Mourners lined the cobbled streets of Edinburgh‘s Royal Mile today to bid farewell to Janey Godley after her death aged 63.
The Scottish comedian passed away on November 2 ‘surrounded by her loved ones’, her management company confirmed earlier this month.
Godley found viral fame with her dubbed pastiches of Nicola Sturgeon‘s coronavirus news briefings as well as other comic voiceovers during the pandemic.
She was treated in hospital for sepsis earlier this year before learning her ovarian cancer had returned, having first been diagnosed in 2021.
Today grieving fans packed out the Royal Mile as the star’s hearse travelled through Edinburgh on its way to her funeral service, which will be held at St Mary’s Cathedral in Glasgow tomorrow.
In a post on social media, Godley’s daughter Ashley Storrie explained her mother’s hearse would pass through Edinburgh – her ‘beloved Festival home’ – today before travelling ‘home to Glasgow’.
In a statement following her passing, Chris…
