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Hate articles like this. Saying someone looks amazing, and setting them up for a bald man named Shug to comment that they're hideous/repulsive. She's alive, firstly, and looks as expected when you consider she used to have a BMI of 106 and store fat in her forehead.

QO for Souna https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-13356233/Survivor-season-1-star-Sonja-Christopher-dead-87.html

That'll be Sunak next Friday I expect.

27/04/2024 36 Sophie Ellis-Bextor — Murder On The Dancefloor +4 34 Gorillaz — Feel Good Inc. 29 Kylie Minogue — Love At First Sight 29 Wheatus — Teenage Dirtbag 28 Manic Street Preachers—Your Love Alone Is Not Enough 28 Mark Ronson ft. Amy Winehouse — Valerie 27 Oasis — Stop Crying Your Heart Out 24 Coldplay — In My Place 24 Adele — Chasing Pavements 23 Busted — Year 3000 22 Razorlight — Somewhere Else 18 Coldplay — Speed Of Sound 18 Pink — Get The Party Started 16 Kelis — Trick Me 16 Kylie Minogue — On A Night Like This 14 Justin Timberlake — Cry Me A River 14 Manic Street Preachers — The Love Of Richard Nixon 10 Corinne Bailey Rae — Put Your Records On 08 Daft Punk — One More Time 00 Plain White T’s — Hey There Delilah -6

IMDB is now claiming Pamela Mant died on 13th October 2022 in USA.

Ruth Handler died on this day 22 years ago, aged 85. - Handler would found a plastic furniture company with her husband Elliot. Due to falling sales in World War II, the Handlers would begin making dollhouse furniture, and in 1945 the company was renamed to "Mattel". The dollhouse furniture sale success led to the company fully entering the toy market. - In 1956, Handler would visit Germany, where she would notice a doll based on a comic book character named "Bild Lilli". She would bring one home for her daughter to play with, and noticing the absence of adult-aged female dolls in toy stores (girls would tend to play with baby dolls), decided to redevelop Bild Lilli for an American audience. Three years later, the doll would release, Handler would name it after said daughter- and the rest is history: Barbie's boyfriend Ken would follow in 1961, named after the Handlers' son. - Handler would have a mastectomy following a diagnosis of breast cancer in 1970, and would develop her own prosthetic breasts under a new company, "Ruthton": They were known as "Nearly Me"s. - Handler would resign from Mattel in 1975 after she was reported to have made fraudulent financial reports; she was fined and had to serve 2500 hours of community service. - Handler was later diagnosed with colon cancer and died from complications of surgery treating it. Interest in her surged following the 2023 Barbie movie, where her spirit would be played by Rhea Perlman.

Why admit this on Stern's show of all places? A ratings boost for Howard?

King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands is 57.

I know I have already got the points, but good old Laurence Broderick actually got a BBC obit: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crgy0531x54o My faith in humanity is restored. Just a wee bit.

They should neve have got relegated last season IMO.

First of the first. Sonja Christopher reportedly dead: Source seems reputable. DDP pick.

As I predicted in October, albeit you had the good grace to make it interesting by threatening to collapse! Congratulations Biblio, now if you could see fit to throw 3 points our way next weekend, I'd be most grateful.

Mango boy is a very negative person, might need some therapy.

26th April 34 Gorillaz — Feel Good Inc. 32 Sophie Ellis-Bextor — Murder On The Dancefloor 29 Kylie Minogue — Love At First Sight 29 Wheatus — Teenage Dirtbag 28 Manic Street Preachers—Your Love Is Not Enough 24 Coldplay — In My Place 24 Adele — Chasing Pavements 24 Mark Ronson ft. Amy Winehouse — Valerie 23 Oasis — Stop Crying Your Heart Out 23 Busted — Year 3000 22 Razorlight — Somewhere Else +2 20 Coldplay — Speed Of Sound +2 20 Daft Punk — One More Time 18 Manic Street Preachers — The Love Of Richard Nixon 16 Kylie Minogue — On A Night Like This 16 Pink — Get The Party Started 14 Justin Timberlake — Cry Me A River 12 Kelis — Trick Me -4 10 Corinne Bailey Rae — Put Your Records On 10 Plain White T’s — Hey There Delilah 00 Taylor Swift — Love Story -2

I'd love to hear Jonathan Ross reporting on Rishi rushing and racing to Royalty for Prorogation!

You and everyone bleedin’ else

Some rumblings in the Twitterverse that Rishi maybe going to the Palace in in the next few days. (Before the locals, so presumably pre-empting the letters going in on Fri)

1) the government won't collapse and cohabitation won't happen 2) his death is independent from his daughter future success on an unrelated topic, if the 2027 elections were to be held now, no matter who would be against her, Marine would be elected president by far… Can't wait………

Count Basie died on this day 40 years ago, aged 79. - Basie's actual first name was William, and he began using his stage name sometime around 1928. His parents were instrument players, and they taught him how to play the piano- albeit he preferred drums. - Basie would get his start in Harlem (during its eponymous 'Renaissance' in the 1920s), before moving to Kansas City in 1929. He would play for the Bennie Moten Band, and he would soon take over the band when they kicked Moten out. He would rename it 'Count Basie and His Cherry Blossoms', before later renaming it to 'Count Basie and His Barons of Rhythm'. Among his biggest hits included "One O'Clock Jump" and "Boogie Woogie": - Basie's band would break up once the big band era ended following World War II, but he would make a new orchestral band in 1952, called "The New Testament Band", moving from swing and blues to jazz at this time. - Basie would make a few cameos in movies in his later years, most notably in Blazing Saddles: - Basie was one of the musicians mentioned in Stevie Wonder's "Sir Duke", and one of two alive at the time of the song's release in 1977 (the other being Ella Fitzgerald). Basie was specifically the first one mentioned in the second verse's lyrics. - Basie died from pancreatic cancer.

Doctor Who actor Tom Baker delights staff by posing with Dalek at Sid’s Emporium in Tenterden https://www.kentonline.co.uk/tenterden/news/doctor-who-star-poses-with-dalek-at-kent-shop-305739/

The gift that keeps on giving. Private Eye again.

Great, but my personal favourite is Nights in White Satin, which was a Hayward composition.

MP for Birken-Dead 5/50 23rd April 2024 Veteran Labour politician, Frank Field has finally succumbed to cancer after a decade long battle. Field first entered the realm of politics in 1964 when he became a councillor on the Hounslow borough council but he lost his bid for reelection in 1968 and instead became director of The Child Poverty Action Group. His first attempt to join parliament in 1966 was unsuccessful as he failed to usurp the incumbent Conservative MP in the South Buckinghamshire constituency, however in 1979 he was elected MP for the Birkenhead constituency, where he remained until 2019. Throughout Thatcher’s government Field occasionally sat on the front benches of the opposition, holding minor roles and chairing committees. In 1997, Tony Blair appointed him Minister for Welfare Reform but didn’t last long in the role as he was constantly clashing with other ministers and he eventually resigned after only 14 months, with Blair describing his ideas as “unfathomable”. Upon returning to the backbenches, he became a vocal critic of both Blair and Brown’s governments, even at one point before the 2010 election attempting to have Brown replaced. Field was a strong supporter of Brexit and increasingly lost support from his party and constituents for his views. In 2018 he left the Labour party citing internal racism as his reason, however some commentators have suggested he only left to save the embarrassment of being sacked. In the 2019 election he stood as an independent candidate in his constituency and much to no-one’s surprise didn’t win, but was appointed to the House of Lords in 2020. In October 2021 he announced he had terminal cancer and had been in hospice care; he had initially been diagnosed with prostate cancer around 2013. He died yesterday aged 81. He was making his third appearance on the Crowdsourced Deathlist, this year at no.9