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Ringo Starr?

Interview on Gilbert Gottfriend's Amazing Colossal Podcast this week. One of the more doddery guests they've had on so far, but you draw your own conclusions.

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Best sport in the world.

Times of Israel would, presumably, be a reliable source here, and they reckon it's a matter of hours not days.

101-year-old "Battle of Cable Street" veteran and former Communist councillor Max Levitas can be added to your list of "guaranteed centenarian obits". He's taking part in an event to make 80 years since Cable Street next month.

Just to brag, he was on my draft 2017 team without a QO worry. Figured he had enough Grammy love to get an AP/Reuters obit.

This is all just leading up to the DDP/DL podcast, huh?

Splitting radio DJs from "club" DJs could lead us to use the perfect tagline for a thread about DJs/electronica/rave artists: "Sick drops"

Terry Jones suffering from primary progressive aphasia, no longer able to give interviews.

So desperate to start a CJ De Mooi thread but I don't want to become the new joeyruss.

Gerry Haywood, one of Yorkshire's better players of the early 80s, dead at 70. He made the quarter-finals of the 1983 British Professional, knocking out Keith Deller before coming up against Eric Bristow.

Nice pic of the hacks gathering outside the hospital Chirac's in:

It doesn't reward "fame" per se, rather "fame of illness". Remember, Dr Granger and Joey Feek would both have earned these "fame" bonuses this year, as would Lauren Hill last year.

Lovely photo of X-Pac and Billy Gunn at the height of DX's WWF fame.

<pedant> They used to date </pedant>

Shawty Lo killed in a car accident at 41. Scholars of hip-hop will remember his 2008 hit "Dey Know".

AFP reporting his family asking to "respect their privacy at this time". If he's not dead, I don't think he'll be seeing the weekend. Hollande's plane lands in Paris in an hour, should have a definitive answer then.

Former French government minister has tweeted saying so.

Big rumours going around the newsroom he's carked it.

A strong nominee for greatest character actor of all-time, Walter Brennan took his curtain call at Cactus Creek today in 1974.

Strategy implications of this switch won't be a wholescale switch from Hassan Asifs to Zsa Zsa Gabors, but rather when it comes to 60/40 picks it will be wiser to go with the more famous: Howard Marks rather than Paul Cox, for instance.

Could we say that Davey Jones' Locker is... talking out of his arse?

Bahman Golbarnezhad and Charmian Carr are my wild card picks.

Kind of both tbh. It does celebrate drag culture in all forms and pays suitable tribute to LGBT history and cultural milestones, but on the other hand a lot of Frankenstein-editing goes on to ensure that certain contestants are portrayed in somewhat unflattering lights. Anyway, here's season 6's Snatch Game.