‘Jeopardy!’ Host Mayim Bialik reveals the heartbreaking way she learned of co-star Leslie Jordan’s death.

Mayim Bialik is revealing the tragic way she learned from her “Call Me Kat” co-star. Leslie Jordan He passed away suddenly in October.

“It was a sudden thing. We were all at work and we were waiting for him to show up at work, so it was very, very complicated, you know all the crew and all the actors.” “Jeopardy!” Host He spoke about the situation.

On The Jennifer Hudson Show, Bialik explained, “We were a family, and we were one of the first shows after it closed, so we were all in our house, and then the people we spent the most time with were each other.” So we became this little part of the COVID,” she told attendees of the Fox show.

“Most of the time, we were the only people we met outside of our house. So we were all very close.”

Mayim Bialik revealed that the cast and crew of “Call Me Cat” were waiting to appear on the show when they learned of Leslie Jordan’s accident. (Fox)

Leslie Jordan, ‘Will & Grace’ actress, dies at 67

Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner Public Information Officer Sarah Ardalani said Jordan died in a car accident in Los Angeles.

The crash happened around 8:50 p.m. in Hollywood.

On October 24, he was 67 years old The actor died of a “sudden heart attack”.The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner’s Office later confirmed.

Leslie Jordan has died in a car accident in Los Angeles. (Vivien Killilea/Getty Images for GLAAD)

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“People knew Leslie Jordan as Leslie Jordan, not just as the character she played on our show,” Bialik said of Jordan, who has played Phil on “Call Me Kat” since season one.

“You know, he’s been in people’s lives…especially during Covid. In people’s Instagram feeds And… a lot of people really developed a real connection with him, and he loved that. He loved to be approachable, he loved to be loved. And when he passed… we all kind of, you know, it’s very rare to find people who agree on something so quickly, and we all said, like, we want it to last forever. show

“We’ve all felt, it’s a really hard thing to do, there’s no right way to do it. But our showrunners, Jim Patterson and Maria Ferrari, helped us through the process, but deciding how you grieve was very emotional. And when you’re grieving like people.”

Mayim Bialik told the cast and crew it was important to honor Leslie Jordan’s character Phil from “Call Me Cat.” (Fox)

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“Our show uses breaking the fourth wall where our characters know, you know, I’m talking to the camera, and I think that kind of thing helped us have a little bit of grace about it,” Philen said of their farewell. “We knew we could really talk to people and be like, ‘There’s no way we’re going to make this not happen.'” You know, we’ve lost a friend,” she said.

They didn’t kill the character, instead he went to Tahiti for personal and business reasons.

The third season of “Call Me Kat” is now airing. (Fox)

“I think this whole season feels like the season we lost Leslie.”

“It’s been very difficult … and we’re grateful to have had the opportunity to work with him, and to work with him in the way that we did and in his lifetime,” she told Hudson.