It bowled over millions of viewers, ignited a Facebook-based campaign to get White to host 'Saturday Night Live' – which she did months later, becoming its oldest host at 88 – and introduced her to an entirely new generation of fans. 'Mike, you're playing like Betty White out there!' a teammate screams in her face a millisecond before she shoots back with, 'That's not what your girlfriend says!'

The near-universally beloved entertainment icon best known for her starring roles on 'The Golden Girls' and 'The Mary Tyler Moore Show,' is remembered for being game for almost anything.Īmerica got a reminder of that back in 2010 when White appeared in a Super Bowl commercial for Snickers, where she appeared to be knocked into a mud puddle during a football game with much younger men. She believed she would be with him again.'

I don't think Betty ever feared passing because she always wanted to be with her most beloved husband Allen Ludden. 'I will miss her terribly and so will the animal world that she loved so much. 'Even though Betty was about to be 100, I thought she would live forever,' her agent and close friend Jeff Witjas told PEOPLE. TMZ first reported the news of White's death, citing police sources who confirmed that she passed away at home just weeks before her 100th birthday. Betty White, the five-time Emmy Award winner died Friday morning, reports said, leaving behind legions of fans who came to love her over the course of a storied career spanning more than 81 years.

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