Woman turns all the stars we’ve tragically lost this year into ANGELS on her Christmas tree
A WOMAN distraught by the number of celebrity deaths in 2016 has turned the late stars into angels on her Christmas tree.
Twitter user @L3GSV, who goes by the name of Legs, posted an image of her stunning creation to Twitter, where it's already clocked up more than 1,000 likes and 631 retweets.
The tree pays tributes to the likes of Terry Wogan, David Bowie, Prince and Caroline Aherne, who all passed away this year.
At the top of the tree is a 'Toblerone angel' - a tongue-in-cheek tribute to the scandalous downsizing of the triangular-shaped chocolate bar.
The 36-year-old business owner from York, who wished to remain anonymous, said she was delighted by the reaction to her decorative tribute.
She told The Sun: "It looked so pretty when I put it up yesterday afternoon and I couldn’t resist taking a picture. I just thought, ‘My friends will enjoy this’, but I did not expect it to be so popular.
"I woke up this morning and I was in Twitter moments, I couldn’t believe it!";
'Legs' explained how the idea was inspired by a similar tribute tree her sister had created in the late 90s after the death of Princess Diana.
She said: "You know there was this big outpouring of grief and she that year did a Princess Diana tree as a little tribute.
"This year she said, ‘You should do a celebrity angel tree, it’s been so miserable’, and I thought, that’s a great idea.
"So she drew me the wings – she’s an illustrator - and I printed them off and made them and put them up yesterday.
"It took me probably all of Sunday, and Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday evenings to put all the angels together because I had to cut out all the wings and make the little bodies and halos and print all the faces and stuff.
"It took me back to my childhood with all that cutting out!"
She admitted not every famous person who died this year is on there, as there simply wasn’t room on the tree.
“If you Google celebrity deaths of 2016 there are I think probably thousands,” she explained.
“My sister had given me a number of wings that I’d be able to use, so I kind of based it on that.
“I had to be quite selective, so I suppose I’ve chosen the people who really chimed with my youth, childhood and adult years and made the biggest difference in my life.
“But I haven’t been able to choose them all as we’ve just lost too many this year!”
Following the tragic news which broke last night that Fawlty Towers actor Andrew Sachs had passed away, Legs exclaimed: "I’ve got to make him an angel now! I’m going to use glitter for our December angels, let’s hope there aren’t too many."