Betty White has died at age 99, just weeks shy of her 100th birthday, ET can confirm.
history -- after hundreds of thousands of her fans demanded it in a social media campaign.
After seven decades on TV, the Daytime Emmys honored White with a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2015. “When I started in 1949, I had no idea that I would still be around at this point, for one thing,” she said upon receiving the award, “but that I'd still be privileged enough to still be in this business, and it is such a privilege.”
"Wilderness is getting harder and harder to find these days on our beautiful planet and we’re abusing our planet to the point of almost no return," White said at the event."In my heart I’ve been a forest ranger all my life, but now I’m official." It’s tempting to conflate Betty White the person with her fictional personas, particularly the syrupy and naive ones, but to do so is to diminish her, unfairly.
in 2011. “She found me a pain in the neck sometimes because of my…positive attitude. I’m happy all the time, and that made Bea mad.”Not surprisingly, White had many friends. But one person among all others was her favorite: Allen Ludden, the host of, on which she was a recurring contestant. They married in 1963, after she declined two of his earlier proposals. He was her third husband.
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