{"id":286076,"date":"2020-01-07T18:50:27","date_gmt":"2020-01-08T01:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1109361"},"modified":"2020-01-07T18:50:27","modified_gmt":"2020-01-08T01:50:27","slug":"america-ferrera-mourns-devastating-death-of-ugly-betty-creator-after-reported-suicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/america-ferrera-mourns-devastating-death-of-ugly-betty-creator-after-reported-suicide\/","title":{"rendered":"America Ferrera Mourns ”Devastating” Death of Ugly Betty Creator After Reported Suicide"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Silvio Horta<\/strong>, the creator of ABC’s Ugly Betty<\/em>, was found dead in a Miami motel room on Tuesday, Jan. 7 in an apparent suicide, Variety<\/em> reports<\/a>. <\/p>\n

According to the publication, the 45-year-old died of a “self-inflicted gunshot wound.” While his death was confirmed by a representative for the late screenwriter and producer, they declined to comment on the nature of his death. <\/p>\n

America Ferrera<\/a><\/strong>, who starred in the show as Betty Suarez, took to Instagram to mourn Horta’s death<\/a>. <\/p>\n

“I’m stunned and heartbroken to hear the devastating news of Ugly Better creator, Silvio Horta’s death. His talent and creativity brought m and so many others such joy & light,” she wrote, alongside a picture of herself, Horta and Salma Hayek<\/a><\/strong>at the 2007 Golden Globe Awards. <\/p>\n

The actress added: “I’m thinking of his family and loved ones who must be in so much pain right now\u2014and of the whole Ugly Betty family who feel this loss so deeply.” <\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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Ugly Betty<\/em> ran for four seasons on ABC and was adapted from a Colombian telenovela of the same name, Yo soy Betty, la fea<\/em>. <\/p>\n

The series followed Suarez, portrayed by Ferrera, and her life as a young Latinx woman from Queens, New York who lands a job at a fashion magazine in Manhattan but doesn’t quite fit in. <\/p>\n

Horta’s Ugly Betty<\/em> success ushered in two Golden Globe wins, one for Musical or Comedy TV Series in 2007 and another for the 35-year-old Superstore<\/em> actor for Actress in a Musical or Comedy TV Series that same year. <\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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Vanessa Williams<\/a><\/strong>, who portrayed the infamous Wilhelmina Slater in the show, also took to social media<\/a> to share her condolences over the death of Horta. <\/p>\n

 “Still in shock after hearing the tragic news of our #uglybetty creator #silviohorta [broken heart]. His creativity and passion will be missed by so many of us that worked with him,” Williams wrote on Instagram, alongside a selfie of the two. “May he Rest in Peace.” <\/p>\n

Michael Urie<\/strong>, who portrayed Marc St. James in the show, wrote on Twitter<\/a> that he “will be forever indebted to this sweet, brilliant man.” <\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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Craig Sjodin\/Walt Disney Television via Getty Images Silvio Horta, the creator of ABC’s Ugly Betty, was found dead in a Miami motel room on Tuesday, Jan. 7 in an apparent suicide, Variety reports.  According to the publication, the 45-year-old died of a “self-inflicted gunshot wound.” While his death was confirmed by a representative for the late screenwriter […]<\/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":["post-286076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-06 20:28:49","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\/286076","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=286076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286076\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}