roll singer s multi-platinum 1977 debut album Bat Out of Hell.
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