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Bling Empire's Anna Shay Dead astatine 62
The Bling Empire household is mourning 1 of their own.
Kim Lee, Kelly Mi Li and Kevin Kreider were among those paying tribute to their co-star Anna Shay, whose household confirmed June 5 that she died pursuing a stroke. She was 62.
"It saddens our hearts to denote that Anna Shay, a loving mother, grandmother, charismatic star, and our brightest ray of sunshine, has passed away," Anna's family said successful a connection obtained by E! News June 5. "Anna taught america galore beingness lessons connected however not to instrumentality beingness excessively earnestly and to bask the finer things. Her interaction connected our lives volition beryllium everlastingly missed but ne'er forgotten."
Calling the tragic quality a "huge shock," Kim said successful a connection to E! News she had "so overmuch emotion for Anna."
"I cognize that we had issues connected the amusement but successful existent life, I had specified a large transportation with her extracurricular of the show," Kim's connection continued. "We saw oculus to eye, and she gave maine truthful galore words of contented I volition ne'er forget. There's nary 1 similar Anna Shay; she's an unthinkable and unsocial idiosyncratic who was beloved by truthful galore people. My thoughts are with her household astatine this hard time."
Kelly shared throwback photos of her and Anna connected Instagram, including pics of them astatine the formation and snapshots of the Bling Empire formed competing connected Celebrity Family Feud successful 2022.
"You were genuinely 1 of a kind," Kelly captioned her slideshow, "and we volition miss you forever."
Kevin recalled his past moments with Anna, noting, "You ne'er cognize erstwhile your past goodbye volition be."
He continued, "So unexpected and wished erstwhile I saw you past for luncheon I would person taken a infinitesimal to odor the roses and had 1 past escapade with you."
In the comments section, Kevin's girlfriend and co-star Devon Diep wrote, "We emotion you Anna. Thank you for your benignant bosom and delicious dim sum erstwhile we hung retired last. We volition miss you dearly."
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Anna—the girl of Edward Shay, who founded Pacific Architects and Engineers, according to NBC News—joined Bling Empire for its archetypal play successful 2021. And while Bling Empire, often described as the real-life Crazy Rich Asians, followed the lives of affluent Asian and Asian Americans, Anna ne'er changed who she was for the cameras.
"I'm precise blessed for everybody," she told People successful 2021. "Did I expect the amusement to beryllium successful? No. I wasn't adjacent expecting to beryllium successful beforehand of the camera. I'm precise shy and I went on with immoderate concern was happening. I was conscionable being me."
Keep scrolling for much tributes from the Bling Empire cast.
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Kane Lim: "You had a nonchalance astir you that was mesmerizing and captivated assemblage astir the world. I was fortunate to get to cognize the existent you and not galore knew astir our relationship disconnected camera. We had a existent relationship and thought the amusement made things oregon adjacent portrayed america a small brainsick astatine times you knew who I truly was arsenic a idiosyncratic and had my backmost successful the end. We spent astir of the pandemic together, slaying it connected Rodeo dr, market shopping, making Japanese plum vino and doing silly things. Thank you for your company. I volition ever retrieve you for your tenacity for beingness and resilience and whether the camera is connected oregon disconnected you, you slayyyy. Continue to slay successful the heavens."
Cherie Chan: "@annashay93 my full heart. I'm mislaid for words. If lone the satellite knew however beauteous you are. 'Why does deity instrumentality the champion radical from us?'"
Guy Tang: "Gone excessively soon. You'll beryllium genuinely missed, @annashay93. The champion memories were each down the scenes of #BlingEmpire erstwhile the cameras were off. We had the champion times together."
Mimi Morris: "Our hearts inactive ache successful sadness. Bling Empire household mislaid specified an astonishing friend. Anna you volition missed dearly, whitethorn you remainder successful heaven."
Jaime Xie: "You volition beryllium truthful dearly missed. Rest successful peace, Anna. Our galore memories unneurotic volition enactment everlastingly successful my heart."
Dorothy Wang: "Rest successful Peace, Anna. Your generosity, boldness and fervor for beingness volition everlastingly beryllium celebrated."
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