‘We all love Leslie’
North Texans share memories of Leslie Jordan, the TV, movie and social media star who brightened our world with his humor and a life loved authentically BY THE DALLAS VOICE STAFF “We all love Leslie.” It was one comment from one person on one social media post following the death Monday, Oct.
24, of actor and comedian Leslie Allen Jordan. But it summed up most succinctly the country’s response to the loss of a national treasure: Everyone loved Leslie Jordan.
Todd Camp got to know Leslie Jordan through the actor’s many appearances in Fort Worth Jordan, 67, died Monday after crashing his BMW into a building, most likely as a result of a sudden medical emergency, according to multiple sources.
The outpouring of grief was immediate and massive. The actors and singers and other celebrities he had worked with through the years — starting in 1989 when he got his first big break on Murphy Brown, through his days as Beverly Leslie on Will & Grace (for which he won an Emmy) and his sudden social media super stardom on Instagram, right up through his current recurring role on Call Me Kat with Mayim Bialik and Cheyenne Jackson — took to social media to honor him and to mourn his death.
