YoungWillz

I have no idea how this pool works or what it is about, but here's a story of interest maybe? https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11534613/Billie-Lourd-welcomes-second-child-husband-Austen-Rydell.html

BBC just announced Freddie Flintoff off to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. Story here: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11535043/Top-Gear-host-Freddie-Flintoff-airlifted-hospital-horror-car-crash-filming.html

I have, to the best of my ability, updated the Pointless Celebrities posts from 2015. I mean, I could look into anything from Series 9 onwards, tbh I rarely watch Pointless now as I'm never sure whether there is a new episode or interminable repeats of old ones.

Adam Afriyie declared bankrupt. Will not be standing at the next election. Cunt.

No space on my main team for him next year and doesn't qualify for my TOTP team for years now. I'll therefore be unable to save him by picking him for my teams. Long live Ozzy.

Oops. I'm just up and reading is bad for me these days. Also I'm guessing in this wintry weather Reading is a bad place to get to...

I'll be astonished if Joyce Reynolds makes any lists next year seeing as how she's dead.

We are left with Charlie Brooker. Maybe. I think there's a void for someone to prick the pomposity of British TV in a proper fashion.

Apparently Stuart Margolin, who played Angel on The Rockford Files, has been reported dead by his stepson on Instagram. Might be true, but nothing concrete as yet.

100 metre freestyle competitor at the 1948 Olympics Ronald Stedman death notice: http://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/deaths/261143/stedman

Quite the dragging out of former stars on Eastenders for Dot's funeral. Michael Cashman ffs...

I think he was always full of himself. Well, I guess you have to in order to make it in the music biz as early as he did. When he did Strictly Come Dancing this year, he was playing the humble, generous type - but to me he was a smarmy smug git who seemed to be saying to himself "I don't really need this, but it will be fun doing it". True, he doesn't need it, but he's an odd character - I wonder if he's had work done or got the botox crazies. Anyway, Brian Harvey - now there's the mad pop star we love.

Christina Most, widow of record producer Mickie Most, being reported dead by Nancy Sinatra.

Even the (Terry Nation approved) Gay Daleks sketches? Bit obvious and childish sure, but one must always stay on top (oo-er) of Sci-Fi references...

Robert Tayman, probably best known for his appearance as Count Mitterhaus in Hammer's Vampire Circus, being reported dead: https://kitleyskrypt.wordpress.com/2022/12/12/robert-tayman-rest-in-peace/ Minor roles in such as The New Avengers, Up Pompeii and an uncredited role as Mario in The Stud.

Still a total shag, popped out to do some tidying up so of course, the Mail has the goss (not the Matt Goss, what the fuck happened to him - Strictly also ran, but odd) anyway: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11529007/Rarely-seen-East-17-icon-Brian-Harvey-clears-house.html Always had a soft spot for him...well, maybe not that soft...

Jimmy Cricket (about due for a call up as well) posted this re Mike Newman:

Victor Lewis-Smith, author and broadcaster known to me for TV Offal, reportedly dead: https://www.thesun.co.uk/tv/20730812/victor-lewis-smith-dead-writer-broadcaster/

For @Ulitzer95 Desert Island Discs 1940s [no survivors] 1950s Petula Clark / b. 1932 Sally Ann Howes / b. 1930 d. 2021 Vera Lynn / b. 1917 d. 2020 Peggy Cummins / b. 1925 d. 2017 Tony Mottram / b. 1920 d. 2016 Edward Allcard / b. 1914 d. 2017 Claire Bloom / b. 1931 Stirling Moss / b. 1929 d. 2020 Leslie Caron / b. 1931 Shirley Abicair / b. 1928 Janette Scott / b. 1938 Tommy Steele / b. 1936 David Attenborough / b. 1926 Beryl Grey / b. 1927 d.2022 Cleo Laine / b. 1927 Harry Belafonte / b. 1927 d. 2023 Elizabeth Seal / b. 1933 June Paul / b. 1934 d. 2020 Chris Barber / b. 1930 d. 2021 Judy Grinham / b. 1939 Sylvia Syms / b. 1934 d. 2023 1960 Marty Wilde / b. 1939 Anne Heywood / b. 1931 Shirley Bassey / b. 1937 Brian Rix / b. 1924 d. 2016 Pat Suzuki / b. 1930 Cliff Richard / b. 1940 Denis Norden / b. 1922 d. 2018 1961 Teddie Beverley / b. 1927 Babs Beverley / b. 1927 d. 2018 Barbara Jefford / b. 1930 d. 2020 Julian Bream / b. 1933 d. 2020 Ann Haydon / b. 1938 Joan Collins / b. 1933 1962 Leslie Phillips / b. 1924 d. 2022 Bruce Forsyth / b. 1928 d. 2017 1963 Juliette Greco / b. 1927 d. 2020 Bernard Cribbins / b. 1928 d. 2022 Millicent Martin / b. 1934 1964 Julie Andrews / b. 1935 Vanessa Redgrave / b. 1937 Robbie Brightwell / b. 1939 d. 2022 Honor Blackman / b. 1925 d. 2020 1965 Frank Ifield / b. 1937 Sheila Hancock / b. 1933 Hayley Mills / b. 1946 Robert F. Marx / b. 1936 d. 2019 Annie Ross / b. 1930 d. 2020 Rita Tushingham / b. 1942 Peter Hall / b. 1930 d. 2017 1966 Sara Leighton / b. 1937 Nina, Baroness van Pallandt / b. 1932 Virginia McKenna / b. 1931 Michael Craig / b. 1929 June Ritchie / b. 1941 Katharine Whitehorn / b. 1928 d. 2021 Arnold Wesker / b. 1932 d. 2016 Stephen Bishop / b. 1940 Chay Blyth / b. 1940 John Ridgway / b. 1938 1967 Gerald Harper / b. 1931 Barry Briggs / b. 1934 Rolf Harris / b. 1930 Fenella Fielding / b. 1927 d. 2018 Roy Hudd / b. 1936 d. 2020 Tom Courtenay / b. 1937 Alan Bennett / b. 1934 Andre Previn / b. 1929 d. 2019 Jacques Loussier / b. 1934 d. 2019 1968 Ann Mallalieu / b. 1945 Desmond Morris / b. 1928 John Williams / b. 1941 John Bird / b. 1936 d. 2022 Susan Hampshire / b. 1937 Marilyn Horne / b. 1934 Margaret Drabble / b. 1939 Trevor Nunn / b. 1940 Janet Baker / b. 1933 Eleanor Bron / b. 1938 Richard Lester / b. 1932 Richard Baker / b. 1925 d. 2018 Des Wilson / b. 1941 Asa Briggs / b. 1921 d. 2016 1969 Heather Harper / b. 1930 d. 2019 Maggie Fitzgibbon / b. 1929 d. 2020 Zena Skinner / b. 1927 d. 2018 Mary Wilson / b. 1916 d. 2018 Nicolai Gedda / b. 1925 d. 2017 Virginia Wade / b. 1945 Antonia Fraser / b. 1932 Rachael Heyhoe / b. 1939 d. 2017 Des O’Connor / b. 1932 d. 2020 Donald Zec / b. 1919 d. 2021 Anthony Grey / b. 1938 Moira Anderson / b. 1938

If I can find it....

Noted. I get my Willie Thornes and Terry Griffithses mixed up lol. I think, given I've now mentioned him, he isn't dead...yet...

Image Of The Fendahl made me (metaphorically) poop my pants. One of the stories that benefits from a broad lead in - it was like watching a Hitchcock thriller and the ending was spectacular for the time. I've watched it only twice since originally on, and still makes me genuinely tremble.

In March of this year (triple checked the dates this time) Gary Mabbutt seems to have undergone carotid artery surgery: https://www.spurs-web.com/spurs-news/tottenham-confirm-club-legend-has-successfully-undergone-artery-surgery/ (thanks to research on that 1987 Tottenham squad). He seems fine - 40 years with type 1 diabetes and a couple of heart surgeries. Not on my death date, will you take him for a candlelit dinner on the DDP?

Chris Boucher being reported dead

Apart from Tottenham Hotspur's FA Cup team (not researched yet), I have 32 names for TOTP 1987. *sigh* So I'll have a minimum of 9 to excise, and that causes me problems to decide who is more unwell imo.