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I meant in terms of DDP points if he relapses, you!

Well, given Hurt and Stanton were alive a year ago, get Skerritt and Holm on your shortlist. A cheeky double!

"What we going to do tonight, Brain?" "Same thing we do every night, Pinky - help you recover from cancer try to take over the world!" Rob Paulsen survives battle with throat cancer, but one to watch anyhow due to age (62 next year) and overall probability of throat cancer relapses. Should he relapse, QO obit guaranteed.

Now that he's dead, Sam Fox accuses him of sexual assault. Apparently its one of the hooks of a book she's releasing...

Hey, with their songs including When I'm Gone, If I Make it through December, To Say Goodbye and I'm Gonna Be (on the DDP),it was as if she was trying to give us a clue.

Kong Hon? Phooey!

Yes, yes I am. I could change the typo, but if it's inadvertently amusing...

A shot at this, then: 1. Kirk Douglas 2. Clive James 3. Prince Philip 4. Rev Billy Graham 5. Leah Bracknell 6. George Bush Sr 7. Olivia de Havilland 8. Vera Lynn 9. Paul Gascoigne 10. Jimmy Carter 11. Queenie 12. Stephen Hawking 13. Robert Mugabe 14. Donald rump 15. Prunella Scales 16. Nobby Stiles 17. Dick Van Dyke 18. Stan lee 19. Stefan karl 20. Val kilmer 21. Denis norden 22. Greg Gilbert 23. Olivia Newton John 24. Linda Nolan 25. Tessa Jowell 26. Billy Connolly 27. John mccain 28. Franco Zeffirelli 29. Sidney poitier 30. Patrick Cryne 31. Paul Alcock 32. Dean Francis 33. Aretha Franklin 34. Fernando Ricksen 35. Gorbachev 36. Rolf Harris 37. Angela Lansbury 38. Ami Brown 39. Ronnie Wood 40. Martin Peters In no particular order. Ami Brown is my stab in the dark for "much mentioned terminal case who surprisingly appears on the Drop 40". Gone Valerie harper, doris day, shannen Doherty, Gordon banks

Yes, several of them were. Joan Sims - COPD complications Charles Hawtrey - vascular issues from smoking Sid James - heart attack, cut heavy smoking in 67 after first heart attack Kenneth Connor - cancer Peter Butterworth - sudden heart attack. Think he smoked. Hattie Jacques - Heavy smoker. heart attack Terry Scott - cancer. "I know it would be better to give up the booze, fags and birds, but life would be so boring, wouldn't it?" Bernard Bresslaw - smoker, heart attack But then you also had from the regulars: Roy Castle - famously got lung cancer despite being a lifetime non-smoker Kenneth Williams - suicide Jim Dale - still alive Barbara Windsor - still alive

Watched the last in the new series this week. Set in Wales. Prunella still out and about but looking more out of it than even during Series 7 (India), clearly being held up (not literally) by her husband, her listening/interaction had dropped, and Timothy was doing the loch opening bit as she "isn't able to do that anymore". At the end West said he was unsure if they'd be able to film anymore due to Scale's increasing deterioration. Poor chap looked distraught at times. It was actually quite sad to see, tbh, and had the feel of a goodbye to it, even if she didn't look at death's door imminently.

A snippet in a Financial Times interview with Mark Gatiss from last month: Making a last minute bid for the Deathlist 50?

Hmm, found this: And a reference to him being seriously ill in the Express back in 2010, but he's written a book and been in public since then. Curious, however.

Aretha on Aretha:

Given she were diagnosed in April, here's a pic from 2016 for comparisons:

Hmm, I was thinking of 1st being their lifetime achivement (Deathlist wise) spot, but you're right, it tends to be a regular AND/OR likely to go. So Bush Sr then Kirk or Rev Billy imo. None of the new names, though I could see McCain maybe being in the top 5.

Bush Sr, Prince Philip, Kirk or Rev Billy - if 1st place isn't one of them, I will be shocked.

Be nice if Barnsley could actually win the odd game (1 win in 7 as it stands) to give Patrick Cryne more incentive to live another few weeks.

Recognise the face. He was in 2 episodes of Taggart but I can't mind the roles off the top of my head. He's apparently a Pat Cooper in Hostile Witness, the Taggart with the by-election, Bobby Carlyle and more murders than an Eric Saward penned episode of Doctor Who.

To abuse the late Peter Cook: I'd just check my diary, but alas, I appear to be watching TV that night...

Is this a trick question, and its John B. Anderson? I know, I suspect everything's a trick question, its my trusting Scottish nature.

re Pouya's girlfriend.

King Michael, Shashi Kapoor, Christine Keeler, Jenny MacGregor, Johnny Hallyday. Practically a DDP Christmas Carol this week, ghosts of the past, present and (would have been) yet to come...

Du Muoi if not chosen yet, since I have Scottish origins. Not sure that one works...

The subs have been added after the deaths of King Michael and Johnny Hallyday. There's about 30 names separated by 30 points in the 40th-70th position as it stands, so really anyone could yet make the list. As for that A lister I previously mentioned? Picked up 150 points since I said that. Sods law. But just goes to show, even someone with 0 or 1 point right now could still make the list. As Stefan Karl did last year, in fact.

He went to the house of Aleister Crowley and chatted to the Devil about his plans for next year, don't we all? Of course, the Devil is a liar, hence the guy dying in December.