Gidget The Taco Bell Dog Dies At Age 15 (Video/Photos)

Posted on July 22, 2009

Gidget, the Chihuahua who became known as the Taco Bell dog has died at the age of 15. The Taco Bell Dog made the phrase “¡Yo quiero Taco Bell!” famous. Read more on Gidget below.

Gidget reportedly died of a stroke Tuesday at the age of 15. Gidget had lived a comfortable life after she retired from her heyday of being the Taco Bell Dog.

She made occasional appearances for the GEICO gecko in a 2002 commercial and also was the mother of Reese Witherspoon’s Chihuahua, Bruiser, in the sequel to “Legally Blonde”.

“She made so many people happy,” says Gidget’s trainer, Sue Chipperton.

“When she’s on a set, she comes alive,” Chipperton said at the time. But when the mostly retired canine actor wasn’t joining her trainer on shoots, the 15-year-old was happy to just kick back. “She goes on hikes with me and she loves the sun,” said Chipperton, who added that Gidget was happy to sleep “for 23 hours and 45 minutes a day. She’ll lay outside when it’s 105 degrees! I like to joke that it’s like looking after a plant.”

Her trainer said she adored the limelight and said, “One time, I kid you not, she actually pushed her stand-in out of the way because he was still there when she arrived on set,” Chipperton recalled with a laugh. “Gidget always knew where the camera was.”

Here’s Gidget, the Taco Bell Dog in this video below:

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