Celebrity Deathlist 2016

chinnyhill10 · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 15695

RIP The Chief Caretaker.

chinnyhill10 · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 15695

Ironically the latest "Wife In Space" is actually the story Briers was in:

http://wifeinspace.com/2013/02/paradise-towers/

Hero of Excellence · **Joined:** 23rd Nov, 2008 **Posts:** 674

Dimrill wrote:

zaphod79 wrote:

Richard Briers passing has just flashed up on the BBC ticker although they dont have a page up yet.

Yeah, UKComedyNews has just ran with the story. Sad. The Beeb ran an article on him about a month ago where he described himself as buggered with emphysema.

Awww, poor bloke.

Horrible thing to die from. Had many relatives die of emphysema, definitely isn't pleasant.

NervousPete · **Posted:** Mon Feb 18, 2013 17:51

Aw, I liked Briers. Sorry to hear it wasn't an easy passing, either.

He was great in a whole hatful of things, but I especially want to remember him as Bardolph in Henry V, as he turned a hand to some great Shakespearan roles and in coming straight from pure sitcom land, that is not an easy thing to do.

Agent Starling · **Joined:** 8th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 1701

Genuinely sad about Briers. The Good Life and Ever Decreasing Circles are two of the finest ever British comedies, up there with Reggie Perrin (obviously, the original).

Still, he's left a fine body of work behind and that's something to treasure.

devilman · **Posted:** Fri Feb 22, 2013 21:51

Bob Godfrey

MaliA · **Posted:** Fri Feb 22, 2013 22:08

Agent Starling wrote:

Genuinely sad about Briers. The Good Life and Ever Decreasing Circles are two of the finest ever British comedies, up there with Reggie Perrin (obviously, the original).

Still, he's left a fine body of work behind and that's something to treasure.

Cockneys vs zombies disagrees. Although it was a laugh.

devilman · **Posted:** Sat Feb 23, 2013 23:29

Not sure if he counts as a celebrity, but according to the BBC News ticker - 'Ray Cusick, who designed the original Daleks on the BBC's Doctor Who, dies aged 84'

chinnyhill10 · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 15695

devilman wrote:

Not sure if he counts as a celebrity, but according to the BBC News ticker - 'Ray Cusick, who designed the original Daleks on the BBC's Doctor Who, dies aged 84'

Do you know who Cusick replaced as the designer on the first Dalek story due to a scheduling conflict? Ridley Scott!

ApplePieOfDestiny · **Joined:** 17th Dec, 2008 **Posts:** 8293

Phil Collins dead

TheVision · **Posted:** Thu Feb 28, 2013 15:31

ApplePieOfDestiny wrote:

Phil Collins dead

Serious? Where did you hear that?

Morte · **Posted:** Thu Feb 28, 2013 15:32

Where did you get that info?

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14489

I think he means the person he played who took part in the Great Train Robbery

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21617926

Quote:

Great Train Robber Bruce Reynolds dies aged 81

Bruce Reynolds, who was the key planner behind the £2.6m Great Train Robbery in 1963, has died aged 81.

Reynolds evaded capture for five years, mainly spent overseas, but after returning to England was captured in 1968. He spent 10 years in jail.

The haul from the raid by 15 men on a mail train, stopped in Buckinghamshire, was a record at that time.

Train driver Jack Mills was struck over the head during the robbery and never worked again. He died in 1970.

Following Reynolds' release from prison in 1978, life proved a struggle and he was jailed again in the 1980s for three years for dealing amphetamines.

In the late 80s he worked briefly as a consultant on a film about the robbery, Buster, and went on to publish The Autobiography of a Thief in 1995.

By then, he was living on income support in a south London flat supplied by a charitable trust.

Reynolds' son Nick said his father had died in his sleep in the early hours of Thursday.

"He hadn't been well for a few days and I was looking after him," he said. "I really can't talk at the moment. I can confirm that he has passed away and he died in his sleep."

The £2.6m haul from the Glasgow-to-London train, which the gang brought to a stop near Cheddington by changing a signal to red, is equivalent to £40m in today's money.

TheVision · **Posted:** Thu Feb 28, 2013 15:44

That's a relief.. I like Phil Collins.

*Edit* Not a relief that someone has died obviously, just that it's not Phil.. You know what I mean.

MaliA · **Posted:** Thu Feb 28, 2013 15:51

TheVision wrote:

That's a relief.. I like Phil Collins.

*Edit* Not a relief that someone has died obviously, just that it's not Phil.. You know what I mean.

He's a violent drug dealing criminal that went on the lam. Couldn't do the time. Cunt's better off dead. String 'em up. that Kray, on the uvva hand, never hurt a woman or child. 'ad 'im in the back of me cab once.

As train robberies go, it was shit. they got caught and lost the money. Dicks. Like saying Mihael Jackson was a good babysitter.

TheVision · **Posted:** Thu Feb 28, 2013 16:00

MaliA wrote:

Like saying Mihael Jackson was a good babysitter.

Yeah, Michael Jackson was much better.

Runcle · **Posted:** Thu Feb 28, 2013 16:00

Maybe the 'great' is just to describe how bloody good the train was.

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38464

"'Great' meaning large or immense, we mean it in the pejorative sense!"

Kern · **Posted:** Sun Mar 03, 2013 11:15

Can we have a ruling on whether 'The Pope' refers to the ex-Pope or to his successor?

Mr Russell · **Joined:** 6th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 12243

Isn't the old one now called The Pope Emeritus or something? I think anyone writing 'The Pope' when submitting their list would have been clearly referring to Eggs Benedict, but we should probably await Dimrill's ruling.

kalmar · **Posted:** Mon Mar 04, 2013 20:42

What odds are we getting on HRH The Queen?

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38464

Why are my choices not in the first post?

MaliA · **Posted:** Tue Mar 05, 2013 23:06

Chavez 58 and out.

Curiosity · **Posted:** Wed Mar 06, 2013 10:16

MaliA wrote:

Chavez 58 and out.

At this rate I'll nearly have a full set by the end of the year!

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49232

Paul Bearer AKA Bill Moody, also 58.

http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j& ... 7494,d.ZWU

Pundabaya · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 5016

Paul Bearer .... REST IN PEACE! *DOOONNG!*

Dimrill · **Posted:** Wed Mar 13, 2013 18:38

Not a good day for musicians. Peter Banks and ex-Iron Maiden drummer Clive Burr.

chinnyhill10 · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 15695

Norman Coll.... has died. Famous f.. his bro...n mic .outine:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21798955

chinnyhill10 · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 15695

The Curse of Are You Being Served strikes again. Frank Thornton is deaded at 92.

Grim... · **Posted:** Mon Mar 18, 2013 12:56

chinnyhill10 wrote:

The Curse of Are You Being Served strikes again. Frank Thornton is deaded at 92.

"Dead at 92" sounds like a curse I'd quite like to be hit with.

MaliA · **Posted:** Mon Mar 18, 2013 13:05

Grim... wrote:

chinnyhill10 wrote:

The Curse of Are You Being Served strikes again. Frank Thornton is deaded at 92.

"Dead at 92" sounds like a curse I'd quite like to be hit with.

Not if you are a ten pin bowler.

Dimrill · **Posted:** Wed Mar 20, 2013 19:56

No more "The Fog" by James Herbert.

Grim... · **Posted:** Wed Mar 20, 2013 20:12

Bugger

asfish · **Joined:** 5th Dec, 2010 **Posts:** 3353

Dimrill wrote:

No more "The Fog" by James Herbert.

Shame and a bit of a shock. I've read all his books.

MaliA · **Posted:** Thu Mar 21, 2013 10:05

Girls Aloud

TheVision · **Posted:** Thu Mar 21, 2013 10:08

Let's hope Nicola Roberts can release another solo album then.. Her first was brilliant.

Curiosity · **Posted:** Thu Mar 21, 2013 10:26

TheVision wrote:

Let's hope Nicola Roberts can release another solo album then.. Her first was brilliant.

Grim... · **Posted:** Thu Mar 21, 2013 10:33

Quote:

They sold more than 4.3 million singles
They won a 2009 Brit award for best single, The Promise
They had 20 consecutive top 10 hits between 2002 and 2009

That's a bit shit for a mega-hyped band, isn't it?

Leona Lewis sold 9,000,000 singles - and that was just Bleeding Love

MaliA · **Posted:** Thu Mar 21, 2013 10:34

The Promise is a superb song.

TheVision · **Posted:** Thu Mar 21, 2013 10:42

Grim... wrote:

Quote:

They sold more than 4.3 million singles
They won a 2009 Brit award for best single, The Promise
They had 20 consecutive top 10 hits between 2002 and 2009

That's a bit shit for a mega-hyped band, isn't it?

Leona Lewis sold 9,000,000 singles - and that was just Bleeding Love

Leona Lewis was mega successful though... I'm sure I had a point to this post but I just got distracted by work... Pah!

MaliA · **Posted:** Thu Mar 21, 2013 10:46

TheVision wrote:

Grim... wrote:

Quote:

They sold more than 4.3 million singles
They won a 2009 Brit award for best single, The Promise
They had 20 consecutive top 10 hits between 2002 and 2009

That's a bit shit for a mega-hyped band, isn't it?

Leona Lewis sold 9,000,000 singles - and that was just Bleeding Love

Leona Lewis was mega successful though... I'm sure I had a point to this post but I just got distracted by work... Pah!

Leona Lewis had the X factor as a launch vehicle, though, and when Girls Aloud first apepared that particular juggernaut had not yet reached its collossal momentum. "Sound of the Underground" is also still a mighty fine song.

TheVision · **Posted:** Thu Mar 21, 2013 10:48

I like "The Show". It reminds me of a good time in my life.

Grim... · **Posted:** Thu Mar 21, 2013 10:49

I'm not debating the quality of their output, just that the figures seem really low for a decade's "work".

MaliA · **Posted:** Thu Mar 21, 2013 10:51

Grim... wrote:

I'm not debating the quality of their output, just that the figures seems really low for a decade's "work".

It does seem to be quite low, yes. Surprisingly low. Their last single reached Number 97, which prioabbly helped their decision...

TheVision · **Posted:** Thu Mar 21, 2013 10:52

They also had 3 years off as well don't forget, so that's not going to help their figures. In fact, if you read their Wikipedia page.. The word 'Hiatus' appears quite a few times.

Morte · **Posted:** Thu Mar 21, 2013 11:57

All these posts for Girls Aloud? You people sicken me.

MaliA · **Posted:** Thu Mar 21, 2013 12:03

The man sitting opposite me used to live on teh same road as Ms Walsh.

Curiosity · **Posted:** Thu Mar 21, 2013 12:04

Grim... - Leona broke America, Girls Aloud did not. They've still sold a lot, just Leona/Adele/1D sold a fuckload.

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14489

Harry Reems

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21874543

Trooper · **Joined:** 4th Mar, 2010 **Posts:** 22270

MaliA wrote:

The man sitting opposite me used to live on teh same road as Ms Walsh.

My cousin went to school with fay from steps.

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