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Carnie Wilson Shares Heartbreaking Tribute To Dad Brian Wilson After His Death At 82
On Thursday, Carnie Wilson posted a photo of herself, her sister Wendy, and their father Brian with a tribute to her dad.
She wrote:
"I have no words to express the sadness I feel right now. My Father [Brian Wilson] was every fiber of my body."
"He will be remembered by millions and millions until the world ends. I am lucky to have been his daughter and had a soul connection with him that will live on always.
"I've never felt this kind of pain before, but I know he's resting up there in heaven ... or maybe playing the piano for Grandma Audree his Mom. I will post something else soon but this is all my hands will let me type."
"I love you Daddy....I miss you so much already."
Chynna Phillips responded:
"He was one of the greats to millions, but to you he was dad. I love you Carnie."
Chynna's husband of 30 years, actor Billy Baldwin, also shared a message of support.
As did many other famous friends and fans, like Heart co-founder and guitarist Nancy Wilson (no relation).
Carnie later added a second post, a poem shared by the Instagram account @allontheboard, captioned:
"This is so beautiful. I've been seeing and reading all your posts about my Father. Today it really sank in. My Daddy is not on this earth anymore and it rips through my soul."
"I've always known how spiritual he was—he's always talked about divinity. I feel as though he was put on this earth to show us love. To show us that we are all one and can live in harmony. His pureness, honesty, humor, talent, curious nature made him that special person."
"If there is a music God—he had a big strong line to that force. I just cannot believe the outpouring of love from around the world. My family is totally blown away ( another expression he loved) and I know I just know he's sees it. If anyone would be able to look down and see all this happening for him—it's my Daddy."
"I'm praying he visits me in my dreams so I can feel his presence close to me. In the meantime... keep it all coming because it's helping me heal."
Singer Lola Bonfiglio—Carnie Wilson's eldest daughter with her husband of over 25 years, musician and producer Rob Bonfiglio—posted her own heartfelt tribute to her grandfather. It included a photo of her with Brian Wilson at the piano when she was an infant.
She wrote:
"i love you grandpa. your music has changed the world. you have left an invaluable mark on me and so many others and i am blessed to have had you in my life. i will forever do music in your honor. rest in music paradise"
Brian Wilson was a musician, songwriter, singer, and record producer in addition to cofounding the Beach Boys in 1961 when he was only 19.
The band's original lineup included his brothers, guitarist Carl who was 17 and drummer Dennis who was 14, their 20-year-old cousin Mike Love who was the lead singer, and 19-year-old friend, guitarist Al Jardine. Brian Wilson played keyboard and bass guitar.
The band was credited with popularizing the California Sound that focused on cars, girls, and surfing.
Brian Wilson was preceded in death by his younger brothers.
Dennis Wilson drowned in 1983. After his death, actor, singer, and musician John Stamos frequently appeared in concerts with the Beach Boys as their drummer.
Carl Wilson died of cancer in 1998.
Our thoughts are with the entire Wilson family at this time.
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Nancy Mace's Claim That No One Would Know Simone Biles' Name If Men Competed Against Her Gets Epically Fact-Checked
By comparison, the second most decorated gymnast in history, combining Olympic and World Championship medals, is Russian gymnast Larisa Latynina, who has a total of 32 Olympic and World Championship medals from 1954-1964. The third is Russian gymnast Nikolai Andrianov who won 27 medals from 1972-1980.
Despite Biles absolute dominance in the sport, Mace told her on X:
"Honey, if biological men competed in women’s gymnastics, odds are no one would know your name."
Asked to weigh in by HuffPost, two-time All-American NCAA men's gymnast Samuel Phillips stated:
"[People like Mace] clearly don’t watch or know about the sport of gymnastics."
He added:
"What makes gymnastics unique is that men’s and women’s gymnastics are realistically two different sports. It’s not like track and field or swimming where you have men and women perform the same distance races within the same length pool or track."
"These are two different sports with completely different events and skills. The only shared events are floor and vault, while the men have the pommel horse, rings, parallel bars and high bar and the women have uneven bars and beam."
Phillips then cited four-time NCAA champion Ian Gunther who had weighed in as well.
Gunther went further, making the point that while men can't compete with Simone Biles in her gymnastics events of beam and parallel bars, Biles could give men a run for their money on the floor exercise and vault.
Gunther had created a number of videos of male gymnasts trying to complete women's gymnastics core skills almost three years before Mace's latest nonsense.
A simple Google search would have shown Mace how wrong her attack on Biles was.
Gunther even has a video of Biles going head to head with himself and other male gymnasts.
If Mace missed Gunther's videos, she could have referred to UK Olympic medalist Nile Wilson's series exploring the same topic.
Wilson—again, an Olympic medalist—also has a series of videos on Facebook where he tries to complete Biles' skills or routines.
While others don't have the credentials of Phillips, Gunther, or Wilson, plenty of people weighed in on Mace's latest attention grab.
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Mace has been getting a lot of pushback lately over the sincerity of her transphobic campaign.
In May, Mace's staff members revealed the South Carolina MAGA ran a bot army and forced staffers to run fake social media accounts to praise her online and interact with her posts to boost her profile.
Given her claims of supporting the LGBTQ+ community as recently as 2021, critical thinkers speculate Mace will say or do anything just to garner attention.
There's a phrase for that...
