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Australian soap veteran Lorrae Desmond, who is best known for playing Councillor Dean Gilroy on A Country Practice for over a decade, died at 91 years: https://www.smh.com.au/culture/tv-and-radio/enormous-heart-lorrae-desmond-logie-winning-star-of-a-country-practice-dead-at-91-20210523-p57udr.html

People's votes showed what a terrible taste have jurys. Proud of Italy, Congratulations for that nice Rock song!!!

Sorry Toasty, zero fucks given. No free passes for stupidity and calling people “fags”.

I know, I know, I should be doing something more useful with my time, like finding out whether everyone who's ever appeared in the pop charts is alive, dead or caught a chill in 1996.

Who cares about this Eurofag shite. I'm sure you'll find more real music Brit rock/pop/soul/everything in your average wop/dago/kraut/frog's record collection than vice versa. I'll give the eyeties the nod on 19th-century opera, but I mean...it's fucking opera. This post has been brought to you in the spirit of Sir Cuntalot.

Bit harsh on FW there, imo!

Well, you know, Jim Marrs wrote a book on this, the Kennedy conspiracy, and he claimed that those behind it had killed dozens of people to keep the secret, from Hollywood to mafia dons and Popes. And you think, this conspiracy can kill off gangsters, Popes and Presidents, but somehow one crank writer is allowed to stay alive for 40+ years and expose it! (The question is never Who killed Kennedy - Oswald did. It's "why did he do it" and we'll never know for sure because that mob connected guy mysteriously killed Oswald within 24 hours...)

Marathon runner Ron Hill dead at 82.

What, where he so nobly hid behind someone else for his own dead set cuntery?

Henry "Nacho" Laun, who is known for eating large portions and his appearances on Wahlburgers, has been hospitalized after being found unconscious. He is currently in the hospital and is fighting for his life. At the moment, it's unclear exactly what led to Laun's medical emergency. SC

I Just followed the voting phase, I really find it thrilling...but I can confirm what you say since maneskin already overturned the result thanks to the televoting at Sanremo, the national contest which gave them the right to represent Italy at the Eurovision.

Bob "Bozo" Fulton dead at 74 after lengthy battle with cancer

The UK as a whole or personally? UK top 3 public vote was Lithuania (12), Iceland (10), Bulgaria (8). We gave France a decent chunk (5 or 6) and gave Italy (the winners) 2-4. I can't remember exactly. Personally, I voted for Iceland as much on last year as this year in all honesty, but I thought it was a surprisingly decent year for songs and am perfectly happy with the UK's top 3, plus the lukewarm points for Italy.

I think I agree, UK was not the weakest song. It's a bit like the songs Germany submitted a couple of years ago (thinking of our 2016 song, for example): It's competent, harmless and average. Problem is, you need to make people vote for you, and you've got to stand out. There are only 10 teams you can give points to (12,10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1). You can have the 11th best song in Europe overall, but still end up with zero points, if you are exactly at 11th place in every country. Germany's song was much worse, but I guess some judges liked to be slammed with that wokeness hammer and they gave us three pity points. Other worse songs were those spectacularly cheap, but effective songs like Effendi and Loco Loco (Serbia and Albania). They kind of stood out for their open shamelessness, and I kind of liked that. Also, it helps to have some allies, I guess, really strong allies, like Greece and Cyprus. Or Moldova and Bulgaria. But that only takes you above zero, hardly above 100 points.

Daaaamn I wish France had won we were close... sorry for you who didn’t get any points, was neither fair nor representative

Nil Points. The winning song was even sung in foreign. Disgraceful.

Lets leave this here..... Cecilia Bartholemew @CeciliaBTory I really am wishing I hadn't invited Sadie to my house to watch the #Eurovision .She has just spilled an entire glass of red wine over my new cream coloured carpet. She seems to think she is still a teenager and not a senior councillor in her 70s ! #Eurovision2021

Just sent my team over, thanks for running it BG.

I was able to claim my British Coal pension at 50 but it is not enough to retire on.

It does all have the air of desperation. "I'm not getting my way, so here's another thing you did to screw me up." I'm not entirely sure what it is he wants though, he's currently got a free life to do what he wants in the sunshine of LA, with his wife and (soon to be) children and he also gets to keep his title, while doing nothing to warrant it. It is peculiar that the Royal Family has ruined his life yet he still wants to be the Duke of Sussex for some reason.

I would suggest that, had his pow wow with Daddy and Wills gone well(ish) he may have wound his neck in a tad. Clearly, it went fucking badly so the lad is going for broke. He is a massive twat.

Sándor Puhl, the referee for the 1994 World Cup final between Brazil and Italy, and the 1997 UEFA Champions League final between Borussia Dortmund and Juventus has died aged 65. https://regnum.ru/news/3274754.html

One to watch imo. Brian Glanville. Yes, we know he's a grumpy bastard, but he's also one of the greatest sports writers the UK ever had. (Also one of the very few people brave enough to tell Margaret Thatcher to her face she was wrong about something!) Often ahead of the game in his prime, and then if he was a little old man yells at clouds in his dotage, it was always interestingly written dotage. Anyhow, his weekly column ended last year after over 50 years, and the only articles he's had published in the last 15 months were on file obituaries written years ago (but given a slight polish). As he always struck me, and admitted himself, that he'd write until he dropped, this sudden cessation strikes me as worrisome. He'd be 90 in September if he makes it.

Time for a random name of interest from my longlist: Abd-Al-Minaam Khaleel (wiki), Egyptian Army general who was in command of the Second Army during the Yom Kippur War of 1973. He turned 100 on April 1st. Here's a video of him on the occasion. He looks healthy and gives a long speech at an event marking the occasion. Could be around for a while yet.