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Personal rules: 1) Are they someone who will attract any interesting discussion? Cliff Richard probably isn't going to drop dead any time soon, but there's always lots of rumour and innuendo about him 2) Are they actually famous? Threads for the second bass player from The Bluetones probably aren't valuable 3) Are they in the public eye? Threads about hermits won't work, which is why I wouldn't start a, say, Bobbie Gentry thread. However, Jenny Ditski got a thread from me because she was very vocal on Twitter during her final months. 4) Are you post-whoring? Please don't.

@YoungWillz was astounded that this 80s children's entertainer (famous for narrating Thomas the Tank Engine in the UK - Americans had George Carlin iirc) didn't have his own friend. He appeared on the original Deathlist. So here he is, a thread for all things Starkey. Apparently he was also in a band back in the day.

Does this guy REALLY deserve his own thread?!?!?!?! What about The Beatles thread?? There's only two of them in that thread FFS!! So is that one redundant now??? Can't fucking believe it!!!!!

Despite having the Betty Driver Memorial Thread and the Yewtree thread @YoungWillz thought that I should start a thread for the only person who's managed to hold down a job he can't do for knocking on 60 years. Corrie bosses if you're reading this I'm also a shit actor and like Coronation Street, could do with a 60 year career fucking up my lines and giving two emotional expressions only to cover every situation. Just PM me. Claims to have shagged 1,000+ women. Probably why he struggled to remember details when he was intimately grilled about them in the name of Yewtree but got away with it. Best known for fucking up his lines in thousands of episodes of Coronation Street, yet being an egotistical maniac who thinks he'd have been the next Hollywood superstar if he had turned Corrie down. Views himself as the guardian of Ken Barlow and constantly argues with producers over whether Ken would do something. One of the last survivors of the original cast of Coronation Street and cult icon in the United Kingdom. Despite his obvious insanity, purely through longevity he's become important in the national psyche and penetrated far beyond the world of soap, how many fictional marital scraps have the outcome shown on the scoreboard at Old Trafford? Spiritually searching for something with his weird cults that he belongs to, aged massively in the past few years so might be about to cark it you never know. Wants to work until he's 100 unfortunately for those of us who actually watch Corrie, but working that long might induce a stress related heart attack to save us all from his one emotion and bad delivery.... I'm only starting this thread to avoid whoever does when he eventually carks it opening it with some post-humous glowing eulogisation of the ineffective, lucky old cunt in his thread's first post. Always remember he's a shit actor who isn't sacked because he's been their too long to sack.

The flipside to your point 1 - If they definitely are going to drop dead any moment now, is it really worth starting a thread about them?

You forgot Thomas Remengesau Sr., acting president of Palau between 30 June and 2 July 1985.

Although official figures in 2013 put it closer to 995 women and 5 young girls. (this later got corrected by the courts back up to the original 1,000).

*innocent face*

I'm so angry I can't remember how to write 1, 1000, 51, 6 and 500 in Roman numerals. . . . . . I M LIVID.

Someone was going to fucking do this.

Look at my Hare's Pool team, plenty there for the accursed...ha! In recent times, Starr's stopped signing autographs, become a great-grandfather and been knighted. And it's his birthday soon....

To be fair, I've never had a warning point or been banned. Love you too...

I'm pretty damn certain there's a thread for Bill Roache but then again he's covered under Betty Driver thread, similarly Ringo's covered under the beatles thread.

I prefer the "Drake ordered his assassination" conspiracy.

Are you having to put up with conspiracy theories that he faked his death as well. My little brother and sister won't stop showing me a video of him breathing under a sheet as proof of him being alive and they keep showing me the video of him slumped over and asking me where's the bullet holes and where's the blood.

I have only ever started 2 threads, for people I thought were Deathlist potentials: Robert Hardy and John Hume. Hardy died without getting on the list, but there's hope for Hume yet. Anyone I ever think deserves a thread, it usually turns out Sean made the thread 4 years ago...

Her first cousin and 12th in line to the throne, Princess Elisabeth of Denmark, has died. http://royalcentral.co.uk/europe/princess-elisabeth-of-denmark-has-died-at-the-age-of-83-104794

Actually they lost because I got them in work sweep.

Puts you in the top 40.

A skateboarding bear has turned on its trainers at a Russian circus, pinning a man to the ground in front of stunned onlookers. Video included! SC https://au.news.yahoo.com/skateboarding-bear-turns-trainer-front-205019249.html

Jahseh Dwayne Onfroy or as he was known XXXTentacion, died aged 20, real name scores 32 omitting the middle name, stage name 35.

Acting ended for James Gandolfini on this day 5 years ago, aged 51.

If phrases allowed GC , "fighting cancer" is up there.

Wrestling's favourite screw-ups the Von Erichs surely have the distinction of most members of one generation beating the deficit? Chris Von Erich (26 > 21), Mike Von Erich (26 > 23) and David Von Erich (26 > 25), plus Jack Adkisson who died before he could become a pro-wrestler and get his name changed to Von Erich (30 > 7). Sadly Kerry Von Erich lived five years too late to beat his deficit, and Kevin Von Erich is a disgrace to his family name by still being alive.