Spade_Cooley

Big Bank Hank has gone motel, hotel, Holiday Inn, mausoleum aged 57.

There was a piece in the i this morning about Macauley being upset about these hoaxes. I suppose that is the one thing we can agree with him on. Dunno though, would he be more upset if the world, like, simply forgot him? That is the beauty of things like this. He can claim the moral high ground of being upset and offended whilst reminding everyone of his existence and body of work. There is only one thing worse than being talked about...... Being molested by Michael Jackson?

Four days without tweeting. Surely this is it now?

I wouldn't say the year is dead and buried just yet, and that's not just poncey fake modesty. Kate Granger and Clive James are on the clock and if they both drop before the Times Square ball then Drunkasaskunk pulls level with me.

Had a fever dream about Mario Van Peebles dying last night and me being really annoyed that I hadn't picked him.

How about Mike Edmonds? Although he'd probably prefer to be remembered for his roles in Star Wars and Time Bandits, to me he'll always be Little Ron from Maid Marian and Her Merry Men. 70-years-old, not appeared in any TV/film since 2009.

Marty Jannetty is the one that stuns me: you always feel that Hall, Roberts et al have reached the Keith Richards stage where they've basically become immune to drug abuse. Jannetty, on the other hand, is a permanent bombsite of a human being, plus his ankle has fused the wrong way round because he hasn't got enough money to get it seen to. The wrestler deaths I'd expect in the next few years, ignoring the ancient (Verne Gagne) and the young OD potentials (Travis Tomko) would be: Bobby Eaton, Ole Anderson, Kamala.

Any chance you'll get a national press obituary? thx

Love the idea that Denis Norden's death would be this massively concealed event and that it would have to pass through several layers of security before being announced lest the reverberations of the news caused a revolution among the proles.

I hope they keep his barnet intact when they bury him.

Intervention 1 has already occurred...

JMV had a two-day long priapism once iirc, a little thing like losing a leg won't hurt him.

Women, huh?

He truly is a son unique. Now _that's_ a music gag right there.

Klas Ingesson, played for Sweden in 1990 and 1994 as well as being a big part of that pretty handy Bologna side of the late 90s (and the slightly less-impressive Sheffield Wednesday 1995 squad) dead at 46.

I just noticed. Ignore me. Feel free to use "Beyonce photographer gets her halo, halo" as a headline though.

Cancer has now spread to her ovaries, and she's back in hospital taking pictures this bad. Died in the past 15 minutes. Looks like I have a fun weekend of waiting to see if she obits. In that case I'll hold fire on any updates for a little bit. If she gets the required it could be another late run that does the business again for you! I've got you covered TMIB, feel free to update whenever you need to.

Honey I failed to shrink the tumour

South African international goalkeeper and current Orlando Pirates captain Senzo Meyiwa shot dead at 28. Well, he's not "current" any more but you get what I mean

Cancer has now spread to her ovaries, and she's back in hospital taking pictures this bad. Died in the past 15 minutes. Looks like I have a fun weekend of waiting to see if she obits.

Said astrologer, the woman who Reagan consulted with to ask what the star charts said he should do during the Iran-Contra Scandal, Joan Quigley has died aged 87.

Went with Joao Havelange, seems like a perfect "oh, he's still alive? oh, he's dead?" death.

Lilli Carati, a kind of Italian Barbra Windsor who parlayed her beauty queen success into a long run of cheap-but-popular sex comedies in the 1970s, dead at 58. Unlike Babs, she later became a heroin addicted and did hardcore pornography with Rocco Siffredi.

Bunker-Hunt was also the owner of Empery, the 1976 Derby winner.

The DDP has officially gone bananas! He'll probably get an English language obit eventually...Well done anyway! Never in doubt, although surprisingly the Daily Mail beats both the BBC and The Guardian to the English obit.