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American judge and television personality Judy Sheindlin better known as Judge Judy celebrates her 80th birthday today. English poet, novelist ,playwright and gay rights activist Maureen Duffy celebrates her 89th birthday today.

Mordaunt has a strong chance in my opinion especially now Graham Brady has announced party members will have a vote.

Sam Coates on SKY NEWS reporting Jeremy Hunt won't stand.

Statement coming from Downing Street at 1.30. Looks like it's happening.

Statement in Downing Street at 1.30!!

Yes I noticed that they were out of touch with many Daily Mail readers on that budget with many angry tories in the comments section under the online articles. The paper didn't read the room.

David Davis says the tories are now facing an existential threat. SKY NEWS correspondent saying he has been told that a shell shocked Deputy Prime minister Therese Coffey now realises the seriousness of the situation and is ready to tell Liz Truss that the game is up and she should resign.

https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/63329262 Qualifying Obituary for Scottish footballer Jimmy Millar.

I mean interesting as in poetic justice and apt given it would require tory newspapers who manically attacked Mordaunt having to cheerlead her at the next election.

Party Chairman Jake Berry just arrived at 10 Downing Street.

Penny Mordaunt would be an interesting choice. She would have made it to the final ballot and almost certainly won the contest if it wasn't for dirty tricks by the Truss camp and tory press.

I am still astonished that a public figure never mind the Health Secretary admitted to giving away antibiotics to her family and friends. Something that is both stupid and illegal.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11335257/Even-Cabinet-loyalists-warn-Liz-Truss-recover-PM.html Liz Trusses previous biggest cheerleader in the media the Daily Mail calling it the endgame for Truss. Looks like I'm going to be glued to the news instead of sleeping of my night out on the town.

Nadine Dorries tweets that only Boris Johnson should be allowed to replace Liz Truss.

Very impressive. Presumably that means she directed her onscreen mother Wendy Richard. Soap actors directing episodes of the same show they starred in during or after their time on the show is rather rare. I recall stars of US soap Dallas Larry Hagman, Patrick Duffy, Linda Gray and Steve Kanaly all directed episodes of the show and Susan Howard wrote a few episodes. I know australian actor Ian Smith worked behind the scenes on Prisoner Cell Block H, a show he starred in, but as a producer and script editor not director Still must be interesting to experience working on the same show both in front of and behind the camera/production and seeing the creative process from both sides.

On this day in 1994 legendary American actor Burt Lancaster , a huge star in the 1950s during the golden age of Hollywood, died aged 80. He starred opposite or alongside numerous big female lead stars during his career including, Ava Gardner, Barbara Stanwyck, Joan Fontaine, Virginia Mayo, Lizabeth Scott, Shirley Booth, Gina Lollobrigida, Audrey Hepburn, Shelley Winters and Deborah Kerr. His first film was in 1946 and a slice of film noir in The Killers. Other films include Desert Fury(1947), Vengeance Valley (1951), From here to eternity (1953)-for which he was nominated by the academy in the best actor category, Sweet smell of success (1957) with Tony Curtis, epic legal war drama Judgement at Nuremberg- a film which garnered a huge amount of critical acclaim and awards, Birdman of Alcatraz (1962) which earned him another Oscar nomination, Trapeze (1956), The Leopard (1963) with Alain Delon, Atlantic City (1980) a film that earned him another oscar nomination and co-starred Susan Sarandon. Burt did win a best actor Oscar for 1960 drama Elmer Gantry playing a bit of a travelling salesman con artist. His last movie was a small role in Kevin Costners baseball drama Field of Dreams in 1989. In his personal life he had five children, all to his second wife Norma a stenographer who he met when she substituted for an ill actress in a USO production for US troops in Italy. There are claims and rumours of affairs in biographies and interviews including claims by family members that he was bisexual and had numerous relationships with men and women. Some of his friends claimed he had an affair with From here to eternity costar Deborah Kerr but she denied this only confirming that there was a spark between them but it was never acted upon. Actresses Shelley Winters and Joan Blondell are other reported affairs. He died after years of ill health and his third heart attack.

On this day five years ago in 2017 australian actress Judith McGrath died aged 70. She was a bit of a veteran of long running aussie television soaps most notably starring in All Saints , A Country Practice and most famously Prisoner Cell Block H as cynical, dry witted prison officer and latterly deputy governor Colleen Powell- nicknamed Po-face by the inmates. Probably one of the more nuanced of the prison staff characters in the show. Somewhere in between the more saintly Officer Meg Morris and the sadistic corrupt Officer Joan Ferguson.

Former British actress Sue Tully celebrates her 55th birthday today. She is best known for starring in BBC school drama series Grange Hill and being an original cast member of EastEnders playing Michelle Fowler . She quit EastEnders in 1995 and no longer acts. Liverpool football clubs all time leading goal scorer welsh footballer Ian Rush turns 61 today.

On this day in 2019 Scottish journalist Deborah Orr died of cancer aged 57. She previously had been a columnist at various times for The Guardian and The Independent newspapers in the UK.

Irish English actor and current DeathList alumni Michael Gambon celebrates his 82nd birthday today. British wrestler Peter Thornley, better known by his stage name Kendo Nagasaki, celebrates turning 81 today.

The reversal of fortune is quite astounding. I felt after the big tory victory in 2019 that they had at least another decade in power.I don't think I have ever known such a dramatic and quick turnabout of political fortune.

On this day in 1984 american model and up and coming actor Jon -Erik Hexum died aged 26 on the 20th Century Fox lot whilst filming tv series Cover Up. His character was involved in a scene that required them to load cartridges into a 44 Magnum handgun. The scene was filmed but was not to the liking and exact specifications of the director in terms of the primary/master shot so it was requested to be filmed again. There was a delay on set snd a bored, impatient and restless Hexum decided to play around with the gun to lighten the atmosphere on set He unloaded all of the blànks bar one before he started messing around 'playing Russian roulette ' with the gun , putting it to his temple and pulling the trigger. Totally unaware that shooting a blank at such close proximity was potentially very damaging and dangerous .The plastic wadding covering the blank was propelled with such force that the blast caused a small amount of blunt force trauma to his skull that caused a massive brain haemorrhage. Six days later his life support was switched off but not before his mother gave permission for his heart ,kidneys and cornea to be donated to transplant patients. Other shows part of his sadly short acting credits include Sci fi series Voyagers!(1982/1983), made for TV movie The Making of a male model which also starred Joan Collins, 1984 film The Bear, a biopic of head football coach at the University of Alabama played by Gary Busey and US Primetime tv soap Hotel.

American actor Zac Efron celebrates his 35th birthday today. British childrens television presenter Timmy Mallett, particularly famous in the 1980s and known for his colourful and eccentric outfits, celebrates his 67th birthday today.

On this day in 2007 american comic entertainer, talk show host and actor Joey Bishop died aged 89. He starred in the well known 1960s film Oceans 11 and was part of Frank Sinatras famous social drinking and partying group The rat pack along with Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jnr.

So the last two Official DeathList 'hits' Loretta Lynn and Angela Lansbury were on consecutive Tuesdays. Will tommorrow continue this trend and make it three hits in three consecutive Tuesdays? Maybe even a pattern of a 'hit' every Tuesday until the end of the year... anything is possible!