Posted on 09/10/2020 10:22:41 PM PDT by L.A.Justice
007 Star George Lazenby has posted a moving tribute to the late Dame Diana Rigg.
The British actress has died at the age of 82 following a private battle with cancer.
Lazenby and Rigg appeared alongside each other in the 1969 James Bond film On Her Majesty's Secret Service, with Rigg playing the feisty Contessa Teresa "Tracy" di Vicenzo Draco.
In the film, Diana played the first on-screen 'Bond girl' to win Bond's heart and become his wife, Tracy Bond.
Tragically, the character was killed-off in a drive-by shooting at the film's conclusion.
Now, one-time Bond actor George Lazenby, 81, has shared his own moving tribute to his former co-star.
Sharing a promotional image of the pair from the 1960s on Instagram, George penned: "I'm so sad to hear of the death of Diana Rigg.
(Excerpt) Read more at mirror.co.uk ...
"As my new bride, Tracy Bond, I wept for her loss. Now, upon hearing of Dame Diana's death, I weep again."
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Mr. Lazenby also denied that he and she had a terrible relationship on the movie set...He blamed the media for creating that perception...
She was a great "Bond girl"... I do like the film ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE...
In many ways, one of the best Bond films.
Diana Rigg will be missed.
In the film wasn’t she offed inadvertently by Telly Savalas firing at wooden man Lazenby?
Didn’t she promote “Jaguar” cologne? I loved her character ib Game of thrones.
In the first third of the movie Bond girls seem to have had 90+% fatality.
(or did I get that wrong, can’t remember/haven’t seen them all)
What a recipe for a series.
Down near the end of the article is this: "Diana could not be reached for comment at the time by the publication."
There is something very mesmerizing about the ice racing scene.
My father had a crush on her, we watched Mrs. Peel and the Avengers.
In Thunderball, one of the “girls” gets shot (by a bullet aimed at him) while they’re on the dance floor.
Bond (Connery) dances her over to a seat, sits her down, and says to the couple at the table, “Don’t mind my friend here. She’s just dead.”
Seems somehow that happened a lot.
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I guess they didn't attend my 18 year old niece's funeral...or my Mom's...or my Dad's.
She was in showbiz.Big deal.Was she talented? Perhaps...I'm not that familiar with her work.But even if she was that doesn't make her death any more important than the many fine people whose funerals I've attended.
(End anti showbiz rant)
I was in high school in those days, and absolutely had a crush on her.
I was too young to have a crush on her but at the time the Avengers was an odd weird show compared to more conventional tv dramas from my perspective. There were some other shows like that as well that one could appreciate later as one grew up and was no longer a child.
I had a crush on Diana Rigg and on her Lotus Elan.
I hate getting old...all those beautiful women I adored and admired are now old and dying!!!!!!
Yup. I was a teenager at the time.
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