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Seeeeventh Heeeeeaven. RIP, what a funny warm chap he was.

I remember Maria Charles mainly for two roles - her turn in Bar Mitzvah Boy which I think nearly everyone watched and as Windsor Davies' cleaner in Never The Twain. She never made it on to any of my teams as (i) she could easily have died off radar yonks ago and (ii) her chances of being overlooked for a QO (possible still) - been bitten there before. I know, wrong of me probably on both counts, but I do like to know they are still alive when I'm picking them.

Report of the death of prolific US playwright, Robert Patrick, aged 85: Recognised as a pioneer of openly gay themes in theatre, probably best known for Kennedy's Children (which opened in The Kings Head pub theatre in Islington) and Blue Is For Boys, even winning a Best World Playwrighting award from the Glasgow Citizens' Theatre! He has written for TV also as well as poetry and novels. IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0665914/ RIP.

Wait. Sunak has arranged the evacuation of all diplomatic staff and their families from Sudan. Phew, that should be a great relief to all the British nationals left in Sudan who don't even have access to consular/embassy support at all. He's abandoned them.

Yes, I'm shoehorning in here, sorry. Of interest probably only to charon, ha, but Paddy Prendergast has died: https://westernpeople.ie/2021/09/26/death-announced-of-mayos-1951-all-ireland-hero/ Padraig Carney died in 2019. Sub Mick Loftus is still alive according to the article Shoehorning again: Mick Loftus has died. https://www.independent.ie/sport/gaelic-games/dr-mick-loftus-former-gaa-president-and-last-surviving-member-of-mayos-1951-all-ireland-winning-panel-dies-aged-93-42444572.html

A mere 5 years later....I haven't looked at the spoiler.

Barry Humphries never made it to 90, dying soon after he hit 89.

Barry Humphries becomes the second toppler from Shock Treatment this year: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-65328507

Mike Coulman, who played for both codes at the highest level, reportedly dead aged 78:

The simplest of comedy:

There will now only be one Less Patterson. Sad news, the only living great drag act of my youth is now Stanley Baxter. Impossible to believe he has gone, a clever man who took generation after generation under his spell with, what can only be described as, limited schtick - but never lost the ability to say something shocking without ever crossing the line of taste. A sad loss, compensated by the points I'll get for my theme team joker. Adieu, Barry, rest well - you earned it.

Rambahadur Limbu, Victoria Cross Gurkha, reportedly dead: Last picked for the DDP in 2017 afaik @Death Impends: http://www.derbydeadpool.co.uk/deadpool2017/celebs_L.html#limbur Also posted here: https://www.gwt.org.uk/news/captain-rambahadur-limbu-vc-mvo-1939-2023/

Losing her hair again, resigned to her "one-way ticket" and making funeral plans: https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/linda-nolan-neil-sedaka-song-29777462 Don't worry Linda, you're on my team. That always helps survival chances. (Sadly though, it might not, given the story of this year).

Sue Vanner, the Log Cabin girl from The Spy Who Loved Me has initiated divorce proceedings against estranged hubby Warren Todd: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-12001087/Bond-girl-Sue-Vanner-files-divorce-Lisa-Vanderpumps-stepson-Warren-Todd.html In passing, it should be noted she is a cancer survivor.

Death Notice for Shane Gough, 5th Viscount Gough, freemason and peer: http://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/deaths/263731/gough Reproduced for the benefit yada yada: GOUGH Shane Hugh Maryon, 5th Viscount, following a short illness bravely borne died peacefully on 14th April 2023 aged 81. Service details including livestream via www.johnfraserandson.com/family-notices Memorial service to follow in London.

Report of the death of Scottish actor, writer, theatre director and acting tutor Andrew Neil: Various soap appearances in Brookside, Casualty, Holby City and Doctors. Also turned up in Taggart, Rebus and Silent Witness. If you haven't caught his turn as dementia patient Jonathan Meldrick in Crying With Laughter, do.

Report of the death of 70s era Bury player Alan Woolfall: Later played for Port Vale.

Lest we forget... Raab was a do nothing interim leader while Johnson allegedly laid in intensive care, frightened to take any big decisions for fear of angering the blonde blob, contributing to delays in implementing COVID preventative measures. Raab was the Foreign Secretary who sat on his arse on holiday while Afghanistan fell, for which he was sacked. He responds to allegations of bullying just as you would expect from a bully - everyone else is wrong and he is right. Now we expect yet another reshuffle among this bunch of self-entitled millionaires, using the levers of power to line their own pockets or the pockets of their wives or local pub landlords. Could they get any worse than Major's sleaze ridden administration?

Maybe he's just Gladioli in. (It's a very Scottish attempt at black humour). I've my headline all prepared for consideration. Well, he is my Theme Team Joker on the Comedy team.

Bob Nadkarni further report: https://diariodorio-com.translate.goog/morre-no-rio-o-cineasta-bob-nadkarni-fundador-do-the-maze/?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp

Found a reliable source. Ralph Humphrey himself confirms he is ALIVE, though in hospice care:

Well known sports commentator and TV presenter Heinz Florian Oertel reportedly dead aged 95: https://www-bild-de.translate.goog/regional/leipzig/leipzig-news/heinz-florian-oertel-ddr-sportreporter-legende-stirbt-im-alter-von-95-jahren-82753016.bild.html?_x_tr_sl=de&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc&_x_tr_hist=true

Not a good time for IIIs. Report of the death of Otis Redding III (son of the famous Otis Redding) aged 59: https://www.soultracks.com/story-otis-redding-iii-dies As part of The Reddings, he had a couple of minor hits on the Billboard Charts in the early 1980s, unsurprisingly their cover of Dock Of The Bay charting highest at #55 in June 1982 (not a bad version actually):

John Baraldi, American who turned up in Scotland in the mid to late 1970s to become a director of both the Glasgow Youth Theatre and Cumbernauld Youth Theatre which turned out a generation of Scottish actors who turned up in various projects starting with the Bill Forsyth films That Sinking Feeling and Gregory's Girl, reportedly dead:

Bob Nadkarni, British ex-pat who set up The Maze jazz club in Rio de Janeiro, being reported dead: Lovely interview with the BBC here from 2016: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-latin-america-37136431