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It's turning into a nice little earner, as Jon Matthews chalks up another five grand. If only Jane Goodie had shown such resilience, though I suppose she did rake in a bit more than 10k. A stronger possibility of an obit after this, and a unique DDP pick for the canny Clathrate Gun. No need for a stewards' enquiry: Matthews is dead.

For all of Stubblefield's health problems, man appears to be in pretty rude health. This documentary from last year has a big section on him, he turns up at 1:40 in .

Political columnist Alan Watkins, who coined the terms "men in grey suits" and "young fogey", dead at 77.

Can I just chip in here and say that as far as I'm aware, Mark Oaten's predilections weren't for the "glass bottom boat", but rather for paying rent boys to defecate in their own underwear, which he would then carry around with him in the Houses of Parliament inside a briefcase, the sexual thrill for him based around the possibility of being caught with a load of soil prozzie kecks on her person. Do continue.

Dio cancels all forthcoming gigs for the rest of the year.

Yet more virulent anti-papism from the British press.

Blessed art thou amongst dead poolers, assuming he gets a UK obit.

Furio Scarpelli, scriptwriter of, among others, The Good, The Bad and The Ugly and Il Postino isn't going to outlive Eli Wallach, aged 90.

Godawful Daily Mail columnist and self-loathing fattey Allison Pearson stands down from her job with "suicidal depression"

Sonique and Michael C Hall both reported cancer-free. Not interesting enough for a post on their own, probably not even when paired together, but there you go.

Frontman for 80s hair metallers Poison, best known for lighters-in-the-air power ballad "Every Rose Has Its Thorn". Michaels himself also known to the hip young kids of today for his "Rock of Love" reality TV dating show, in which he sleeps with strippers and that's it.

Every rose has its thorn, if by "rose" you mean "brain stem" and "thorn" you mean "critical bleeding". Bret Michaels in intensive care with brain haemorrhage.

Apparently her incurable cancer has now been cured.

Terre'Blanche, Barrett, what price Griffin Morrissey for a triple? Fixed.

Yeah, at a guess that's because of certain actionable comments about the producer "Solar", a very shifty character who become close to Guru in his final days and is now going around with a letter he claims was written by Guru on his deathbed. Good to see rap music maintaining its usual dignified approach to a death. Guardian obit

Guru has gone from "JFK 2 LAX" to RIP.