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Joining St Rumwold, Samantha Smith and Judith Barsi in the rare "celebs dead before 18" pantheon.

No less an authority than Gary Kemp from Spandau Ballet is reporting Les Reed as dead. For those unfamiliar with his name, he wrote "It's Not Unusual", "There's A Kind of Hush" and Leeds United's "Marching On Together".

It's gonna be a bit like when the thick part of the ketchup finally comes out of the bottle. All we've had so far this year is that tomato precum, but as soon as we kick into overdrive big names are gonna be falling like 1945.

Also, the List of the Missed is taking an absolute pounding. Seven people in the last nine days.

Something the person who takes over from me (we really should get some names together soon) has to look forward to: sitting waiting for some lazy British journo to C+P the AFP obit for Bibi Andersson so I can update the site and go to bed.

Few other names I found: Roy Houghton: 31/3/21 Cyril Lawrence: 12/6/20 Lawrence's whereabouts is known by the Rochdale website (they did a piece on him two years ago) so he's definitely still with us.

104-year-old Norman Lloyd still healthy enough to attend the TCM Film Festival:

Dead.

Inventor of the mindmap, Tony Buzan, dead at 76.

"Comedian's comedian" (as in he had no commercial appeal) Ian Cognito Tommy Coopers on stage.

Hanson gets his QO thanks to the new ruling on BBC local news pages.

David Farrant, one of the two feuding "paranormal investigators" from the notorious Highgate Vampire farrago, has died.

Got reminded of the utterly shite early 90s ITV gameshow version of Cluedo earlier today: There were four series, and a Christmas special, each other which had a completely different cast. All were highly QO-able British actors. Pam Ferris is the only remaining Mrs White (pre-deceased by June Whitfield, Joan Sims, Mollie Sugden and Liz Smith). There's two dead Rev Greens (Robin Nedwell and Derek Nimmo), two dead Col Mustards (Leslie Grantham and Lewis Collins) and one dead Mrs Peacock (Kate O'Mara). Ms Scarlett and Professor Plum both have full dance cards, although seeing as the latter was played by people including David MacCallum and Tom Baker, perhaps not for long.

Turns out it was just a bump and he's fine.