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Allison Mack being second-in-command of a sex cult really isn't a headline I expected to see in 2017. I assumed she was, y'know, working on some police procedural show that doesn't get broadcast in the UK, or is third down the castlist on an Amazon-exclusive show. Instead she's branding sex slaves.

Monarch goes bust

David Hance, he died about 10 hours after I brought him up here. No DDP-qualifying obits but plenty of major media coverage elsewhere.

Am I reading Wikipedia right: he was the guy who did the fake Paul McCartney vocals on "Stars On 45" by Stars On 45?

Allen Toussaint rode his pony on outta here two years ago today.

Who's gonna risk imprisoned Bahraini civil rights activist (stage 3 colon cancer) Elyas Al-Mulla in 2018?

Also, have people confused LFO (early 90s Warp-signed EDM act) with LFO (late 90s boy band)? Lima was a member of the latter, not the former. I mean "Summer Girls" still kills at karaoke.

Reasons to be Roey, 1 2 3

If you ever look at the cast lists for the European versions of Celebrity Big Brother and Strictly and I'm A Celeb, like 1 in 3 contestants are in the line of succession for a defunct monarchy.

Greg Gilbert will be turning on Southampton's Christmas lights on November 25th. If he makes the appearance and seems well enough, that effectively means a King Michael of Romania death rules me out of being a five-time champion. I mean he could electrocute himself but it's doubtful.

Whatever happened to Corey Haim?

Here's Taylor wrestling in the Shawn Michaels-owned indie TWA back in 2000, doing a Crusher Blackwell tag team gimmick called "The Buffet Brothers". Their theme tune appears to be a sub-Al Yaknovich "Mambo Number 5" parody.

YW coming into this thread with some big news:

Gonna be marathoning Two Greedy Italians this weekend, ngl.

Tugboat Taylor and Tugboat Thomas are different people, I think there's been some confusion. Fred "Shockmaster/Typhoon" Ottman is still with us. The guy who's dead mainly worked as a job guy in mid-80s WCW and WWF, and trained a few Texan wrestlers of minor note (Hernandez in particular).

His risotto recipe was the best any chef has had.

Say what you want about the Tories, but their internecine fighting is infinitely more entertaining than anything Labour ever manages.

Priti vacant? Priti reckless? Take your pick....

Feel like the graps fans on here need to unite around one pick, so may I put forward "The Ugandan Giant" himself, Kamala. Broke, has had both legs amputated due to diabetes and guaranteed obits in all the redtops as well as the Mail, Guardian and Indie. Also, the 1993 Kamala "moon belly" yellow card Hasbro is officially the most valuable wrestling figure of all time, as only 24 were ever produced. Here he is, pre-Kamala, getting a beatdown from Shirley Crabtree himself. Check out the slackness of those ropes:

Marty Robbins heeded the master's call today in 1982, aged just 57

I believe Thompson was never officially the caretaker/temporary manager of Liverpool, he only performed the role and was never given any official title or position by the club.

Are you implying that the crackdown on various senior political figures in Saudi Arabia, along with Casino Donny's volte face on the House of Saud, is somehow related to the Aramco IPO? Surely not...

More importantly, Abdul Aziz bin Fahd was/is the "shabby sheik" who parties in New York by hiring venues out, paying top models to be there and then stands in the corner looking like an Arab Kevin Smith drinking Slurpees

The best win percentage for a British manager who didn't manage Manchester United or Liverpool (thus eliminating Evans, Rodgers and Dalglish)? Bruce Rioch.