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Celebrities React to the Passing of Robin Thicke's Dad, Alan Thicke

The Growing Pains star died yesterday at 69.

We lost another icon in 2016. Television actor Alan Thicke, father of Real Husbands of Hollywood star and chart-topping singer Robin Thicke, passed away suddenly yesterday, after suffering a heart attack during a hockey game with his youngest son.
Many of us grew up with Thicke, who starred on Growing Pains, as a surrogate TV dad, making his death feel like a loss of a piece of our childhoods. Tons of celebrities feel the same way, and took to social media after news of his death broke to share their condolences and memories. See what they had to say, below:

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