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Weird because the BBC Breakfast Twitter account has tweeted about but still diddly squat on BBC News site.

If only he'd have waited till Saturday. Given me more to celebrate.

April 23rd

Pope Francis in hospital with respiratory infection.

Apart from Palin. I'd say he is by far the healthiest and probably the most active one (outside of Twitter). Gilliam and Cleese have both been on the edge for a while and I don't think Cleese's Twitter/Political antics will have help his blood pressure and Idle has been looking frailer and frailer every time I've seen him.

Considering my pick has been stolen literal seconds before replying to the topic myself. I'll have to give Galina Brok-Beltsova a shot.

Thought that was Harold Holt

Second cast member from Flash Gordon to die this month

What the book says "I also remember a rather odd but likeable character called Bill Burridge who was made us as an alien with metallic greasepaint. This got into his bloodstream via a small cut and he later had some sort of brain seizure. He never worked again, and ended up in a home. As far as I know he never had any compensation from the BBC, but he was the kind of man who never complained or stood up for his rights" Based on that I wouldn't be surprised if the BBC tried to cover it up as they basically killed him.

No need to apologise, I hadn't come across that story from Frontier in Space. It does seem quite likely that he was the man who died in 1975, you don't get many Burridges and the timeline of events lines up almost perfectly.

Doctor Who actor Huw Rees who played the older version of Tim Latimer in The Family of Blood and a 'Killer OAP' in Amy's Choice and was also a Lib-Dem councillor for his home town of Sketty, Swansea passed away November 24th 2022.

Was watching Fury from the Deep and fell back down the Bill Burridge rabbit hole. Burridge (IMDb) plays the character of Mr Quill in the 1968 Doctor Who serial but his credits aren't limited to just that. Work has been done before on other websites to try and find out what happened to him, but he's seemingly never been mentioned here. What is known (or not known) The BBC has apparently been previously contacted about him and he has apparently died but no date was given (however this statement hasn't been proven). Based on this there's speculation that he died in 1975 as someone with the same name died that year and his last TV credit was 1973, but again there isn't proof of this being him. Doctor Who Magazine doesn't seem to have reported his death at any point. His date of birth is sadly not know, making search efforts harder. Can anyone here find any thing concrete on this enigma of a man. This has been bugging me for a while and any help would be greatly welcome.

Depends how you define British because technically the island of Ireland is part of the British Isles but yeah they probably shouldn't be on there considering it implies United Kingdom British not British Isles British. Also the name of the team is Great Britons which doesn't include Northern Ireland let alone The Republic of.

I'd like my buddy Clint Hill again please.

Was also in Star Wars's Andor a few months back.

She's always looked like that though, plus she has a thin face giving her a frailer appearance.

I agree in the group shot she looked pretty worn out, but then in the individual pictures of her she looked the same as normal

Most of the look younger than they are, I'd probably say that Shelia Hancock looks the worst of the the group

Yep and I think it's Sam Jones in the back

Recent photograph of him at London Film and Comic Con.

If he does have a terminal disease the conspiracy theories are really gonna get out of hand.

Maximilien Robespierre would be the reason for the introduction of the "no killing your picks" rule. I can also picture a thread in 1969 betting on whether or not the 3 Apollo 11 astronauts would make it there and back safely.

Looks like this might be another Pele-like month long wait.

Archaeologist Alexander Avdonin who discovered the burial-site of the Romanov family in 1979 is still alive. Born in 1932, he will be turning 92 in 2024 if he makes it.

Disgraced film producer Harvey Weinstein gets 16 more years in prison.