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Uh oh, maybe Gooseberry is right about the enema year incoming after all…

A big oof if I ever saw one:

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, George Lineker, Jerry Lee Lewis (4/56)  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: Liza Minnelli (1/50)  2002: (0/50) 2003: (0/50)  2004: Pervez Musharraf (1/50)  2005: Hamed Karzai (1/50) 2006: (0/50)  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, Dick Cheney, Michael Douglas (3/50)  2012: Nigel Lawson, Henry Kissinger, Dick Van Dyke, Saif al-Islam Gaddafi (4/50) 2013: Henry Kissinger (1/50)  2014: Wilko Johnson, Dick Van Dyke, Tony Bennett (3/50)  2015: Leslie Phillips, Henry Kissinger, Jake Roberts (3/50)  2016: Prunella Scales, Jimmy Carter, Henry Kissinger, Tommy Chong, Leslie Phillips, Sandy Gall, Lester Piggott, Paul Gascoigne (8/50)  2017: Jimmy Carter, Leslie Phillips, Queen Elizabeth ll, Bob Barker, Sandy Gall, Pope Benedict XVI, Emperor Akihito (7/50)  2018: Linda Nolan, Bob Barker, Prunella Scales, Jimmy Carter, Leslie Phillips, Henry Kissinger, Dick Van Dyke, Stanley Baxter, Mel Brooks, Pope Benedict XVI, June Brown, Louis Farrakhan, Ronnie Wood, Olivia Newton-John, Joni Mitchell, Paul Gascoigne (16/50)  2019: Jimmy Carter, Henry Kissinger, Bob Barker, Emperor Akihito, June Brown, Alan Greenspan, Dick Van Dyke, Barbara Walters, Harry Belafonte, Vanessa Redgrave, Sidney Poitier, Cleo Laine, Loretta Lynn, Mikhail Gorbachev, Prunella Scales, Tina Turner, Shane MacGowan (16/50) 2020: Dick Van Dyke, Emperor Akihito, Angela Lansbury, Bob Barker, Alan Greenspan, Henry Kissinger, Jimmy Carter, Leslie Phillips, Tony Bennett, Harry Belafonte, Prunella Scales, Jacques Delors, Willie Nelson, Shane MacGowan, Dick Cheney, Imelda Marcos, Lester Piggott, Joanne Woodward, David Crosby, Tom Smith, Jean-Marie Le Pen, Pervez Musharraf, David Attenborough (23/50) 2021: Dick Van Dyke, Emperor Akihito, Loretta Lynn, Angela Lansbury, Bob Barker, Alan Greenspan, Henry Kissinger, June Brown, Jimmy Carter, Leslie Phillips, Jacques Delors, Ali Khamenei, David Crosby, Prunella Scales, Tony Bennett, Rosalynn Carter, Dick Cheney, Queen Elizabeth II, Harry Belafonte, Bob Newhart, Barbara Walters, Pope Benedict XVI, Imelda Marcos, Yoko Ono, Linda Nolan, Joanne Woodward, Mel Brooks, Willie Nelson, Betty Boothroyd, Jean-Marie Le Pen, Sidney Poitier, Raul Castro, Burt Bacharach, Stanley Baxter, Bernard Cribbins, Vanessa Redgrave, Shane MacGowan, Shannen Doherty (37/50) Updated for Sidney Poitier

Stewart Gilray, found of Just Add Water studios and the man behind all the Oddworld games, dead from COVID at 51.

Thought I should just finish this off with the final graph and thoughts Finishing on 12 hits 2021 just managed to draw level with 2016 and 2018 the following years after these two performances were better 2017 broke the record and 2019 managed 13 hits. I am comfortable with my prediction of 14 hits based on the list this year I finished 2021 on 13 hits on my shadow list with Tutu & White being late scorers for me

George Rossi who played DC Duncan Lennox has died at the age of 61.

Yeah look what happened to Tom Baker

I don't defend any corrupt liars who have had their snouts in the trough, they are despicable vermin. But you talk a load of bollocks.

Dead, according to this. I say let’s wait until we get a better source reporting it

She is a 87-years old adamant anti-vaxxer, so that might be risky.

I always listen to my own advice re my DDP teams. Sadly, I'm an unreliable informant.

One Man and His God - where representatives from various faiths try and move sheep, only using the power of prayer. (I think this may have been mooted before and I can't claim credit for the idea)

Sidney Poitier a hit for Yvonne

I should taken your advice and stuck him on my DDP team. He did make the shortlist when it had about 100 people on it...

Look who cares about the journey ,if he ends up being buggered by Tyrone.

Robert Hughes, Baron Hughes of Woodside, former Labour MP for Aberdeen North and anti-devolutionist voter that essentially among other reasons led to the no confidence vote in the Callaghan government, reportedly dead at 90:

I’m reminded of a Sean Lock skit on Cats Countdown where he pitched ‘Nazi Island’.

Celebrity Big Brother with deposed/former dictators. (Housemates for Season 1 would be Charles Taylor, Mengistu, Omar al-Bashir, Yahya Jammeh, Than Shwe, Raul Castro and Desi Bouterse) and maybe a Naked Big Brother, I would like to see how that'd work. With dictators? Maybe "How are they doing?" a (preferably internationally syndicated) program that follows the daily life of elderly notable people not seen in public for a while.

That would be very inconsiderate of him

Italian film director Mariano Laurenti died at 93. https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.corriere.it/spettacoli/22_gennaio_07/morto-mariano-laurenti-regista-dell-ubalda-tutta-nuda-tutta-calda-cfce1442-6fa3-11ec-81f1-db9197a63523_amp.html&ved=2ahUKEwim0ojU6p_1AhU8if0HHdWPA0cQFnoECEIQAQ&usg=AOvVaw3VUhCqQxahf5_WY5j1weQ-

These god damn Indian/Bangladeshi people always bounce back for atleast a while after hanging on by a thread. He was minutes from death according to his son before he got critical care drugs on the 2nd of January. Pretty sure he still isn't out of the woods.

@John Key Are you in? I would like the opportunity to go head to head with you again!!

Always think of this anytime I hear of him