Taco Bell Chihuahua Has Passed On

Her name was Gidget, and she starred in the popular series of Taco Bell commercials that featured her uttering the words “Yo quiero Taco Bell!” From the L.A. Unleashed blog of the LA Times:

Gidget died of a stroke Tuesday at the ripe old age of 15, People Pets reports. She’d lived in comfortable semiretirement since the heyday of the Taco Bell advertising campaign, occasionally making cameo appearances (hawking insurance alongside the GEICO gecko in a 2002 commercial and playing the mother of Reese Witherspoon’s Chihuahua, Bruiser, in the sequel to “Legally Blonde”).

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