Laura Benanti to Zachary Levi: 'F--- you forever' for COVID vaccine comments on Broadway star's death; Benanti slammed Levi for using her friend's memory to advance a political agenda.

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  • Author(s): By:Amy Kuperinsky
  • Source:
    Star-Ledger, The: Web Edition Articles (Newark, NJ), December 7, 2024 Entertainment, 2pp
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    • Abstract:
      All of Broadway mourned when Tony-winning actor Gavin Creel died. His many co-stars, including Bette Midler and New Jersey's Laura Benanti, shared remembrances on social media. But one of them, actor Zachary Levi, used the loss of the actor to advance a bogus claim. Levi implied that a COVID-19 vaccine caused Creel's death. Creel, 48, died in September after being diagnosed in July with cancer - metastatic melanotic peripheral nerve sheath sarcoma. "I know that this is going to offend some people and make some people mad, and I wish it didn't," Levi said in an October Instagram Live video,...