{"id":270681,"date":"2019-04-04T14:55:17","date_gmt":"2019-04-04T20:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1029797"},"modified":"2019-04-04T14:55:17","modified_gmt":"2019-04-04T20:55:17","slug":"kate-bosworth-honors-heath-ledger-on-late-actors-40th-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/kate-bosworth-honors-heath-ledger-on-late-actors-40th-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"Kate Bosworth Honors Heath Ledger on Late Actor&#8217;s 40th Birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"photo-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"38.097345132743\">\n<div class=\"column post-content__image--left post-content__image\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"32\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/201934\/rs_634x1024-190404132229-634-heath-ledger-kate-bosworth-40.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" title=\"Heath Ledger, Kate Bosworth\" alt=\"Heath Ledger, Kate Bosworth\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">BILLY FARRELL\/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"18.492597577389\">\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/kate_bosworth\">Kate Bosworth<\/a><\/strong> is paying tribute to <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/heath_ledger\">Heath Ledger<\/a><\/strong> on what would&#8217;ve been his 40th birthday.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been just over 11 years since Ledger&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/57274\/heath-ledger-found-dead\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tragically passed away<\/a>&nbsp;on Jan. 22, 2008 at the age of 28. On Thursday, many fans and friends took to social media to honor the late actor on his birthday.<\/p>\n<p>Bosworth, who rose to fame around the same time as Ledger,&nbsp;remembered&nbsp;him in a moving message.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Doesn&#8217;t seem so long ago we were all running around LA, shotgunned into Hollywood + popping off the new millennium&#8217;s cork, having a laugh. It was a crazy time,&#8221;&nbsp;the <em>Blue Crush<\/em> actress wrote on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/Bv1tZd5HgrR\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Instagram<\/a> alongside a photo of Ledger.&nbsp;&#8220;I was literally straight out of high school, feeling young &amp; super shy and he was always so sweet within a surreal scene.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"64\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"18\">\n<p>&#8220;I really, really would have loved to have known Heath today, at 40. No limits on what he would have accomplished,&#8221;&nbsp;Bosworth continued. &#8220;Here is what I remember: he was sensitive, gentle, kind, wickedly funny. Extraordinarily special.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Time goes by, his image still a teenage heartthrob. And his work. So brilliant + honest &amp; he was just getting started,&#8221; she concluded her post.&nbsp;&#8220;But to remember the Human. I was on the outer orbit. Imagine those close to the sun. Thinking of all the people who knew and loved him on this day. Man, you made one hell of a mark. xo.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"video-int-txt-3\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"34.72\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-video-text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"14.618947368421\">\n<p>Ledger is survived by his daughter,&nbsp;<strong>Matilda<\/strong>, 13, from his relationship with actress <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/michelle_williams\">Michelle Williams<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday morning, Williams opened up about&nbsp;having a teenager in the house&nbsp;while appearing on <em>Live With Kelly and Ryan<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s so far so good,&#8221; she told <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/kelly_ripa\">Kelly Ripa<\/a><\/strong> and guest co-host <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/mark_consuelos\">Mark Consuelos<\/a><\/strong>. &#8220;Every morning we wake up and I look to see if the transformation has happened and if it&#8217;s turned into the next level that I keep hearing about, but we&#8217;re not there yet.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1029797\/kate-bosworth-honors-heath-ledger-on-late-actor-s-40th-birthday?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BILLY FARRELL\/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images Kate Bosworth is paying tribute to Heath Ledger on what would&#8217;ve been his 40th birthday. It&#8217;s been just over 11 years since Ledger&nbsp;tragically passed away&nbsp;on Jan. 22, 2008 at the age of 28. On Thursday, many fans and friends took to social media to honor the late actor on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-270681","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-25 23:09:06","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}