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Fergie Frederikson and Ruby Muhammad. But I suppose you mean a Deathlist hit? The last Deathlist hit not to be a DDP hit was Vincent O'Brien in 2009. And he got obits everywhere. 1996 – Glyn Worsnip, Timothy Leary, 1997 – Hastings Banda, Burgess Meredith, Jeffrey Bernard, Jacques Cousteau 1998 – Lew Grade, Joan Hickson, Helen Wills Moody 1999 - Quentin Crisp, Deryck Guyler, Alf Ramsey, Lord Denning 2000 – Don Budge, 2001 – Brother Theodore, Stanley Kramer 2002 –W Clement Stone, Joe Bonanno, Chuck Jones 2003 – Elia Kazan, Hardy Amies 2004 – Lord Scarman 2009 – Vincent O’Brien (DL hits not on the DDP) Of those we can go straight to 2002 as Kazan, Amies and Scarman all got obits, obviously. But then we get to Clement Stone in 2002 and Brother Theodore in 2001, of which there is not much evidence now but perhaps they got something back in the day now gone. Although the front page bit on Theodore suggests no one noticed for months.

Good Willz Hunting was right there!

He'd get a DDP QO for sure (The Mail love him) and I think he'd get a BBC obit in their America section, though not on the front page.

Oxymoron?

Sorry, it hadn't come across in my brain that way, but really, notability is the most important thing by far, no? Some folk get on the DL on health grounds rather than just being the right age, but they need to be notable in their own right, they don't just nab the Drop 40. Well, all of the Drop 40...

Just straight up "Do you think this person is worthy of a spot on the list?" Notability and frailty would presumably play a part in that decision for some, but it's just basically that yes or no based on your own view of the person. Or lack of a view of the person, as the case may be. No doubt Toast might have different views on notability to, say, Joey, but that's all good! Folk can moan all they like about names as long as they write YES or NO after each one and I'll save the moans for when I could do with a laugh

Oh right, sans masterlist here is the team I PM'd CC in May for this. 1. Sir Peregrine Worsthorne 2. Sir Patrick Duffy 3. Sir Michael Epstein 4. Sir Michael Shaw 5. Sir Leslie Marr 6. Sir Paul Fox 7. Sir Dennis Walters 8. Sir Peter Hordern 9. Sir Patrick McNair-Wilson 10. Sir Andrew Bowden sub - Captain Tom Moore

He was in one of those OAP get together shows last year and looked in better nick than Terry Bradshaw (sort of the Kevin Keegan of US sports) who is 15 years younger!

96, I think? But getting close to the century.

From last years Sun - 7 days a week home care team due to how fast she was falling.

Maybe next week, unless someone wants to go first.

^ Huh? Poor Poochie, ignored again. http://www.derbydeadpool.co.uk/deadpool2020/celebs_H.html#holmi

I was sort of hoping it would hint Willz or Biblio or someone into action.

Oh damn. In terms of a legend passing, and in terms of the DL skipping him over.

Can't be many of the Tales of the Unexpected stars left standing, bar the obvious ones like Jacobi, Timothy West, Joan Collins etc.

My Aunt who is in the slow downward spiral stage pretty much settled that when she was having her good days. "The hell am I going in one of those places!" So she has a care team in place "where she feels comfortable" (ie her own home) and most of the care homes nearby has been ravaged by covid. So even though I expect *the call* pretty much at any time on her age and health, she's probably bought herself a bit more time to sit in front of her TV.

Oh wow, he was a great writer. Sort of the urban fantasy of an Alasdair Gray but with the backdrop of the Spanish Civil and Barcelona history. Covid?

Its a half demolished forgotten building that was getting used as a tyre dump. Tyre dump fires are hellish to put out. You could see the smoke from here at the other end of the city!

Pahor I'd have agreed with but the fact he got a BBC1 documentary in his honour last Christmas suggests he's clearly more famous than I'd thought. Vic Seixas is my latest attempt to get my first unique hit for Pan Breed so we all know the score - he'll die next April when I've dropped him for someone else.

He was a TV director who had already moved into production and business by 1962 (paywalled reference) who later married Joan's personal assistant. From what I can gather he might be the same Maximilian Bryer who died this week aged 98 (in her book, Collins says Max was about 15 years older than Judy Bryer, and Max celebrated his 90th birthday in 2012 on Joan's twitter). No idea what he directed, but given his age he likely falls into the ephemeral of stuff that got forgotten from the 1940s and 50s when no one was keeping records. Only other references I can find come from Joan herself on social media. So my guess? A long forgotten name from the start of Joan Collins's career, only remembered now because she kept mentioning him.

I was a bit surprised too even though she was cooking on telly when I was a kid... admittedly that was the late 80s.

PS No relation to the late Uncle Terry who was only ever mean to monsters coloured gween...

Replaced by John McDonnell (!) who paid this tribute: "Despite my respect for the conventions of the House, I shall not perjure myself by praising my immediate Tory predecessor. Many saw him simply as a Tory buffoon, and he was once described as a "pig's bladder on a stick". When he chose as his election slogan, "We love Dicks", we were not sure whether to laugh or to call in the obscene publications squad. However, Terry Dicks was not a joke. He was a stain on the character of this House, the Conservative party which harboured him and the good name of my constituency. He brought shame on the political process of this country by his blatant espousal of racism and his various corrupt dealings. He demeaned the House by his presence, and I deeply regret that the Conservative party failed to take action to stem his flow of vile bigotry. Thankfully, my constituents can now say good riddance to this malignant creature."

20% of the Drop 40 gone too.

He's a cunt. I mean, sure, a good friend of mine has died of covid, but I mean on general principle here. Still funny he had the monopoly on home computers in the UK and blew it. Sir Clive Sinclairs the mad businessman the hipsters prefer... (Hang on, I just googled him and Sir Clive is 80 next month! I thought he was Branson age...)