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The most bummed out I've been about any death for fucking ages, Rhodes was truly the greatest fat man of the 20th century.

Yeah, Lee, Moody and Coleman must be the first time in ages we've had three deaths that could all feasibly make a News at 10 broadcast, surely?

The devil's rode out

I was just about to post this news; he's particularly remembered, and generally despised, for his part in the selling of Brighton & Hove Albion's Goldstone Ground, leaving the club homeless for 18 years - he was the club's chief executive at the time. And if you need any pub trivia to go with him, he was also the last person to be elected to parliament in a by-election caused by an MP's assassination, as he got his Eastbourne seat after Ian Gow was blown up by the 'Ra.

Begging the question: which artist has recorded the most albums? Not live albums, not compilations, full studio albums. Merzbow's Wikipedia entry has him down for 237 since 1980, all of them completely unlistenable. Outsider artist/rapper/internet meme Viper recorded 333 albums in 2014, but the majority of those are either mixtapes or more like EPs than albums so that doesn't count.

And does the cause of death rhyme with hot, pot and snot? No, it rhymes with "PH was a fat fucking cunt who died during gallstone surgery".

So go on then. Who were the picks who you dropped at the last minute, the Paul-Gascoigne-crying-in-Glenn-Hoddle's-office of 2013 terminal illness? Either you didn't have full corroboration of their malady or you didn't fancy their obit chances. Chip Hawkes, The Tremeloes' lead singer after Brian Poole and, more importantly, father of Chesney, has had to pull out of those SOUNDS OF THE 60S tours that fill up provincial theatres nationwide, as he's been battling a form of blood cancer. He seems optimistic, though. Former WCW wrestler Hector Garza is battling terminal lung cancer at the age of just 43. But if The Sun didn't do an obit for Jay Strongbow, no way this curtain jerker gets one. Jerry Miller is the grandfather of The Jonas Brothers. That's it. I think there's a 40% chance that that would mean his forthcoming death from liver cancer would get him a Daily Mail sendoff, but I'm not sure. Similarly, Deborah Orr's mother is currently in a hospice with final stage cancer. I'm sure either she, or her hubby Will Self, would find it in themselves to write a terrible self-regarding article about WHAT DYING FROM CANCER MEANS IN TORY BRITAIN. Orr might even find it possible to blame Netanyahu for the death. Anyway, while this is a perfect pick, I couldn't for the life of me find Orr's mother's actual name. So no go. DJ Cheb I Sabbah has been fighting stomach cancer throughout most of the past year, but who the fuck cares about dance/world music fusion in 2013? Is Giles Peterson even still alive?

Christy Dignam is the portrait that Gianluigi Buffon keeps hanging up in his attic, right?

"The Queen of Versailles" was not only not a reality TV series, it wasn't even a TV series.

^^^ probably my favourite documentary of the past decade that is, you could base an entire career as a drag queen on Jackie Siegel.

Sam Culpeck, psychologist and dwarf who was one of the "stars" of the second series of Channel 4's "let's gawp at the weirdos" show The Undateables, has taken her own life at the age of 37.

Thorne seems to "come clean" with his gambling problems about every five years doesn't he? The story about him commentating on a match he was losing £38,000 on (a John Parrott clash) is one of sport's funniest and most depressing.

A new decision on the Frank van den Bleeken case may be made on Wednesday. Or it might not. Basically, the Dutch don't want him, so hopefully the Belgian justice minister will do the right thing by dead poolers and give him a bottle of gin and three packets of mogadon.

A pretty fascinating case study this guy, as said he had (at the time) the longest first round KO streak in boxing history, except all of his fights were against guys with records that were, at best, sketchy, and at worst non-existent. Allegedly a lot of his opponents were the same guy just fighting under a different name and wearing different coloured shorts.

^^^this is the kind of content I come on the DL for.

Former Everton midfielder Andy King dead from a heart attack at I've just seen "1 new reply" added someone's beaten me to this huh?

I think today's news will provide more than enough chance to assess Chucky's current health state. Still facing 15 years inside, despite snitching.

tbh Zhiva-gone seems the obvious one.

"Wait, am I North or East?"

There's only 20 male currently serving MPs who were a member of parliament for an English seat in the late 1980s...

He'll leave it there, so.

It's been a bit quiet on the Billy Graham front recently, let's go with him.

A beautiful mind all over the dashboard

Is that the first unnatural death in DL history? Kudos to the selection committee, regardless.