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Can't believe Sessions went before him.

Kylie Rae's "I'm in AEW"/"no wait I'm not, something bad happened there and I won't betray my Christian beliefs"/"I'm now opening a Patreon where you can see me in my skivvies smoking weed"/"Now I'm in Impact"/"No, wait, I'm going to go radio silent for fortnight and not tell anyone where I am"/"Actually I'm retiring" schtick has suicide-in-six-months written all over it. See I got ninja'd here....

Plus three members of the 1955 Dodgers ("Brooklyn's got a winning team") are still alive, based on a quick Google: Roger Craig, Sandy Koufax and Tommy Lasorda.

Roll tide on that. Elsewhere, this tweet "from" Terry Funk regarding Smothers' death does have the air of "he mumbled something from the room he never leaves and so we had to add some extra words to make it coherent"

There's going to be a lot of long COVID theme teams in 2021, huh?

Is this a general dumping ground for "who is alive/dead in songs" then? I did this for the Bonzo Dog Band's "The Intro and the Outro" when Neil Innes carked it:

Perhaps the ultimate fisking.

Would be weird as few celebrities did as many tawdry Japanese adverts than Connery

Of note that both Roger Moore and (presumably) Sean Connery's deaths were kept off the front pages/top of the news broadcasts, Moore by the Manchester Arena bombing and Connery by the new lockdown.

"Boy howdy, I hope Greengrass doesn't fuck my wife."

Lot of people had them down as the nadir of the Virgin Radio drivetime end of Britpop, but I've got a soft spot for "I'll See You Around" ngl.

Gonna watch that documentary about "Who Let the Dogs Out" this weekend, will report back if Monks Flowers is in it.

Sindika Dokolo, African art collector, dead in boating accident aged 48. Not interesting enough for a post on his own, but he was married to Isabel dos Santos, criminal exile, billionaire and subject of the Luanda Leaks.

The Chop has unsurprisingly been axed over the Nazi tattoos furore, and joins some illustrious company in getting 86'd after one episode.

Well yeah, only one person died and that was a copper.

Hale and Pace were a greater indictment of the wretchedness of 1980s Britain than Thatcherism, Hillsborough or the Broadwater Farm riots.

Cannon and Little should form a COVID widow supergroup now.

Possible subheader: Shit the bed

Not good enough to make it another 17 months though, as she's died aged 100.

Tracey Smothers' never-ending list of medical issues has finally caught up with him

He attended the last presidential debate with fellow Trump supporter Kid Rock.

Ridiculous, can we get a factchecker on this? That's better.

Born on the same day Butch and Sundance died.

Ebbe Skovdahl, manager of the all-conquering (at least domestically) Brondby team of the 90s, dead at 75. He had less-successful spells in charge of Benfica and Aberdeen, and was also uncle of the Laudrup brothers.