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It seems that every time we turn around, another beloved celebrity is passing away. Today, it is with heavy heart that we report yet another celebrity death. Rest in peace Gidget, the Chihuahua who starred in a series of Taco Bell commercials and made famous the phrase "¡Yo quiero Taco Bell!"

Gidget died of a stroke Tuesday at the ripe old age of 15, People Pets reports. She'd lived in comfortable semiretirement since the heyday of the Taco Bell advertising campaign, occasionally making cameo appearances (hawking insurance alongside the GEICO gecko in a 2002 commercial and playing the mother of Reese Witherspoon's Chihuahua, Bruiser, in the sequel to "Legally Blonde").

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Geez, You frightened me, Miss Kah Nee , I thought Sally Field had passed.

This explains the news story I just caught the tail end of (no pun intended). Sail on, Gidget. Hope there's lots of taco bell food waiting for you and your friends at the Rainbow Bridge.

Sail on, Gidget.

Good Lord, you scared the crap outta me... I thought Kathy Kohner-Zuckerman (the real-life Gidget) had passed....

I had the pleasure of meeting her once at Duke's in Malibu. She's a very charming lady!


oh, ah, sail on, Gidget-pooch.

suddenly I've got a hankering for a burrito..

Sail on little Gidget.. Yo Queiro Taco Bell !

Sail on Gidget

NEO wrote:Geez, You frightened me, Miss Kah Nee , I thought Sally Field had passed.

Me too!!!!


Sail on Gidget!!!!! you were a cute little doggie!

Sail on Gidget !!

Loved those commercials.

Sail on, Gidget.......

resting in (tasty bite-size) peace at a taco Bell near one of us, I imagine

flipflopgirl wrote:

NEO wrote:Geez, You frightened me, Miss Kah Nee , I thought Sally Field had passed.

Me too!!!!


Sail on Gidget!!!!! you were a cute little doggie!

That was the first thought in my mind too.

Sail on, little Gidget.
You done yourself proud.

15 good dog years! Sail on little doggie!

I saw this in the paper this morning. She sounded like a great dog, that just really loved people

Sail on Gidget!! (I have a Taco Bell doggie with a spring on the bottom that you put on your dashboard-it stayed there until I got a shark with a grass skirt)

Sail on Gidget, may you have an endless supply of fire hydrants in dog heaven...

SchoolGirlHeart wrote:Good Lord, you scared the crap outta me... I thought Kathy Kohner-Zuckerman (the real-life Gidget) had passed....

I had the pleasure of meeting her once at Duke's in Malibu. She's a very charming lady!


oh, ah, sail on, Gidget-pooch.

Oddly enough this was my first thought too! Sally field was a close second.

Sail on, Gidget.

Sail on, Gidget. Hope you catch that steenkin' leezard...

ahhh dern that makes me sad.

I loved that pup.....still got my Taco Bell dog at home, only the battery died so he doesnt talk any more.