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Soap Vet Gilles Marini Loses Family Member To COVID-19

By Michael Maloney
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Days of our Lives and The Bold and the Beautiful alum, Gilles Marini, is reporting that the deadly coronavirus has claimed the life of a beloved family member.

Gilles Marini Reveals Personal Connection To Pandemic

According to the actor’s Twitter account, his beloved aunt, died today. “My aunt passed away this morning of the corona virus,” Marini posted. “RIP tata 💔 Stay safe my friends. This is hard for everyone.”

Earlier this week, Marini posted a reflective post on Instagram, theorizing on what we can all learn for this time in history in which there is so much uncertainty.

“As the world stopped fragilely spinning in our terms, everyone is realizing,” Marini posted. “Society created since the 50’s this false sense of happiness for profite. Owning things, bigger is better, from, look at my cars, my big houses, my possessions and on and on. Our existence on this planet is a lie. Smoke and mirrors. With flashy colors, that only exposed to the sun (reality), will fade away. We are attached, to desire the useless. The abondance of nothingness.

“When is the last time that you sat down and contemplated true happiness? What is happiness in your eyes? What is Black or white or good or bad? Is in these dire times that we truly can comprehend what is IMPORTANT. Health, Love, Contentment. Those are crucial. We are all poor and we are all rich. We are all human. I’m sadden by the evolution of our species. Mother Earth is actually kicking our ass and it’s telling us to stop. Stop our ways of excess and destructions.

“Covid 19 is here to remind us that we are nothing, fragile and full of ourselves,” he continues. “How about a new world, a new guideline. A new way of doing things. Accepting others like we were accepted at one point in our life…Be essential, learn to love and appreciate again from a new perspective… I love you all ❤️

Soap Hub sends sincere condolences to Marini and his family at this difficult time. You can check out his full posts below.


 

 

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As I’m reflecting… As the world stopped fragilely spinning in our terms, everyone is realizing. Society created since the 50’s this false sense of happiness for profite. Owning things, bigger is better, from, look at my cars, my big houses, my possessions and on and on. Our existence on this planet is a lie. Smoke and mirrors. With flashy colors, that only exposed to the sun (reality), will fade away. We are attached, to desire the useless. The abondance of nothingness. When is the last time that you sat down and contemplated true happiness? What is happiness in your eyes? What is Black or white or good or bad? Is in these dire times that we truly can comprehend what is IMPORTANT. Health, Love, Contentment. Those are crucial. We are all poor and we are all rich. We are all human. I’m sadden by the evolution of our species. Mother Earth is actually kicking our ass and it’s telling us to stop. Stop our ways of excess and destructions. When is the last time you had made a hole and planted a seed? When is the last time you actually made something for someone else and without money, but just a profound desire to be at service to someone else in need? I’m lost as much as a lot of us. But today. Is the first day of my new life. A life without pressure, without anger. Without jealousy. A life worth living to it’s fullest by minimizing the foot print we have been forced to create by enormous but very profitable companies. It’s not always the one who puts you down that are the one who truly wants you bad. Let me be clear. Covid 19 is here to remind us that we are nothing, fragile and full of ourselves. How about a new world, a new guideline. A new way of doing things. Accepting others like we were accepted at one point in our life. Please, it’s time to downgrade all we thought was good for us and contemplate what is absolute for our kind to thrived and not regorged all this emptiness. Be essential, learn to love and appreciate again from a new perspective. We are all gonna die one way or the other. So, it’s how you will wanna be remembered, that will matter through ages and for our planet. Be good, be human. We are all miracles, so be one. I love you all ❤️

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Michael Maloney
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Michael Maloney is the Sr. West Coast Editor of Soap Hub. He has been writing about soap operas for both consumer and trade publications for 30 years.

Prior to joining Soap Hub, Michael had been on staff at Soap Opera Digest, Soap Opera Magazine, Soap Opera Update, Soaps In Depth, In Touch, and Inside TV. He has written for Variety, TV Guide, TV Insider, AOL TV, and TODAY.

Based in Los Angeles, Michael authored the book “The Young and Restless Life of William J. Bell” with Lee Phillip Bell (Sourcebooks, 2012).

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