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  3. Posted

    5 hours ago, Ulitzer95 said:

    Did Berniece Baker Miracle (wiki), Marilyn Monroe's half-sister die off radar?

    Yes, in 2014 (aged 94–95). Photo there of her grave "Berniece Miracle" with her husband's (Paris Miracle). Other sites online mention her husband by name and its an exact match. Residency sites like Spokeo and Clustrmaps also have no record of her residence beyond the mid-2010s, where she was last recording as living in North Carolina (which neighbours Kentucky) so that too would back up the FindAGrave page, even though the picture itself is strong enough evidence in itself IMO.

    Oh dear. Just shows why you shouldn't trust clickbait "news" sites like this, which claim she's still alive without first hand confirmation.

    Bad news for @John Key who has her in the Centenarian Deadpool this year, and to anyone who may have picked her on the DDP.
     

    Bugger. She was in my Generation Dead Pool, as was Klaus Rainer Rohl who i have just seen died in November without a UK obit. Oh well

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  8. Posted

    1 hour ago, the_engineer said:

    I have a dream a few years ago Jamie Lynn spears died and it was all over the news. Murdered by Britney maybe? They're feuding.

     

    With all the footballers collapsing recently I wonder if one will die? Arguero would've been a massive unlikely death so would've Christian eriksen.

     

    We always seem to lose a big UK comedian every year. Sean lock, Caroline aherne , Sean Hughes etc. I'd say those not ITK Sean locks death was unlikely, but Caroline's was expected sadly.

    Peter Kay or Johnny Vegas maybe?

     

    Well known YouTubers are more popular and we'll known than alot of celebs nowadays and we always lose handful every year , could lose an unlikely one this year.

     

    Good thread btw.

    There has been a lot of speculation about Peter Kay's health so I don't think it would be a huge surprise. I don't think Johnny  Vegas death would be a massive shock either. 

    Sarah Millican has always struck me as someone who won't make old bonds so maybe her. That could just be wishful thinking on my part though.

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  10. Posted

    9 minutes ago, time said:

    Sorry about that, but it goes both ways. I checked back a few years and was surprised he doesn't appear to have ever been picked, then like buses, two at once.

    We have deprived each other of a unique for Sarah Lawson. Sorry.

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  11. Posted

    Here are my three theme teams.

     

    Well Done it you got these at home

    Theme - People who have been on Pointless Celebrities

    1 Michael Fish

    2 Amanda Barrie

    3 Barry Cryer

    4 Bernard Cribbins

    5 Dean Sullivan

    6 Simon Groom

    7 Duncan Norvelle

    8 Bridget Forsyth

    9 Jean Boht

    10 Victor McGuire

    11 Tommy Cannon

    12 Syd Little

    13 Roy Wood

    14 Zandra Rhodes

    15 John Craven

    16 Anna Karen

    17 Derek Martin

    18 Henry Kelly

    19 Linda Nolan

    20 Gwen Taylor

     

    Theme 2 - Protectors, Persuaders and Prisoners in a Suitcase (Deceased)

    Theme  - Actors from ITC Shows

     

    1 John Savident

    2 Ron Pember

    3 Jean Marsh

    4 Christopher Benjamin

    5 Norman Bowler

    6Millicent Martin

    7 William Gaunt

    8 Kenneth Cope

    9 Sylvia Sims

    10 Donald Sutherland

    11 Derren Nesbitt

    12 Gerald Harper

    13 Joss Ackland

    14 Vernon Dobtcheff

    15 Caroline Blakiston

    16 Peter Bowles

    17 Rachel Herbert

    18 James Bolam

    19 Wanda Ventham

    20 Ernst Walder

     

    Theme Team 3

    Lost of the Lost.

    Theme - People involved with the BFI's most wanted lost films.

     

    Bruce Robinson

    Priscilla Morgan

    Lulu

    John Castle

    Ian McKellan

    John Scott

    Angela Pleasence

    Mike Grady

    Denise Coffey

    Hugh Futcher

    Alan Rothwell

    David Kernan

    Gudrun Ure

    Sarah Lawson

    Peter McEnery

    Colin Jeavons

    Michael Deeley

    David Weston

    Judy Huxtable

    Linda Gastoni

     

    I actually started compiling this in the summer. Tony Selby was going to be on it.

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  13. Posted

    This is more of less the list I sent for the crowdsource list. 

    John Savident was a replacement for April Ashley and Francoise

    Hardy for Betty White.

     

    1. Mikhail Gorbachev

    2. Jimmy Carter

    3 Leslie Phillips

    4 Jean Marsh

    5 Pele

    6 Prunella Scales

    7 Monica Vitti

    8 Francoise Hardy

    9 June Brown

    10 Shirley Hughes

    11 Frank Field

    12 Queen Elizabeth I I

    13 Stuart Hall

    14 Douglas Hurd

    15 William Labov

    16 Madhur Jaffrey

    17 Desmond Morris

    18 Jean-Luis Trintagnant

    19 George Alagiah

    20 Sandy Gall

    21 Bill Treacher

    22 Sydney Poitier

    23 John Savident

    24 Gudrun Ure

    25 Marianne Faithfull

    26 Bill Tidy

    27 Lee Grant

    28 Mary Quant

    29 James Whale

    30 Nichelle Nicholls

    31 Linda Nolan

    32 Bill Turnbull

    33 Yoko Ono

    34 Glynis Johns

    35 Olivia Newton John

    36 Jacques Delors

    37 Tippi Hedren

    38 Frankie Valli

    39 Vanessa Redgrave

    40 Vera Miles

    41 Christiane F

    42 Gary Hart

    43 Julian Pettifer

    44 Mike Yarwood

    45 Jane Elliott

    46 Majbritt Morrison

    47 Joe Benton

    48 Pope Benedict XVI

    49 Clive Barker

    50 Harry Belafonte

     

    Edit - Only 11 hits last year but did get one on both the first and last day of the year which pleases me.

     

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  14. Posted

    I dreamt that my eyes had shrunk to the size of apple pips and the only way to cure it was to get a face transplant. I was told I was very lucky because a famous person had just donated their face for me. I awoke from the operation to discover I had been given the face of Jeannette Krankie!

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  15. Posted

    21 hours ago, Doulton said:

    I submitted three teams:  1 is doomed to end with Nil points:  "Poets Passing"   all poets but so many Americans who will not get a Brit Obit

    No. 2 is Bangers and Mash.  It's secret theme is people who are unlikely to be virgins.

    No. 3 is Diet of Worms, a little dip into fantasy land and some very aged venison and pheasant.  I used that Team name years ago and hope that nobody else has taken it up....

     

     

    Seriously, I created these teams to amuse myself and not to win and I wonder if that creates too much work for the DDP Team?  I would like to know if these types of teams feel like frivolous lawsuits to you?

     

     I enter partly to amuse myself and to see how many names I can collect for a particular category and partly out of superstition.  I have entered 3 theme teams this year, 2 are ones I am bringing back and one is a new one.

     

  17. Posted

    35 minutes ago, Ulitzer95 said:

    Another big last minute faller.

    Telegraph breaking the news of the death of model, actress and author April Ashley MBE (wiki), aged 86.

    The second Britain ever to have gender reassignment surgery in 1960 (which subsequently led to her marriage being annulled in the Corbett v. Corbett case of 1969).

    A pick for two teams in the DDP.

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    The joker pick for my Scouse theme team. I think she was in my shadow list last year and would have been again next year, typically she was not this year.

  18. Posted

    1 minute ago, Lord Fellatio Nelson said:

    Yes Handy, just at the height of his fame in Serbia, Mr Challis carks it!

    Norman Wisdom was a superstar in Albania , his were the only kind of Western film that Enver Hoxha allowed.

    Would be interesting to know if any Brits actually host TV shows abroad, guests on shows, act on TV progs in the local language.

    PS: I had no idea Jeffery Holland was such a star out in Hungary! Is that to do with Hi De Hi?

    More for 'You Rang M'Lord ' I think. 

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  19. Posted

    2 hours ago, Lord Fellatio Nelson said:

    You know that Italian Gino D'Acampo fella who is now on every TV programme going?

    Well, just wondering if there are any British people who are TV celebrities in other non English speaking countries?

    A lot of 80s British sitcom stars are huge in Eastern Europe. John Challis  was very popular in Serbia and Jeffery Holland is huge in Hungary.  I can't think of anyone who is unknown in the UK who is famous elsewhere apart from Becki Cruell  who is huge in Japan, but YouTube 'stars' don't count really.

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  20. Posted

    On 17/11/2021 at 19:54, Handrejka said:

    Is it still possible to join?

     

    Here is my list of so

     

    Frank Field

    Anthony Sher

    Mikhail Gorbachev

    Peter Bowles

    Jean Marsh

    Leslie Caron

    Jane Elliott (blue eyes/brown eyes experiment)

    Eva Marie Saint

    Nanette Newman

    Jimmy Carter

    Pele

    David Gulpilil

    Lynne Reid Banks

    Nina  van Pallandt

    Linda Nolan

    Bob Dole

    Prunella Scales

    Thelma Barlow

    Bulle Ogier

    Eric Chappell

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    can you replace Dole with Vera Miles please.

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  23. Posted

    Richard Lee Sung - He could also have gone into the Korean War Vets thread, but he' s likely more known from MASH, one of the few actual Koreans on the show, died in August this year. 

     

    MASH Matters Podcast  Twitter: "We are deeply saddened to announce that veteran character actor and beloved #MASH guest star Richard Lee Sung passed away at the age of 91 on August 16th, 2021. Here is a statement from Richard's son, Russell. Rest in Peace, Curlee. Goodbye, Farewell, and Amen... https://t.co/Earpsa8EOR" / Twitter

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  24. Posted

    35 minutes ago, Lord Fellatio Nelson said:

    Oh come on Handy!!!!

    Don't leave it there, tell all!  :D

    There isn't much to tell. December 92 I am on a little holiday on the QE2 with my dad, and Ann and Nick are filming their Xmas special. They film various people saying Merry Christmas to the camera including me and dad and then an overhead shot of everyone on board together waving at the camera saying Happy Christmas. We all sit down to watch Xmas morning but they have cut out all the individual bits and just show the overhead. I am near the front so you can just about see me, but yeah, I was cut out so we watched it for nothing.

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