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Arguably the greatest Columbo villain OAT Jack Cassidy, who was one of three actors to play the murderer three times in the show (alongside Patrick McGoohan and Robert Culp), died today in 1976. He also shagged Cole Porter.

Great post.

Kia Lettice, who probably would have made a few of the less salubrious DDP teams in 2017 due to the Mail's Australian staff taking an interest in her, dead at 22.

Big Daz Knew

Ah well.

I assumed it was Omar Sharif, which they were only six months off with iirc. Then again, stopped clocks and all that.

Noticed this one while skimming through gossip blog blind items: A-list rock star, "permanent", former addict, specific reference to it not being Mick Jagger.... Mr Steven Tyler?

Aye, Person A still hasn't revealed the results of their tests in November. Terribly unsporting, really... Big fan of the guaranteed QO pick whose test results won't be available until the first week of January.

Jesus, I hadn't heard this until I saw it on Wikipedia. This has been a bad day for me. First John Glenn, now Greg Lake. It's been a bad year! Tell me about it So, wtihout boring you too much - I spend most of one year compiling the opening radio show for the new on and that show is our "List of the Lost" wherein we feature those who died the previous year. Let's just say the revisions on the running order as we put the script together have been taxing and we've already negotiated a longer show than is usually scheduled. Next prob - is ELP a fitting tribute to E and L or do we throw in Greg in his King Crimson pomp instead (which I'm up for doing by way of playing Cadence and Cascade) Why do I get the feel Shawty Lo will get short (shawt?) shrift from your playlist?

Louis Tomlinson's mother, Johannah Deakin, dead at 42. Will be getting more newsroom traffic than John Glenn's death today.

Cabaret singer Gayiel Von is currently in a hospice with final-stage liver cancer, sang back-up for Barbra Streisand among other things but I'd be stunned if she made the start line for 2017.

He means her off Loose Women's sister.

Just found a "lost" obituary for Chus Lampreave, mentioned in this interview with Pedro Almodovar from August.

The rule is that you have to be 18 as of start of January 1st 2017. Hence why Zach Sobiech, who died aged 18 but entered 2013 17, wasn't that year's most popular joker pick.

Peaches, the electroclash singer?Peaches Geldof? Edit: Goddamnit, I forgot Peaches Geldof is dead. As for my own shortlist, I find it terribly conventional right now. But I want to avoid last year's mistake and take out Mark Farren and Pearl Washington in the last week for terminally ill but hardly notable people. I will channel these instincts into my B team. I think my team can hardly be improved anymore though I have to edu-cate myself some more. Just yesterday I started going through my longlist and found out that a DDP regular and very early entry into my list, is going South. As is his/her obitability though. Francine "Peaches" Hurd Barker of Peaches and Herb is also dead. A cursed name?

I think I will go with my "Just Under The Wire" theme team this year, celebs and notables born in 1998 and thus 2017 is the first year they'd be eligible for the DDP.

ngl, just found an absolute peach of a pick that seems heavily off the radars of everyone on here.

Palmer must be bricking it.

Wave goodbye to the cast of Are You Being Served.

Could this be the Drive for Five? Let's get #4 out of the way first. Hopefully my leaking of confidential information to al-Baghdadi to ensure he won't get a drone up his arse before January 1 will pay off.

Pakistani singer Junaid Jamshed is reportedly one of 47 dead after a plane crashed on its way to Islamabad Airport. He had previously been assaulted at Islamabad Airport earlier this year after "blaspheming" one of Mohammed's wives.

Matt Le Tissier has come forward and said he was abused by Southampton's Bob Higgins.