Gooseberry Crumble

Another one for the DDP list of the Missed right of the heels of Noeline Donaher@YoungWillz @Death Impends .A unique pick for my Gooseberry Crumble team in 2022! My sins are many this year alas both Will and @msc did warn me about keeping more of my picks from year to year and the chickens have certainly come home to roost in 2024.

Thank you. What an intriguing thought and possibility. Lots of careful thinking and consideration required when I put together next years teams. I did notice though that you didn't deny you were going to smack my ass hard as punishment....

Oh my God not again ! I don't believe it- but now you are calling me a perennial offender @YoungWillz Should I be worried that your anger will evolve into punishment? Am I now due to have my sexy ass smacked hard??!! Don't assume I would regard that as a punishment

I've got a very strong feeling and sense that 2021 is going to be just as much a watershed, landmark end of an era kind of year as we embark further into the 2020s. I think an unusually high number of big and significant names will finally pass away in 2021. Perhaps even more so than in 2020.A year we can all see as being a big and unusually significant year for celebrity deaths with icons, legends and big names like Vera Lynn, Barbara Windsor, Kirk Douglas, Sean Connery, Stirling Moss, Olivia de Havilland, Nobby Stiles, Diego Maradona, Jack Charlton and Ruth Bader Ginsburg dying. Anybody get the feeling that 2021 in terms of not just official deathlist but wider deadpooling of famous people is going to be another unusually momentous end of an era type of year? Yes I know many will be sceptical despite the enema 'succeeding' in terms of this years famous deaths and will not keep the faith but indulge an irrational fetish for clear minded analysis and faithlessness in 2021 despite a proven track record but I really feel my prediction and sense of the year ahead is just as accurate for the year ahead as it was for the past year. I think doubters and sceptics will be confounded so please keep the faith and an open mind with regards to the enema!

I thought it was way over time that Coronation Street legend Julie Goodyear who played soaps ultimate brassy barmaid and feisty pub landlady Bet Lynch was given her own thread .Bet is synonymous with Britain's longest running TV soap in its heyday and has become one of the shows most well known and widely recognised characters despite having never appeared for years .She occupies a very unique place in soap history whether you are personally a fan or not. The fact she is a heavy smoker of decades and is iner seventies and visibly struggled in one of her more recent media appearances and had to be carried onto the set of a TV gameshow makes it timely and apt in my opinion that she has her own thread in place. She is not just any old run of the mill soap star she is an iconic Soap Queen. https://goo.gl/images/JMRPUQ PS I seem to have lost my knack of posting photos can anyone kindly please oblige or advise ?Thank you.

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Not another addition to the list of the missing courtesy of yours truly!!

Former EastEnders actor Michael Greco has become a father to a son. https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/eastenders-legend-michael-greco-welcomes-32959756 https://x.com/OK_Magazine/status/1798028645141033373?t=L-P3uTx9O5b90F_YPjgusQ&s=19

Thought it would be a good thing to have as a counterbalance to all the discussion on deaths and ill health to have a thread dedicated to the reporting of births of new life to celebrities and famous people https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/12067247/lauren-pope-gives-birth-baby-girl/ We start of with the birth of a baby girl called Raine to ex TOWIE reality tv star Lauren Pope.

Comedienne Aisling Bea has revealed she is pregnant with her first child https://x.com/OK_Magazine/status/1797707489518981593?t=pfmDOVqZcWXx8DCw_yxBDQ&s=19 https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-13490285/Aisling-Bea-pregnant-child-debuting-bump.html

Britney?

Being internationally known is not an essential part of the criteria of this thread and never was but I echo what others have said like @TQR - patience is needed. Multiple clusters or clusterfucks of big name deaths are still possible, there is plenty of time.

I too have found sitting on the toilet to be very therapeutic at times- some of my DDP picks were confirmed whilst sitting on the toilet!

Deadly farts are coming keep the faith!!

Shirley Conran, Roger Corman, Gudrun Ure, Bernard Hill, Ian Gelder, John Savident, Alice Munro , Terry Medwin, Frank Field, Duane Eddy

Yes. May will be significant in regard to the topic of the thread.

Artist Damien Hirst, 58, has become a father for the 4th time - his first child with his girlfriend Sophie. https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/27811927/damien-hirst-girlfriend-sophie-birth-baby/

Internationally famous golfer Rory McIIroy has filed for divorce. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/golf/article-13417645/Rory-McIlroy-files-divorce-wife-Erica-PGA-Championship.html

British reality television star Camilla Thurlow, who found fame in Love Island, has given birth to her third child. Her husband and father of her three children is fellow former Love Island star Jamie Jewitt . https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/breaking-itv-love-island-star-32783680

British television presenter Ant McPartlin has become a father for the first time. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-13417345/Ant-McPartlin-baby-wife-Anne-Marie-corbett-son.html

I can sense you dreaming up an awful sadistic punishment for me Will!

Justin Biebers wife Hailey is pregnant it has been revealed. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-13401657/Hailey-Bieber-PREGNANT-Model-expecting-baby-Justin-Bieber.html

Arrrgh within a matter of days I have sinned again @YoungWillz !! Edgar Lansbury is a previous DDP pick of mine and I don't believe he has been picked by anyone else.

And just included in my latest Windy city team . Perhaps just Perhaps I might be on the money this time....

Here is my team revealed for this year 1. Jacqueline White 3. Bryan Organ 3. Rosemary Harris 4. Freddie Foreman 5. John Howard (fmr australian pm) 6. Barbara Taylor Bradford 7. Joe Haines 8. Shirley Porter 9. Elspeth Ballantyne 10. Teodoro Obiang Nguema (president of Equatorial Guinea) 11. Zandra Rhodes 12. Patti Labelle 13. Clarence Thomas 14. Grace Slick 15. Diane Ladd 16. George Lazenby 17. Peter Kilfoyle 18. Diane Downs 19. Kelvin MacKenzie 20. Menzies Campbell 21. Norma Major