{"id":129694,"date":"2025-10-03T09:13:19","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T14:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=129694"},"modified":"2025-10-03T09:13:39","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T14:13:39","slug":"keeping-up-appearances-star-dame-patricia-routledge-dies-at-96-entertainment-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=129694","title":{"rendered":"\u201cKeeping Up Appearances\u201d Star Dame Patricia Routledge Dies at 96 \u2013 Entertainment News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1545664804358300\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block; text-align: center;\" data-ad-layout=\"in-article\" data-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1545664804358300\" data-ad-slot=\"8616314829\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=129694\" rel=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=129694\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-129695 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/download-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"290\" height=\"174\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>By Karen Beishuizen<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>&#8220;Bouquet Residence, lady of the house speaking&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Hyacinth Bucket is gone. The snobish social-climber is no more.<\/p>\n<p>Dame Patricia Routledge died on 3 October. She was 96.<\/p>\n<p>Born in the north of England near Liverpool, Dame Patricia made a name for herself on stage in the U.K. and later the U.S., winning a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical in 1968 for \u201cDarling of the Day,\u201d following this up with an Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical for \u201cCandide\u201d 20 years later.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>She was as adept at serious drama as she was at musicals and comedy &#8211; she appeared in Richard III and Henry V at the Royal Shakepseare Company.<\/p>\n<p>But the actress became best known for her performances in TV, especially her turn as the overbearing, flowery-dressed Bucket \u2014 which her character famously insisted was pronounced \u201cBouquet\u201d \u2014 in \u201cKeeping Up Appearances,\u201d which ran from 1990 to 1995.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She&#8217;s an absolute monster and I enjoyed playing her enormously,&#8221; the actress said.<\/p>\n<p>Despite only running for five seasons, it would have a lasting legacy, and for a time was the most successful British show internationally. The comedy amassed huge audiences in the U.S., Canada, Australia, Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Norway, Ireland, Belgium, and the Netherlands, and in 2016 was named as BBC Worldwide\u2019s most exported TV show ever.<\/p>\n<p>In 1991, Routledge won a British Comedy Award for her portrayal as Bucket, and she was later nominated for two BAFTA TV Awards in 1992 and 1993.<br \/>\nFollowing on from \u201cKeeping Up Appearances,\u201d Dame Patricia starred in the crime drama series \u201cHetty Wainthropp Investigates,\u201d about a retired woman who has a knack for solving crimes. It ran from 1996 to 1998.<br \/>\nIn 2017, Dame Patricia was given a Damehood by Queen Elizabeth II for her services to entertainment and charity.<\/p>\n<p>Dame Patricia never married and had no children.<\/p>\n<p>Ringside Report sends their condolences to Dame Patricia\u2019s Family in their time of grief.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #808000;\"><a style=\"color: #808000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.authorhouse.com\/en\/bookstore\/bookdetails\/232300-BOXING-INTERVIEWS-OF-A-LIFETIME\">Click Here to Order Boxing Interviews Of A Lifetime By &#8220;Bad&#8221; Brad Berkwitt<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"wpforms-container wpforms-container-full\" id=\"wpforms-126533\"><form id=\"wpforms-form-126533\" class=\"wpforms-validate wpforms-form wpforms-ajax-form\" data-formid=\"126533\" method=\"post\" enctype=\"multipart\/form-data\" action=\"\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F129694\" data-token=\"657dcd84187d84d6524d05c85ad247bb\" data-token-time=\"1777635705\"><noscript class=\"wpforms-error-noscript\">Please enable JavaScript in your browser to complete this form.<\/noscript><div class=\"wpforms-field-container\"><div id=\"wpforms-126533-field_1-container\" class=\"wpforms-field wpforms-field-name\" data-field-id=\"1\"><label class=\"wpforms-field-label\">Name <span class=\"wpforms-required-label\">*<\/span><\/label><div class=\"wpforms-field-row wpforms-field-medium\"><div class=\"wpforms-field-row-block wpforms-first wpforms-one-half\"><input type=\"text\" id=\"wpforms-126533-field_1\" class=\"wpforms-field-name-first wpforms-field-required\" name=\"wpforms[fields][1][first]\" required><label for=\"wpforms-126533-field_1\" class=\"wpforms-field-sublabel after\">First<\/label><\/div><div class=\"wpforms-field-row-block wpforms-one-half\"><input type=\"text\" id=\"wpforms-126533-field_1-last\" class=\"wpforms-field-name-last wpforms-field-required\" name=\"wpforms[fields][1][last]\" required><label for=\"wpforms-126533-field_1-last\" class=\"wpforms-field-sublabel after\">Last<\/label><\/div><\/div><\/div>\t\t<div id=\"wpforms-126533-field_4-container\"\n\t\t\tclass=\"wpforms-field wpforms-field-text\"\n\t\t\tdata-field-type=\"text\"\n\t\t\tdata-field-id=\"4\"\n\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t<label class=\"wpforms-field-label\" for=\"wpforms-126533-field_4\" >Name Email Comment<\/label>\n\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" id=\"wpforms-126533-field_4\" class=\"wpforms-field-medium\" name=\"wpforms[fields][4]\" >\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div id=\"wpforms-126533-field_2-container\" class=\"wpforms-field wpforms-field-email\" data-field-id=\"2\"><label class=\"wpforms-field-label\" for=\"wpforms-126533-field_2\">Email <span class=\"wpforms-required-label\">*<\/span><\/label><input type=\"email\" id=\"wpforms-126533-field_2\" class=\"wpforms-field-medium wpforms-field-required\" name=\"wpforms[fields][2]\" spellcheck=\"false\" required><\/div><div id=\"wpforms-126533-field_3-container\" class=\"wpforms-field wpforms-field-textarea\" data-field-id=\"3\"><label class=\"wpforms-field-label\" for=\"wpforms-126533-field_3\">Comment or Message<\/label><textarea id=\"wpforms-126533-field_3\" class=\"wpforms-field-medium\" name=\"wpforms[fields][3]\" ><\/textarea><\/div><script>\n\t\t\t\t( function() {\n\t\t\t\t\tconst style = document.createElement( 'style' );\n\t\t\t\t\tstyle.appendChild( document.createTextNode( '#wpforms-126533-field_4-container { position: absolute !important; 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Hyacinth Bucket is gone. The snobish social-climber is no more. Dame Patricia Routledge died on 3 October. She was 96. Born in the north of England near Liverpool, Dame Patricia made a name for herself on stage in the U.K. and later the U.S., winning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":129695,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28132,17984],"tags":[33509],"class_list":["post-129694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-columns-by-karen-beishuizen","category-entertainment-news","tag-keeping-up-appearances-star-dame-patricia-routledge-dies-at-96-entertainment-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=129694"}],"version-history":[{"count":-3,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/129695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=129694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=129694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=129694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}