00:00I think with our kids as well, they don't want anything, do they?
00:02Well, they don't need anything.
00:03They don't, yeah.
00:04And they, actually, Bo hasn't asked for anything.
00:06Because she mentioned that it might be quite nice to have somewhere to sit and do her air and stuff.
00:10Like, because she's got no furniture in her room.
00:12Another house?
00:13No, not another.
00:15That was Lisa Maxwell 10 years ago as a panelist on ITV's Loose Women,
00:20talking about her daughter's Christmas list.
00:22Tragically, that same young woman, her daughter Bo Jessup,
00:25has passed away unexpectedly at the age of 27.
00:28No cause of death was given.
00:30Bo was attending Columbia University's famed journalism school
00:33and was just six months from getting her master's degree in May 2027.
00:38Upon her death with permission from the family,
00:40the Ivy League school released an unpublished interview from last month
00:44in which Bo reflected on growing up in a famous household.
00:47As the daughter of a television actress, I grew up with an unusual awareness
00:51of the distance between people's lives and the stories told about them.
00:54I saw how journalism could illuminate someone's experiences,
00:57but also how those experiences could be distorted, simplified,
01:01or transformed into a public narrative over which the subject had very little control.
01:06I was curious from quite a young age about who gets to tell people's stories
01:09and what happens when those stories enter the public domain.
01:12Her mother, Lisa Maxwell, famously starred in the long-running UK police show,
01:17The Bill, from 2002 to 2009.
01:19She welcomed her daughter with Paul Jessup in October 1999.
01:24The couple who tied the knot in July 2014 have yet to speak out on the tragedy.
01:29Bo, her only child, also had a passion for theater
01:31and wrote her first play, The Sandbag, while studying at Cambridge.
01:36She made headlines in 2016 when she kick-started the website Special Name,
01:40a site that helps Chinese parents pick English names for their kids.
01:44The project earned her more than $60,000.
01:47In a public statement, Columbia wrote,
01:49We extend our deepest condolences to her family, friends, classmates,
01:53and all who knew and loved her.
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