{"id":378,"date":"2026-07-21T20:19:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T20:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dmnewfeed.store\/?p=378"},"modified":"2026-07-21T20:19:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T20:19:09","slug":"godzilla-vs-kong-actor-kaylee-hottle-dies-aged-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dmnewfeed.store\/?p=378","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Godzilla vs. Kong&#8217; actor Kaylee Hottle dies aged 18"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A young deaf actress, best known for her starring roles in two&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/find\/?q=Godzilla%20movies&amp;ref_=nm_nv_srb_sm\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Godzilla movies<\/a>, has died after being involved in a serious car accident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.vt.co\/dltj72yijj96u.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/GettyImages-2113750841.jpg_g20VMS?tr=cr-0.0.683.1024,f-webp,q-70,w-1024\" alt=\"Hottle has died after being involved in a serious accident. Credit: Amy Sussman\/FilmMagic\/Getty\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hottle has died after being involved in a serious accident. Credit: Amy Sussman\/FilmMagic\/Getty<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kaylee Hottle, who played Jia in the blockbuster movies, was just 19 years old when she died.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Her father, Joshua Hottle, announced the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/vt.co\/news\/us\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">tragic news<\/a>today in a 23-minute-long live stream on social media, captioned: &#8220;I am taking a flight that I never would like to take.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He told TMZ that he learned Kaylee was involved in a serious car accident, and he was called shortly after to be told that her heart stopped on the way to the hospitalThe young actress comes from a multi-generational deaf family and began her career in a commercial for the live\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.glide.me\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">video messaging app Glide<\/a>, <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"819\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/dmnewfeed.store\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-36-819x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-379\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dmnewfeed.store\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-36-819x1024.png 819w, https:\/\/dmnewfeed.store\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-36-240x300.png 240w, https:\/\/dmnewfeed.store\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-36-768x960.png 768w, https:\/\/dmnewfeed.store\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-36.png 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 819px) 100vw, 819px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">which is used by many members of the deaf and hard-of-hearing community, when was just nine years old.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A young deaf actress, best known for her starring roles in two&nbsp;Godzilla movies, has died after being involved in a serious car accident. Hottle has died after being involved in a serious accident. Credit: Amy Sussman\/FilmMagic\/Getty Kaylee Hottle, who played Jia in the blockbuster movies, was just 19 years old when she died. Her father, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmnewfeed.store\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmnewfeed.store\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmnewfeed.store\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmnewfeed.store\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmnewfeed.store\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=378"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dmnewfeed.store\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":380,"href":"https:\/\/dmnewfeed.store\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378\/revisions\/380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmnewfeed.store\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmnewfeed.store\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmnewfeed.store\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}