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RIP Margartet!

Iain registering as his alter ego here was one of the greatest own goals in site history. Otherwise we'd never have connected Iain to Cecilia Bartholemew.

I'm really in 2 minds on whether to follow him on Twitter or not. I just might troll him for a change.

Yeah It`s a funny old game.

1987: Ozzy Osbourne (1/31)  1989: Frank Bruno, Mike Ditka, Ozzy Osbourne, Brian Wilson, David Jenkins (5/32) 1990: Queen Elizabeth II, Mike Ditka, Rex Williams, Oprah Winfrey, Terry Waite (5/42)  1991: Leo Beenhakker (1/40)  1992: Shaun Ryder (1/37)  1993: Tony Bennett, Henry Kissinger, Ray Kennedy, George Lineker, Jerry Lee Lewis (5/56)  1994: Edmund White, Holly Johnson, Peter Shilton (3/50)  1995: Holly Johnson (1/50)  1996: Mr T (1/50)  1997: (0/50)  1998: (0/50)  1999: Nick Leeson, Carly Simon (2/50)  2000: Louis Farrakhan (1/50)  2001: Desmond Tutu, Liza Minnelli (2/50)  2002: (0/50)  2003: (0/50)  2004: Pervez Musharraf (1/50)  2005: Hamed Karzai (1/50) 2006: Abdelaziz Bouteflika (1/50)  2007: Tim Johnson, Louis Farrakhan (2/50)  2008: Russell Watson, Hamed Karzai, Charles Taylor (3/50)  2009: (0/50)  2010: Angela Lansbury (1/50)  2011: Ali Khamenei, Bob Dole, Dick Cheney, Michael Douglas (4/50)  2012: Nigel Lawson, Henry Kissinger, Dick Van Dyke, Saif al-Islam Gaddafi (4/50) 2013: Prince Philip, Bob Dole, Henry Kissinger (3/50)  2014: Wilko Johnson, Prince Philip, Dick Van Dyke, Tony Bennett, Ed Asner (5/50)  2015: Prince Philip, Leslie Phillips, Bob Dole, Henry Kissinger, Jake Roberts (5/50)  2016: Prince Phillip, Bob Dole, Prunella Scales, Jimmy Carter, Henry Kissinger, Tommy Chong, Leslie Phillips, Sandy Gall, Desmond Tutu, Lester Piggott, Murray Walker, Jimmy Greaves, Paul Gascoigne (13/50)  2017: Prince Phillip, Bob Dole, Jimmy Carter, Leslie Phillips, Betty White, Queen Elizabeth ll, Bob Barker, Ian St John, Sandy Gall, Pope Benedict XVI, Desmond Tutu, Emperor Akihito (11/50)  2018: Prince Philip, Betty White, Linda Nolan, Bob Dole, Bob Barker, Prunella Scales, Jimmy Carter, Leslie Phillips, Henry Kissinger, Dick Van Dyke, Stanley Baxter, Mel Brooks, Pope Benedict XVI, June Brown, Louis Farrakhan, Ian St. John, Jimmy Greaves, Ronnie Wood, Olivia Newton-John, Joni Mitchell, Paul Gascoigne (20/50)  2019: Prince Philip, Jimmy Carter, Bob Dole, Henry Kissinger, Bob Barker, Murray Walker, Emperor Akihito, Betty White, June Brown, Alan Greenspan, Dick Van Dyke, Barbara Walters, Harry Belafonte, Desmond Tutu, Ed Asner, Vanessa Redgrave, Jimmy Greaves, Sidney Poitier, Cleo Laine, Loretta Lynn, Mikhail Gorbachev, Prunella Scales, Tina Turner, Shane MacGowan (24/50) 2020: Prince Philip, Dick Van Dyke, Emperor Akihito, Bob Dole, Murray Walker, Betty White, Angela Lansbury, Bob Barker, Alan Greenspan, Henry Kissinger, Jimmy Carter, Leslie Phillips, Tony Bennett, Harry Belafonte, Prunella Scales, Desmond Tutu, Jacques Delors, Willie Nelson, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, Shane MacGowan, Dick Cheney, Imelda Marcos, Lester Piggott, Joanne Woodward, David Crosby, Tom Smith, Jean-Marie Le Pen, Pervez Musharraf, David Attenborough (29/50) Updated for Ian St John.

Iain now claiming he's a mate of the Duke.

Death of St. John puts my Shadow List ahead of DL for the first time this year. Ian St. John Rush Limbaugh Carlos Menem Leon Spinks Larry King

Bet she fucking hates Suits on Prime and Netflix.

Looking forward to your sources on this one...

Yes, because the head of the Royal Family is the head of state, and the BBC is the state broadcaster. Guess who they may be inclined to tell first?

Not really, no. Not hurt any planned audio work as he's apparently been persona non grata with Big Finish Productions for several years now. Was however unable to contribute to the recent Season 8 boxset DVD extras as he was "very ill". This was filmed before his first hospital stay in October so its a long term issue. Reading between lines, lung or heart, but no evidence to hand.

Sad News-and a miss by the committee.

Ha ha, you've killed me Greavesie.

Michael Gudinski, a noted promoter in the Australian music scene and the man who launched Kylie Minogue's career, has died. He was 68. https://www.adelaidenow.com.au/entertainment/music/australian-music-industry-in-shock-as-michael-gudinski-passes-away-aged-68/news-story/9e1288da263be4f5de7a41f939b6ffe8

Happy 90th birthday Mikhail Gorbachev He should return on the Deathlist again in 2022 if he still is alive by then, and stay on it untill he dies imo

I see his Twitter alter ego has come to the attention of journalists before. I wonder if they'd be interested in exposing who he is seeing as they have the ability to uncloak prominent trolls. It would make for one of these comical tabloid stories "EXPOSED: Housebound man Iain, 33, assumes online identity of an 80 year old Tory lady called Cecilia from his council flat – pretends to be personal friend of the Queen". Might ping it on to a few of my journo mates and see if they want to pick it up.

Lunch break mystery... (yeah, that's what I do as almost the only one in my department to not be working from home). I caught this story in the Guardian about Chinese billionaires kicking out British millionaires of newly acquired golf clubs: https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/mar/02/wentworth-golf-club-reignwood-yan-bin In the article, I stumbled across Sir Stanley Simmons, former physician of the queen, supposedly still alive in his 80s. Only, he's been dead since 2017: https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/thetimes-uk/obituary.aspx?n=stanley-clifford-simmons&pid=185691622 And the article had already been run by the Guardian in 2016: https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/feb/20/battle-for-wentworth-golf-club-surrey-super-rich So yeah, they altered the article slightly, put a new author on top, but didn't remember to check their quotations. (I'm kind of considering talking to the author on his twitter account later) Edit: Well, the author is an author and actually relevant historian at the University of Cambridge... Jesus, you'd think he'd be a little more careful.

Yes. No.

I never thought he'd go before greavsie. Rip Ian

Sad news a true legend brilliant player and pundit, would of thought Greavsie would of been the first to go out of the famous Duo as I thought St. John was getting better but I suppose when you have cancer you never know. RIP.

Erminia Motika, mother of celebrity / TV cook Lidia Bastianich, has died about two weeks ago at 100: https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/chef-lidia-bastianichs-beloved-mother-grandma-died.html/ Most marginal person I ever allowed in the Death By Numbers. Picked last year.

Actually all reports we have is the Queen is a big fan of the BBC. Well, BBC drama at least.

Gets out of hospital next week, looking exactly like the corpse he did when he went in. Confounds 30+ pages of tedious speculation here (particular emphasis on fucking repeaty tweety shit) and lives until well into next year. Then carks it overnight on 1st April 2022 without a single sign beforehand making us all look like the fools we so clearly are. Oh how we'll look back and laugh.

Wait until you see the red 'dead' tag next to his name. You'll know for sure.

The picture in that article is from September 2019 or am I missing something more recent?