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To be fair, I saw someone jesting on Facebook about a win/win option - Farmyard Masterchef, wherein our Greg cooks for farmyard animals and the like, pulls his faces as he samples the food and gets surrounded by young females every week, but isn't allowed any with only two feet! He stays on telly, the cancel-him crowd see justice being done, an absolute ratings winner, frankly

#metoo

Masterchef is going ahead tonight since the thoughtful BBC have cited its vital role in fulfilling the wishes of contestants etc. Greg Wallace's alleged crimes include possession of an ego way beyond the abilities of his intelligence to sustain it so suicide risk minimal I'd say, even if he is cancelled on a wide scale

Sunday Times front page this morning suggests Elon Musk is preparing to donate $100 million to Reform UK (throgh his X platform to get round rules about foreign investment directly into UK political parties). Point being - obviously - to ensure Reform win the next election. I predict nowt other than if this happens then this here thread will get even livelier!

Ethel Caterham

He made 112 and the package BBC News had pre-prepared on him included him being served a decent portion of fish and chips in his care home All the excuse I need to head out to the chippie over the weekend!

Aye, a timely reminder that the film director turns 85 next year, looks like shit and remains a shoo-in for liberal leaning broadsheet obits

Philip Glass and Godfrey Reggio a few weeks back - well, either that or Simon and Garfunkel's homeless twin brothers!

Was just Googling Beatle related stuff and there's no mention of the death of Pauline Stone, previously Pauline Lennon when she married John's dad (around 36 years her senior). She had two kids with him and remarried after he died in 1976. Likely to get some mention in the press as and when, unless anyone knows of a death link anywhere. She'll be 76 if she's still with us.

Liz Hatton - who famously photographed the Princess of Wales - dead at 17: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clyj0013n1po

The Sunday Express a couple of days back ran a long piece by Nadine Dories suggesting the best hope for a quick Tory comeback was to get Boris back in parliament and back as leader The Express - as I keep mentioning - has lost approximately 90% of its readers in a little over 30 years.

Maybe to a guy keen on watching Trump motorcades?

Alice Brock and Arlo Guthrie

Mention here that Dave Warby (son of the guy who holds the world water speed record) fancies a crack at it. That record has stood since 1978, the last two attempts - in the 80s - proved fatally dangerous to the Americans trying to win it back for their country. Progress reports here, incidentally, yer man Dave is middle aged and not exactly athletic in appearance: https://warbymotorsport.com/record-attempt/ He will, also, pilot the revamped Bluebird craft that killed its previous owner: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp9zlx5j127o

Conceal your mighty stash of MDMA by disguising it as a garden gnome: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy9jr3y8gv5o