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https://www.datalounge.com/thread/18133926-24-hour-media-blackout-in-uk-re-prominent-death-Actually this rumour is gaining ground online as talk about a UK media blackout for 24 hours on a high profile death swirls and there's speculation that if true it's the big one. Rumour seems to have been given legs by a DJ in Ireland Hope it's not true Simon Cowell is...dead? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. I mean: YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASSSSSSSS. IF it's true there's a government ordered media blackout and it isn't a wild Internet theory then it's either going to be a prominent member of the royal family, A serving member of the cabinet or an ex PM IE Tony Blair or a notorious criminal like Ian Brady where for public order reasons they don't want to realise the news straight away. I doubt it's Simon Cowell lol! Media blackouts are issued all the time in the United Kingdom, it's why a lot of news articles are posted in the 00.00am to 02.00am period and have clearly been written the day before. I really hope the queen hasn't carked it, we'll have to cancel the New Years football matches. But famous deaths in the UK don't tend to be announced after midnight as a rule. I think you might be confusing media embargoes IE about someone leaving a TV soap or being cast in a show etc with media blackouts which are quite different especially if done by government by d notice

https://www.datalounge.com/thread/18133926-24-hour-media-blackout-in-uk-re-prominent-death-Actually this rumour is gaining ground online as talk about a UK media blackout for 24 hours on a high profile death swirls and there's speculation that if true it's the big one. Rumour seems to have been given legs by a DJ in Ireland Hope it's not true Could be a Beatle...Possibly -A lot depends on if it's a government mandated d notice news blackout or just a blackout at family's request? But I wouldn't have thought the latter one was likely to hold as someone would want to be the first to break the exclusive news and I can't see the government using a d notice for a famous pop musicians death? Either that or I didn't catch your joke straight away Beatle being a pun on my phrase give legs lol!

https://www.datalounge.com/thread/18133926-24-hour-media-blackout-in-uk-re-prominent-death-Actually this rumour is gaining ground online as talk about a UK media blackout for 24 hours on a high profile death swirls and there's speculation that if true it's the big one. Rumour seems to have been given legs by a DJ in Ireland Hope it's not true And we're meant to believe some random on twitter with a couple of hundred followers, this is shameless self-publicity. The queens death would be blacked out until the morning after under traditional protocol if I remember correctly - but the idea that this bloke would know seems nutty. Although if someone could pinpoint the queens last photo op before she took ill it might help us determine whether she was likely to go anywhere. Show me where I said your meant to do anything? I'm just sharing the fact a rumour has taken hold and I'm letting people speculate, ponder, consider and make up their own mind. I havent decided myself How credible I find the claim to be.

https://www.datalounge.com/thread/18133926-24-hour-media-blackout-in-uk-re-prominent-death-Actually this rumour is gaining ground online as talk about a UK media blackout for 24 hours on a high profile death swirls and there's speculation that if true it's the big one. Rumour seems to have been given legs by a DJ in Ireland Hope it's not true Simon Cowell is...dead? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. I mean: YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASSSSSSSS. IF it's true there's a government ordered media blackout and it isn't a wild Internet theory then it's either going to be a prominent member of the royal family, A serving member of the cabinet or an ex PM IE Tony Blair or a notorious criminal like Ian Brady where for public order reasons they don't want to realise the news straight away. I doubt it's Simon Cowell lol!

https://www.datalounge.com/thread/18133926-24-hour-media-blackout-in-uk-re-prominent-death- Actually this rumour is gaining ground online as talk about a UK media blackout for 24 hours on a high profile death swirls and there's speculation that if true it's the big one. Rumour seems to have been given legs by a DJ in Ireland Hope it's not true

I get what your saying because I love to read obituaries in the various broadsheets or to look down the deaths in year whatever list on Wikipedia.Why? Because you can learn so much about life, culture, people, history -just a wide range of lots and lots of topics. Especially if you make yourself read the obituary or information on somebody who you hadn't really heard of rather than just reading about the famous or notable people you like and are interested in. Often on Wikipedia looking through the profiles of the recently deceased has been a way of leapfrogging onto other new subjects and spheres I know little about. It can be a real exercise in broadening the mind. I like reading obituaries etc basically not because I'm morbid and love the subject of death but actually because I love and I'm interested in life and people. It's the life affirming aspect of it that draws me in. Not sure If I've articulated that as best I could but I think most of us on here are like that and on that spectrum rather than being just morbid souls interested in people dying!

I suspect that's how it will end up playing out. However I also feel the same but obviously to a lesser extent about the Queen's ex brother in law former hubby of Princess Margaret -Lord Snowden. He's 86 and doesn't seem to be great condition when you research it. I think he's an obvious contender especially given how famous he used to be in the 1960s and 70s and would be a real "shame"deathlist wise if he was absent and died too. Although obviously we have to draw the line somewhere as we don't want the deathlist to become over royal!

Thank you mate Cheers.

So forum veterans -Was the "Who will be the 12th death of 2016" thread the quickest /briefest ever of these list name thread's to have existed? Less than 24 hours.

Likely returnees: Dick Van Dyke, Charles Aznavour, Mugabe, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lewis Better returnees: Queen, Sean Connery, Hosni Mubarak, Helmut Kohl, Ian Brady Other potential returnees: Doris Day, Valerie Harper, Nigel Lawson, Pierre Cardin, Angela Lansbury, Frank Bough Recently in news for frailty/ill health: Sidney Poitier, Former Pope Benedict XVI, Tony Booth, Ian St John, Joanne Woodward, Mario Soares, Terry Jones, Akihito, Estelle Parsons, Desmond Carrington, Carrie Fisher Really Old: Ennio Morricone, Glynis Johns, Brian Cant, Mel Brooks, Gorbachev, Honor Blackman, David Attenborough, Mikis Theodorakis, Roger Moore, Ken Dodd, Patricia Routledge *Dead Certs: Leah Bracknell, King Michael, Gord Downie, Colin Meads, Peter Skellern, Sara Coward Random Ill Wrestler: Jimmy Snuka Off the top of my head, but within that group of folk you'll probably find a good 10-15 of them. *I don't expect this lot on the list, however, one or two (tops) might sneak on and surprise us. That's a pretty good mix of names although I'm not too sure about Dick Van Dyke who has just signed up for a new film or Doris Day because I'm a big fan of hers and want her to do an Olivia please IE reach 100! Alternative Hollywood names I'd throw into the mix are Joan Plowright and Robert Duvall

Would just like to draw to the committee's attention as they will be making their decisions very soon that Bullseye presenter Jim Bowen has had three strokes in five years. Also if their wanting to keep a good assortment /variety of people on the list and are maybe "wanting" an author now that sadly Richard Adams has died then for your consideration.... Mary Higgins Clarke, Joan Didion, Wilbur Smith.

Bruce Forsyth for me

No worries mate -I will try to remember to do a list in April and hope I don't have a senior moment or two and forget!

Awe I'd have quite liked to join this game too next month as I assumed it was starting afresh on the 1St January as per the Opening post.

George Michael has died according to SKY NEWS

I can tell that GC Reptile is quite a handsome chappy underneath the colourful artistry!

Good suggestion

Many Thanks 👍

As there'll probably only be about 15 entrants that's highly likely. Aye Which puts the challenge facing the DDP organizers into some perspective, eh? I take it you mean Deathlist not DDP? Anyway I will be very interested to see next years deathlist. I've a feeling there will be multiple British royals on it and fair amount of "new blood" injected with an eye for the long term as many long termers mainstays on the list finally inevitably depart. I've a feeling though that Olivia and Kirk will not both be hits in the same year. Whilst both will stay on the list I'm sure I don't think both will die. My money's on Olivia living another year. Do we know how many people are on the "committee"?

Jim Bowen of Bullseye fame. Had some very poor health in recent years.

Well Telegraph obituaries at least has a twitter account not sure about FT. Surely if it's on the twitter account it's a given its on the main websites obituary page for the Telegraph.

I don't want to contemplate the Queen not living as long as her Mother if not a bit longer! There's been too much upheaval in this country recently and imminently and I welcome the stable element of her being there even though I'm not a natural royalist.

Others worth considering for a "punt" include Yoko Ono, Honor Blackman, Kim Novak, Christine Keeler(profumo scandal)and Jane Fonda. Wasn't Yoko quite ill at one point in recent years?

I'm delighted that I haven't come last! and of course there's still time for more late hits!

Given that Zsa Zsa Gabor has been such a mainstay of this forum for so long, indeed is a forum legend who will leave a gap that many are pondering how it could be filled or rather by whom -here is a list of famous women who may go someway towards being the answer to that question. Although of course no woman can replace Zsa Zsa she was utterly unique there are some women worthy of consideration as deathlist looks to the future and a new era. Liza Minnelli Imelda Marcos Joan Collins Maggie Smith Barbara Bush Barbara Walters Barbara Windsor Julie Goodyear Angie Dickinson Shirley Bassey Queen Sonja of Norway Ethel Kennedy Jean Kennedy (last of the Kennedy Dynasty siblings) Clarissa Eden The Duchess of Kent Danielle Darrieux Bridget Bardot Sophia Loren Marge Champion Rhonda Fleming Peggy Cummins Jane Withers Ann Blyth Jane Powell Arlene Dahl Raquel Welch Carol Channing Carol Burnett Some are included because of the state of their health rumoured or otherwise, some virtue of their age and some because it would be a damned shame if they weren't on the list when they died and would be a real miss for the Deathlist /pools. All of them I think especially Joan Collins and Liza are capable of generating much enjoyable discussion, interest, speculation and entertainment and helping to fill the impending Zsa Zsa void as well as creating a new infusion of worthy names as we inevitably start to lose a fair few of the long timers on the list /s. Just some food for thought!