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I like this.

Not a lot, but I like it.

I spoke to Paul Daniels on the phone once. He was very polite and humble.

I met him a few times, too.

I really hope Russ never texted him.

Hmm?

Wren't you a sex chat bot?

It's been a long time since I saw it but I recall Paul and Debbie coming across very well in the Louis Theroux doc about them.

I remember watching the magic show as a kid and sometimes being scared by the more dangerous tricks.

I was. Is the intimation that Paul Daniels texted a lot of chat lines?

That clip of the cup trick above is just amazing. He was a great showman.

No. It's more a fear.

Edit: never mind. It was an ill constructed attempt at levity in a time of national sadness

From the Guardian obit'.

He met his second wife, Debbie McGee – a former soloist with the Iranian National Ballet – after she took the job of his magician’s assistant in 1979, having escaped Iran after the revolution. They married a decade later.

WTAF?

Cruyff takes a turn for the worse.

Booooooo!

Garry Shandling. The Larry Sanders show was the funniest thing on TV in the 90's. Another great gone

Screw this year.

Ronnie Corbett

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-35934024

Fucking hell, 2016. I hope this isn't a marker for the rest of my life, with a swell of popular people from my youth dying. And then a few quiet years, during which I realise no one else is dying because they're either my age or dead. And then a little upsurge as friends go and I count them off. Um, anyway. Sad, RIP Ronnie.

Aww man.

Maaaan.

Fuck!

2016 so far...
David Bowie
Alan Rickman
Eagles guy
Mott the Hoople guy
Terry Wogan
Frank Finlay
Maurice White
Dave Mirra
Eddie Wally
Justice Scalia
A whole indie band
Smoking magician guy
Harper Lee
Umberto Echo
Eric Brown
Father Jack
George Kennedy
George Martin
Emerson
Paul Daniels
Johan Cruyff
Gary Shandling
Ronnie Corbett

And that's just those mentioned in this thread.

I'd totally forgotten that Terry Wogan had died

It's life in balance, innit? One one side, Scalia, on the other side everyone else on the list.

I'd question the "celebrity" status of 'smoking magician guy' and 'mott the hoople guy'.

Fuck googling to get their real names. I was getting my list on.

Hang on, Wogan was Irish. How can he be a "sir"?

Wasn't he a nationalised British citizen?

I once saw Ronnie Corbett in a pantomime.

He was very small. And dressed as a lady.

RIP Ronnie thanks for all the laughs.

All: oh no he wasn't

THEN ARE THEY TRULY CELEBRITIES? IS OUR BAR TOO LOW? WHAT TRULY DEFINES FAME?

Gah. Poor old Ronnie Corbett; The Two Ronnies were such a 70s and early 80s staple, and personally I always though they were way funnier than Morcambe and Wise when I was a nipper.

Watched the classic 'Mastermind' and 'Name Droppers' sketches at lunchtime. They were the kings of the pun.

I'm not sure if it's the same, but Rolf Harris was an OBE, MBE and CBE before his past came to light (later stripped of titles, obviously).

Australia is still part of the commonwealth which might make a difference.

Yep, Tony Abbott brought back knighting when he was PM.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-35941395

This Morning's agony aunt, Denise Robertson has passed away.

Wogan was appointed an Honorary Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1997, and later elevated to an Honorary Knight Commander of the same order (KBE) in the Queen's Birthday Honours in 2005. After asserting his right to British citizenship (he retained his Irish citizenship) that year, the knighthood was made substantive on 11 October 2005, allowing him to use the style "Sir".[56] On 29 May 2007, he was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire.[57]

Import/Export and international shipping consultant Howard Marks

Mr Nice is a cracking read.

No more Mr Nice guy.

New page made me think Gary Linekar was dead.

David (Gest) is dead!

"Gest was due to tour the UK in a musical show called David Gest Is Not Dead, But Alive With Soul, starting in York on 1 July."
Ironing.

Yeah, he kinda jinxed himself, there.

In the hotel that faces my office. Luckily I left just before the press arrived.

Do you look like him?

BBC said "Entertainer and producer David Gest found dead"

Think they were pushing it in using the word "Entertainer" to describe him

I feel like him at the moment.

No, I was thinking more that a load of press getting to the four season, finding there is nothing to report on and so returning to tax avoidance stories just as I walk out the office smoking a Cuban cigar wouldn't be ideal.

I thought you went everywhere by palanquin