Gooseberry Crumble

And the Hartlepool team that picked her this year aka yours truly!

A'hit' for me with Cissy Houston . That moves Eva Marie Saint into my list from the subs and my new sub is Arthur Scargill please.

I came across a news article tonight about Al Pacino losing his balance and falling over on the red carpet at the BAFTA film awards in London tonight. Not a serious fall but possibly a sign or pointer he is ailing. I went to post it on an Al Pacino thread to find to my surprise that there is not one! So I decided to start one especially as he both getting on in age and undoubtedly iconic in popular culture and film history. https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/10876393/bafta-al-pacino-falls-over/

Yes I think it's going to get busy infact I sense an official hit is pretty imminent is what my gut is telling me.

Breaks down in tears at the Cheltenham literature festival when asked about her recently deceased friends Maggie Smith and Barbara Leigh Hunt. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13928259/Judi-Dench-tears-Maggie-Smith-Cheltenham-Literature-festival-one-month-losing-beloved-stage-companion-Barbara-Leigh-Hunt.html

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.

Excellent find. Good detective work.

Thanks for staying strong and keeping the faith! I still think it's possible the grand total could reach double figures. There are so many names who seem teetering on the brink and a flury of activity in the remaining three months could deliver.

Yes post amended above. Google search listed it as from 3 days ago but the actual article is as you say from 2020. I was googling some of the official deathlist names in order to look for crumbs of comfort that there could be progress before the end of the year given the activity and discussion in some other threads but alas it backfired!

Delete as homeless article listed as recent but seems regurgitated or amended from 2020. Apologies!

I keep trying to tell my family and close friends that I'm pretty much the fount of all knowledge and wisdom but they ain't having it.. infact they are quite insistent in the most strong terms that it isn't true . Can you believe that? ! Jealousy is a very ugly trait..

I like your thinking!

A very worthy pick

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirley_Bassey Was quite surprised that one of the most iconic and talented British female singers indeed musical legends of the past fifty years Shirley Bassey didn't have her own thread. As an internationally famous superstar she certainly deserves one especially as she turned 80 in early January. It would be a bit of a forum travesty if we were caught unawares and she passed away without a thread already established imo! She's also quite a private person so she could well have serious health issues that we are unaware of and thus she isn't really on our radar in terms of the deathlist or predictions. A relatively recent picture of the grand Dame and Diva!

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-13894919/princess-beatrice-pregnant-second-child-edoardo-mapelli-mozzi.html I do believe I did finally giving me my first hit in this pool!

TV presenter and GMB weatherman Alex Beresford is to become a father again https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/tv/itv-good-morning-britain-star-30033602 https://x.com/digitalspy/status/1840694197193453761?t=F1X22kt6p2gvsitVNdu3Yg&s=19

https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/showbiz-news/bbc-eastenders-lacey-turner-supported-30039589 EastEnders actress Lacey Turner has announced she is pregnant with her third child https://x.com/whatsn2day/status/1840795040039444784?t=_8Xuh1OL9G3IW3fTJ_RlzQ&s=19

I really hope this changes before the end of the competition!

https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/showbiz-news/bbc-eastenders-lacey-turner-supported-30039589 EastEnders actress Lacey Turner is pregnant with third child. Not sure if anybody picked her in this pool?

Awe really sad to hear this. She was a remarkable lady and phenomenonal talent.

American reality tv star Eboni K Williams of Real housewives of New York City fame, has given birth to her first child at the age of 41. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-13883795/rhony-eboni-k-williams-child-baby-girl-ivf.html https://x.com/Bossip/status/1838348252824916181?t=hLSoA2joHdoqTThtBlmOLw&s=19

Pending a qualifying obituary, which I feel is inevitable , diplomat Nicholas A Veliates is a ' hit' for my Gooseberry Crumble DDP team after dying aged 95- my first one of the year out of an orgy of list of the Missed picks! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_A._Veliotes Oh gosh just realised he died in May so perhaps a qualifying obituary is more a wing and a prayer rather than inevitable!!

My first hit of the year!! On my Gooseberry Crumble DDP team. Many thanks at least I've avoided the shame of zero 'hits' out of 60 names!

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-13869113/Queen-Margrethe-hospitalised.html Confirmed

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-13805037/Princess-Sofia-Sweden-pregnant-Prince-Carl-Philips-wife-expecting-couples-fourth-child-palace-announces-reveals-baby-due.html Prince Carl Philip and Princess Sofia of Sweden are expecting their fourth child together. https://x.com/CoutureRoyals/status/1830609844572983701?t=65lw3PYH8e4vyQbmH5oX-Q&s=19