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Jane Goodall is doing a tour of Australia in May/June, so is presumably well.

This, Pele, Barbara Walters, and Vivienne Westwood dying has seriously put a dent in my 2023 DDP list.

Betty Bobbitt, who played Judy Bryant in 'Prisoner: Cell Block H' has died following a stroke. https://www.starobserver.com.au/artsentertainment/prisoners-betty-bobbitt-dies/198704

Dame Livvy is going to be playing at the Australian Bushfire Relief concert in Sydney in February. It'll be her first concert for quite some time and although it is for a very worthwhile cause, it also suggests she's feeling better health-wise than she has for some time. Cracking lineup too.

Awwww, I loved her in and as Rhoda. Very sad news though after the original diagnosis, she did well to survive as long as she did. I feel partly responsible for her death to be honest after I removed her from my 2019 list. Sorry.

Annie Sugden is 100! By 'eck. What an age. They build them strong in Yorkshire. I hope she had a wonderful day.

Olivia Newton-John's currently the top trend on Twitter in Australia. The reports are very conflicting with some news saying she has "weeks rather than months to live", "clinging to life" and others saying she's "A-OK". I personally am not sure what I believe (though am hitting F5 frantically), but either way, she will have left a great legacy with the Olivia Newton-John Wellness Centre & Research Centre in Melbourne, not to mention all her music and films.

This was on Aussie TV last week. Not looking too shabby at all. Her annual Wellness Walk is next Sunday and there's been no talk/news of her not participating.

Well, going by that photo, she's clearly not permanently consigned to a wheelchair. That's just one of those functional wheelchairs for the temporarily incapacitated, or other one-off use. I'm hoping she was just taking the weight off her feet because being Japanese, she's scheduled to appear on my DDP list somewhere circa 2036.

Last minute DDP 2017 drops/grants of eternal life: Desmond Tutu (forgot until I had hit send) Bob Hawke (have a feeling he might see out the year) Stirling Moss (doesn't appear to be ill, just old) Nobby Stiles Fats Domino Danielle Darrieaux Geoffrey Palmer Jill Gascoigne Eileen Derbyshire (couldn't find anything about current health) Thelma Barlow (also couldn't find anything about current health)

I'm rather worried now for Honor Blackman seeing as she has two threads to herself...

I suspect the spokesperson would be based at Buck House; rather than accompany them to Sandringham, any official statement would probably come from there. However, it's increasingly looking like much ado about not a lot. Oddly enough I can't find any reliable sources covering the (alleged) media blackout.

Okay, so I admit I got this from that highly reliable source known as Twitter, but Beeb and ITV vans allegedly setting up in front of Buckingham Palace.

So if forgiving made him feel so much better, why doesn't he forgive the BBC and SYP? Maybe he doesn't sell as many albums and calendars as he used to. I'm just detecting a little whiff of hypocrisy from Saint Cliff. If Sir Cliff wins the case against South Yorkshire police and the Beeb, I doubt he would keep the money for himself but give it to charity.

Ouch. Guilty as charged. I'm 5'3".