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THE heartbreaking past representation of Janey Godley showed her receiving an honorary degree.
The Scots comedian passed distant aged 63 aft a conflict with cancer.
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She revealed successful September she was receiving end-of-life attraction for the disease.
Janey had continued to post updates for fans connected societal media from her hospice bed.
The last images posted connected her X, formerly Twitter, 2 days earlier her death was announced, showed her being awarded an honour by 1 of Scotland's biggest universities.
The Glasgow-born comedian had been awarded an honorary doctorate by Glasgow University.
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Images posted online showed the comedian proudly showing disconnected her caller grade portion undergoing hospice attraction which her family accidental "brought her truthful overmuch joy".
A station connected social media, written by Janey's girl Ashley Storrie, read: Thank you Glasgow Uni for bestowing upon my mum the honorary grade of doc of the University of Glasgow.
"This has brought her truthful overmuch joyousness successful the last beats of her life.
"Janey is truthful honoured, and I americium truthful immensely arrogant of her.
"Congratulations Doctor Godley."
Janey Godley was calved into poorness successful the city successful 1961.
Janey Godley leaves fans successful tears with affectional reunion video arsenic BBC prima receives end-of-life attraction successful hospice
But her hard work and humour saw her go a regular co-presenter connected BBC Radio 4's Loose Ends, arsenic good arsenic fronting BBC Radio 4 bid The C Bomb.
She besides appeared connected Have I Got News For You and River City.
And she had immoderate reasonably high-profile moments successful caller years.
Godley ended up going viral for her infamous "unwelcome" motion for Donald Trump erstwhile helium visited Scotland successful 2016.
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She besides entertained scores of radical successful lockdown with her impressions of erstwhile First Minister Nicola Sturgeon's Covid briefings.
Godley and Sturgeon had a adjacent friendship, with the ex-FM sending her messages of enactment during her wellness fight.
Miss Sturgeon paid tribute to her person aft the tragic quality of her passing, describing her arsenic a "force of nature".
The beingness and vocation of Janey Godley
- 1961 - Born connected January 20 arsenic Janey Currie.
- 1973 - Mum and dada Jim and Annie separate.
- 1980 - Marries Sean Storrie connected September 27.
- 1982 - Mum Annie’s “badly bruised” assemblage recovered from the River Clyde.
- 1986 - Only girl Ashley Storrie is born.
- 1993 - Goes to the constabulary to study historical intersexual abuse.
- 1994 - Wins archetypal stand-up drama contest.
- 1995 - Legally changes surname to Godley.
- 1996 - Uncle David Percy is jailed for 2 years for historical intersexual maltreatment of Janey and her sister.
- 2001 - Becomes full-time comic.
- 2002 - Wins archetypal large drama grant astatine New Zealand International Festival.
- 2016 - Earns planetary attraction erstwhile she greets Donald Trump astatine Turnberry with the motion “Trump is simply a C***”
- 2020 - Goes viral with her hilarious dependable overs of Nicola Sturgeon’s pandemic briefings.
- 2021 - Axed from TV Covid Awareness run for humanities racist tweets. Diagnosed with cancer.
- 2022 - Announces she is cancer-free lone for the illness to instrumentality aboriginal that year.
- 2024 - Tells fans her crab has dispersed and she’s going into a hospice wherever she died this week
In 2023, Godley became the victor of the inaugural Sir Billy Connolly Spirit of Glasgow Award astatine the Glasgow International Comedy Festival.
But successful September she cancelled a planned circuit aft her wellness rapidly deteriorated after a bout of sepsis.
Her cancer had been kept astatine bay through NHS treatment implicit the past fewer years but had returned with a fewer added complications.
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