AAP have released some Australian "entertainment industry" reactions to Heath Ledger's passing, which range from the dutiful to the political to the touchingly heartfelt.

We'll stop short of providing all of the soundbites but we think Margaret Pomeranz (from At The Movies and the real OG version of The Movie Show, if you've been living under a rock) and Mel Gibson said it best:

"I am so upset, I just can't tell you," Pomeranz told ABC radio.

"I mean he is such a talented boy and really, I think a beautiful soul.

"And I think to choose the roles he chose shows such intelligence."

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''I had such great hope for him,'' Gibson told the Entertainment Tonight website.

''He was just taking off and to lose his life at such a young age is a tragic loss. My thoughts and prayers are with him and his family.''

Ledger's "devastated" ex-fiancee, Michelle Williams, is said to be flying to New York presently.

 

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