{"id":215943,"date":"2026-01-11T01:27:32","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T01:27:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/11\/celebrity-deaths-of-2026-grateful-deads-bob-weir-and-more-stars-we-lost\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T01:27:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T01:27:32","slug":"celebrity-deaths-of-2026-grateful-deads-bob-weir-and-more-stars-we-lost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/11\/celebrity-deaths-of-2026-grateful-deads-bob-weir-and-more-stars-we-lost\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrity Deaths of 2026: Grateful Dead&#8217;s Bob Weir and More Stars We Lost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"gallery-current\">\n<p>Hollywood mourned the deaths of some of its most legendary stars in 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The year started off with the sad news that Broadway performer and influencer <strong>Bret Hanna-Shuford<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/influencer-bret-hanna-shuford-dead-at-46-broadway-alum-battled-cancer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">died at age 46<\/a> after being diagnosed with T-Cell Lymphoma. His husband, <strong>Stephen Hanna-Shuford<\/strong>, confirmed on January 3 that the <em>Beauty and the Beast<\/em> actor \u201cleft this world peacefully with love, surrounded by his family.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"news-block\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-form  \">\n<div class=\"newsletter-signup__success\" aria-live=\"polite\">\n<h3>Thank You!<\/h3>\n<p>You have successfully subscribed.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>On January 8, 2026, PBS TV chef <strong>Elle Simone Scott<\/strong> \u2014 who broke barriers as the first Black woman to join cooking show <em>America\u2019s Test Kitchen<\/em> \u2014 died at age 49 following a long battle with ovarian cancer.<\/p>\n<p>News broke on January 10 that <strong>T.K. Carter<\/strong>, a veteran actor known for appearing in <em>The Thing<\/em> and <em>Punky Brewster<\/em>, was found dead at age 69 in Duarte, California. That same day, Grateful Dead cofounder <strong>Bob Weir<\/strong>\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/bob-weir-dead-at-78-grateful-dead-founder-succumbed-to-lung-issues\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">death at age 78<\/a> was confirmed when he succumbed to \u201clung issues\u201d after being diagnosed with cancer in July 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Scroll down to remember all the stars who died in 2026:<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/pictures\/celebrity-deaths-of-2026-grateful-deads-bob-weir-and-more-stars-we-lost\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hollywood mourned the deaths of some of its most legendary stars in 2026. The year started off with the sad news that Broadway performer and influencer Bret Hanna-Shuford died at age 46 after being diagnosed with T-Cell Lymphoma. His husband, Stephen Hanna-Shuford, confirmed on January 3 that the Beauty and the Beast actor \u201cleft this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":215944,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-215943","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrity"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}