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Watching ch5 (uk) she appeared on one of these greatest hits programmes. FFS, didn't realise she was 81. looks older, maybe one for a reserve list.

News of John Morgan's death has reached the public domain. Covid, it would appear. Still gigging a fortnight ago.

Where did you hear that? If true I think @Ulitzer95 perspective/ theory in their post is most likely what happened. The Duchess of Grafton was one of the Queens closest and oldest friends and attending her funeral would have been very important to her

There's a 9-second (new?) clip here at 0:08. Can't really judge a lot on it but looks great, sounds a bit frailish. Her 100th birthday is in a month and there will be some kind of a special movie event in which she will be joined by a couple of celebs including Robert Redford, Clint Eastwood, Morgan Freeman, Jay Leno and Carol Burnett.

The Covid passports (which I also instinctively disagree with) have probably played a small part, but this is a seat that wouldn’t have even needed a by-election if Johnson had just suspended Paterson for a bit. Instead, he tried to protect one of his own corrupt minions and it enormously backfired because he’s an idiot as well as a cunt.

Annoyingly, my nr. 23 Russell Maroon Shoatz has died and will be replaced by my nr. 1 sub. Even more annoyingly, I apparently forgot an X there. So it was not 6-6-6, but 7-6-6. Anyway, he's dead.

Give it time....

My daughter and I often listen to Malt Shop music in the car when we run errands. "Please Mr. Postman" was one of those tracks we were listening to yesterday. Got home and logged on to see that Wanda Young had passed away.

I probably won't submit anything. The whole deadpooling thing doesn't spark joy. I only put in 2 (?) teams all year and went away from the forum for 4 months. I'm very much not well, in all honesty, but I prefer to keep my neurotic ramblings offline. We'll see what happens come Hogmanay.

She clearly has body dysmorphia. If you look at photos before any plastic surgery she was actually a pretty person. At least six boob jobs (to increase or decrease) and much botox later...

My own team has now been posted in hidden form. Keep your teams coming. I am recognizing they come in, will not look at the PMed ones. And the public ones are okay after the double entry correction.

I agree that Tom Cruise is cancer, but there is enough botox and Scientology in him for cancer to reject him.

I think a fortnight from date of publication of the list of celebrities is quite sufficient for the Committee to be notified of any changes. Especially where there are two folk of the same/similar name...one dies and the other is named, so in steps the player to say oh yeah, I meant the dead one. What, in fucking June? NAWWWWWWW! I'd say you have a limited time to ensure your team is correct otherwise you live with the team you're given. There's also plenty of eyes here on the list watching for duplications etc.

Team sent by PM, gcreptile. Thanks for running this.

Knighted business executive Sir Christopher Hogg death notice: http://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/deaths/253983/hogg-sir-christopher Yeah, it's all blah blah blah, Chief Exec of Courtaulds, non-exec director of the Bank of England, former Chair of Reuters Group, YAWN!! What is important however is that his wife is Miriam Stoppard, or should I say Miriam, Lady Hogg, doctor, author, presenter and born 1937 so getting up there in possible selection.

There can only be one tribute

I've had more people die off my main team entry than I have on my 2021 entry (all teams) all year! Maybe I should have gone down the unique picks route rather than populist. Just waiting on the next faller tbh.

Research for my 1986 TOTP Theme Team is finished. Going to compile this tomorrow - and for the first time I'm not convinced some of my starting line up will make the start gate. That will allow me to complete my line up for my main team. As previously, comedy team will write itself. We are into the worst period where you've waited all year and nobody moves on, then there's a flurry at the end. Some big names are falling already.

Stage actor Barry Rutter OBE battled throat cancer during lockdown: https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/news/celebs-tv/hull-actor-reveals-lockdown-cancer-6098085

Death Notice for Sir Peter Thompson aged 93: http://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/deaths/252751/thompson Known as the godfather of the management buyout, he led the National Freight Corporation as it became effectively privatised through an employee share buyout in 1982, one of the first privatisations of a state owned industry. As a result, Sir Peter made millions personally from the deal when the company was floated in the late 1980s on the Stock Exchange. (That's Thatcherite Conservatism folks!). He even wrote a book about it, thus squeezing every last penny from his story, called Sharing The Success: The Story Of NFC.

After much hand wringing and speculation, PNE confirm: https://www.pnefc.net/news/2021/october/club-statement-mr-trevor-hemmings/

In 2016, I managed 8 unique hits across three teams, too. Two times, I had 4 unique hits on a team, once Shameless, once B-team. I do wonder though, if someone in the old times managed more unique hits - mostly because of fewer players?

Phillip King, British sculptor of the 1960s dead at 87: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/phillip-king-sculptor-dead-1234600427/

Obits for Maureen Coverdale who performed as Yvonne Michel, one half of the speciality dance act Yvonne Michel and Erik, who performed here and across the USA: https://www.blackpoolgazette.co.uk/news/people/farewell-to-maureen-who-featured-alongside-legends-3191930 and https://www.thestage.co.uk/obituaries--archive/obituaries/yvonne-michel Eric died in 2012. IMDB probably needs notified they are both dead.

Geoff Thompson, drummer for the Walsall based band Listen which included a young Robert Plant, reported dead by his daughter: