{"id":133319,"date":"2017-11-20T14:45:13","date_gmt":"2017-11-20T20:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=133319"},"modified":"2017-11-20T14:45:13","modified_gmt":"2017-11-20T20:45:13","slug":"actress-singer-della-reese-passes-86","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=133319","title":{"rendered":"Actress, singer, Della Reese passes, 86"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-133320\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/ReeseDella-300x126.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"126\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/ReeseDella-300x126.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/ReeseDella-768x321.jpg 768w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/ReeseDella-418x175.jpg 418w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/ReeseDella.jpg 992w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 Della Reese, the actress and gospel-influenced singer who in middle age found her greatest fame as Tess, the wise angel in the long-running television drama &#8220;Touched by an Angel,&#8221; has died at age 86.<\/p>\n<p>A family representative released a statement Monday that Reese died peacefully Sunday evening in California. No cause of death or additional details were provided.<\/p>\n<p>Before &#8220;Touched by an Angel&#8221; debuted in 1994, Reese was mainly known as a singer, although she had costarred on &#8220;Chico and the Man,&#8221; &#8221;Charlie and Company&#8221; and &#8220;The Royal Family&#8221; and hosted her own talk show, &#8220;Della.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She appeared on numerous shows such as &#8220;Night Court,&#8221; &#8221;L.A. Law,&#8221; and &#8220;Designing Women,&#8221; but wrote in her 1997 autobiography that she had difficulty being typecast until she landed her &#8220;Touched by an Angel&#8221; role.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 Della Reese, the actress and gospel-influenced singer who in middle age found her greatest fame as Tess, the wise angel in the long-running television drama &#8220;Touched by an Angel,&#8221; has died at age 86. A family representative released a statement Monday that Reese died peacefully Sunday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":133320,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=133319"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133321,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133319\/revisions\/133321"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/133320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=133319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=133319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=133319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}