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If you look at the New York Times photo they took in 2018, she'd clearly aged since the bike photo but still looked great for her advanced age imo. February 2018 according to the NY Times citation.

For the record, I do hope you turn out right here.

Trying to amalgmate that into stuff I've seen on Netflix... Homeland and Prison Break? Currently about 5 episodes left on The Good Place.

Well done, Pedro and good luck.

I can't find it now years later because social media is ephemeral but there was a lot of chatter when John Freeman died about losing the chance for another MP centenarian for a while on twitter as Atkins was ruled out as being too frail to reach 100! And that was in 2014.

"I start this eulogy for my brother in law with the simple sword of truth..."

Ingham was in such unusually charitable form for Bernard Ingham in his anecdotes I did wonder if he was burying hatchets ASAP ahead of snuffing it, but a year on he still persists.

Just to note that article says the (until recently current) Lord Ogmore has died recently. As he isn't as fame seeking as most of his family, this went completely by this forum and seemingly twitter too. Also I didn't know Aitken is stepfather to Jared Harris off Mad Men.

Showed up in that Thatcher doc last year looking half fucked, I flagged him up as a sooner than later DDP hit at the time. This guy will be next to go though imo.

Wouldn't surprise me if some of those names wind up with 8+ DL appearances in their future. Dunno which ones though - you never know the vagaries and whims of Reaper Gooseberry Crumble...

Just for the record, charon wasn't DQ'd from the Cup for whatever went down. He went out because he was unable to put in a team before the deadline. I actually held back to the bitter end of that day just in case he got out of the jail and found a spot with WiFi or what not to put his team in. I didn't know he was banned till later on, of course. If I wanted someone out the cup I just rigged the draw to put them against Death Impends or Sir Creep err, nothing at all, honest.

I mean, we've got this lot still acting to varying degrees (with some added notable exceptions): 1932 –Bill Roache, Gabriel Woolf (retired in 2015) 1933– , Sian Philips, Joan Collins, David McCallum, Derek Martin (retired in 2017 to "put his feet up"), Brian Murphy, Barbara Knox, Donald Douglas (honorary mention as retired 15 years ago) 1934: Tom Baker (mostly sticking to voice work now), Annette Crosbie, Alan Bennett, Eileen Atkins, Jean Marsh (full time acting career ending in 2015 by massive stroke she was meant to survive, but bounced back from), Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Vernon Dobtcheff, Christopher Benjamin (sticks to voice work now), Slyvia Sims, Timothy West (still busy despite being carer for Pru), Wendy Craig, John Standing 1935: Julian Glover (tbh Glover could die and I'd still expect him to show up for 5 new projects a year), David Prowse (retired in 2017 after some ill health),Donald Sutherland, Michael Jayston, James Bolam (has pretty much retired off Cbeebies royalty repeats on daily showings of Grandpa in my Pocket!), Johnny Briggs (pretty much retired with Mike Baldwin), Jim Dale (voice acting), Barry Cryer, Judy Parfitt, Amanda Barrie (mostly appearing as herself), Melvyn Hayes (Semi-retired, does voice work), Wanda Ventham, Janet Henfrey, Anne Reid The Democrat West Coast firewall of British acting, that lot.

Things you don't expect to read. "Oh I'm passing the time watching Narcos on Netflix..." Overlooked on here because when there's no lockdown he's yet another of that formidable bunch of British thesps born 1932-35 that are still acting.

Well done.

Sarah Wright nee Gray, English Women's Shooting Semifinalist at the 2014 Commonwealth Games. In the Women's Skeet event, apparently, 35 years old. Just for context and all.

I didn't realise lockdown had been that long but true enough the days do merge into each other.

From the little I've seen of Norcott (on, don't laugh, The Mash and Last Leg!) he seems like a mirror of Nish Kumar: here's his politics first and then trying to be funny. Doesn't work for me when anyone does that. I mean, two of my favourite comics (Alan Coren and Kenny Everett) were right wing but you'd never know it from their main output. (Everett gave folk a clue with his routine for the young Tories people took surprisingly serious.) Because they focused on being funny. And were.

Bloody hell, who knew the one thing everyone would agree on in DL forum is bloody NIsh Kumar!

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tbf BBC comedy is fed by the British comic circuit which has been predominantly left wing since the 80s when Alexei Sayle and Ben Elton became the big names to gravitate around. (Arguably you could go back further - Monty Python was clearly left in its agenda at the time - although I'm thinking of when Ben Elton and co started to mock the Bernard Manning generation. Also Sayle is a funny fucker whereas Elton is a git, but I digress.) Last Leg spent equal amounts of time taking the pish out of Corbyn and Labour to be fair. There's not much politics to discuss right now except coronavirus. Not a fan of Kumar or the Mash, and not seen HIGNFY in yonks, although it did help launch the Mayoral career of the current PM! Maitlis expresses her opinion on twitter as much as Neil does and hosts the show which has been the Analysis and Opinions on the News show for as long as I can recall. Paxman couldn't go 5 minutes with giving us his views on the days news. Andrew Neil is the boss at these sorts of shows, yes, but he's 71 now and winding down. She's not on that level but is an improving interviewer and is better than the awful Emma Barnett (too Paxman), Andrew Marr (clearly fucked by that stroke) and Robert Peston (losing his mind on ITV) as the other much used political interviewers on TV at the moment. Also Kirsty Wark still presents Newsnight on a Friday iirc. Maitlis Monday and Tuesday, the dreadful Emma Barnett on Wednesday and Thursday and Wark on Friday nights, I think that's the current schedule. PS Kirsty Wark is 65 now!!!!!

Don't worry, it's all been sorted now. Emily Maitlis's been chucked off tonights Newsnight after the government threw a huff at the BBC for her comments about Dominic Cummings breaking the law he broke.

Some folk, aye. My approach is akin to the second verse of Brave Sir Robin from the Holy Grail.

tbh I wouldn't know. I blame the Wurzels song for appearing in my mind at random intervals.

Yes, that was my conclusion. Especially the first sentence!!!

Possibly? Although after trawling through all that for you my eyes feel a bit like Mr Magoos so that can wait for now.