{"id":1958812,"date":"2025-08-13T22:03:29","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T22:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1958812"},"modified":"2025-08-13T22:03:29","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T22:03:29","slug":"malcolm-jamal-warners-death-stars-pay-tribute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/malcolm-jamal-warners-death-stars-pay-tribute\/","title":{"rendered":"Malcolm-Jamal Warner&#8217;s Death: Stars Pay Tribute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"segment-text-only\">\n<p>The world is mourning the loss of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1420154\/malcolm-jamal-warner-on-legacy-in-final-interview-before-death\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Malcolm-Jamal Warner<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Following the Cosby Show alum\u2019s <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1420134\/malcolm-jamal-warners-cause-of-death-revealed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer\">tragic passing at the age of 54<\/a> in an accidental drowning, Warner\u2019s former colleagues and cast mates from his decades on TV expressed their grief over the news.<\/p>\n<p>Among them was Warner\u2019s onscreen dad <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/bill_cosby\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Bill Cosby<\/strong><\/a>, whose rep <strong>Andrew Wyatt <\/strong><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1420153\/bill-cosby-on-malcolm-jamal-warners-death\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer\">confirmed to E! News<\/a> that the 88-year-old was just as devastated to learn of Warner\u2019s passing as he was when he learned of his own son <strong>Ennis Cosby<\/strong>\u2019s murder in 1997.<\/p>\n<p>The 88-year-old\u2019s rep added that Cosby recalled Warner, who played Theo Huxtable to his patriarch Cliff, and his son playing together as children, noting they \u201cwere amazing together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another member of Warner\u2019s onscreen family, <strong>Geoffrey Owens<\/strong>, shared the accident has nearly rendered him \u201cspeechless.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMalcolm was a lovely man; a sweet and sensitive soul,\u201d Owens, who played Theo\u2019s brother-in-law Elvin Tibideaux, added in his statement shared with NBC News. \u201cI respected him for many reasons, including the fact that he genuinely loved the act of creation.\u00a0 He had the mind of an actor and the heart of a musician.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.eonline.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world is mourning the loss of Malcolm-Jamal Warner. Following the Cosby Show alum\u2019s tragic passing at the age of 54 in an accidental drowning, Warner\u2019s former colleagues and cast mates from his decades on TV expressed their grief over the news. Among them was Warner\u2019s onscreen dad Bill Cosby, whose rep Andrew Wyatt confirmed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1958813,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1958812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Malcolm-Jamal-Warners-Death-Stars-Pay-Tribute.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1958812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1958812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1958812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1958813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1958812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1958812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1958812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}