Spade_Cooley

Please refer to him by his proper name, "I Thought That Was Keith Barron".

The Wanted will be reforming for the "Inside My Head" charity concert Parker is putting on.

Yeah, definitely a radar figure and being as a) he's a big social media poster b) the OFAH fan community being pretty obsessive with the show's cast, we should be able to keep a very close eye on developments here.

And not even a serious operation. He'd retired from football the previous year and went in to have some work done on a knee ligament that was giving him grief.

Jean-Pierre Adams, of French national team and PSG fame, has finally died after 39 years in a coma.

This month's Fortean Times cover story is on the tale of Baby Jean, a (duh) baby who was "adopted" by a cult known as the Royal Fraternity of Master Metaphysicians, who attempted to make her immortal via a vegetarian diet and general good vibes. She was taken back by her birth mother after a year or so as the cult hadn't formally filed for adoption. Everyone else involved in the case is long dead, but Jean herself.... was she immortal? The article, as with a few other places online, says she was definitely alive in 2002 but had no interest in speaking to reporters about her past. She was born in 1938, in New York or thereabouts. Her name is either Jean Gaunt or Jean Gauntt (both spellings were used in press reports at the time). Her mother was Catherine Gaunt(t). We know that she married and had children, and I don't believe she is this person as Tennessee isn't that close to New York (if my American geography is any good). So... can anyone deliver an update?

Dead.

New member of the 100 Club, unmentioned on this forum before but surely a QO lock: PR executive and art collector David Finn.

Cops are apparently at her apartment now trying to get in.

Unmentioned on the forum until earlier this year, but noted heterosexual George Maharis turns 93 today.

Catherine MacPhail dead at 75.

Francesco Morini, five-time scudetto winner with Juventus who played in all of Italy's games at the 1974 World Cup, dead at 77.

As the kids say, "TIL" that Odstock is a real place and wasn't just made up for a beloved DDPers username, having driven past it while looking for a pub toilet.

Had considered doing a theme team of Grand Theft Auto voice actors next year, there goes the projected captain.

Old-school-style deadpooling here, but on the "this man looks about one more row with his cokehead son and Moldovan son-in-law away from a heart attack" principle, how about Chuck from 90 Day Fiancée?

Husband's been dead for 80 years and she's not wearing black? Don't care for this new breed of nonnas.

Former Arsenal youth team prospect Sam Oji, who floated around the non-league and League of Ireland later in his career, dead at 35. I remember him solely because he was the cousin of early 2000s R&B icon Lemar.

I saw the son from that family wander into a branch of Lush in Brighton once and the staff there treated him like he was James Dean in 55.

Bud Cort hasn't appeared in a film since 2016. I can't find any interviews with him in the past few years either, particularly notable as there were plenty of 50th anniversary of Harold and Maude articles but none with comment by him.

I'd be very surprised if the oldest player in the world wasn't from the UK being as that's where the earliest leagues were codified. Wikipedia has no pages for any footballers older than William Simpson listed as still living (actually that's a lie: it has Eugen Rupf still living at 107, but he's listed as dying in 2000 on other language versions of Wikipedia and I'm sure if he was still alive something would have been made of it in the Swiss media).

Be interesting to see if Apilado gets a QO: part of me thinks she should via AP, but her death being reported in an announcements page and not a news story makes me wonder. On a side note: if Eileen Ash makes it another two months, will she be the first British super-centenarian with claims to non-longevity fame? Jerzy Pajączkowski-Dydyński was born in modern-day Poland, George Frederick Ives was only famous for being the last surviving Boer War soldier and Katherine Plunket was born/died/lived entirely in modern-day Ireland. Am I missing someone?

Bad couple of days for British reggae-influenced mixed-race Radio 2-friendly pop groups who had their biggest success in the 1980s but had a #1 single in the 1990s: Simply Red founding member Fritz McIntyre is dead.

Kyle Anderson dead at 33. There's probably a "falling out of the top 32" joke here but I've only just woken up.

Guess you could say "the sun ain't gonna shine anymore" for him, he's gone away like a "summer breeze" and should just "let forever be".