Fri. Oct 9th, 2026
French sex symbol Brigitte Bardot died in December at the age of 91.

Publicity photo of Brigitte Bardot in A Very Private Affair. By MGM - ebay, Public Domain, Link

S32E4: Brigitte Bardot

In the final days of the no-good, very-bad year of 2025, the world learned that the iconic French actress Brigitte Bardot had died at the age of 91. Having achieved international stardom back in 1957 in the film And God Created Woman – a collab with her first husband, director Roger Vadim – she became a significant cultural export from France in an era where the rules that seemed to govern the conduct of ordinary people were increasingly being questioned and cast aside.

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