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Out of interest, who actually leads if there's a tie between Spade and Bert?

With Elias on the clock, its Spade's to lose now, imo.

Meh, it happens. Live and learn. Well, Bradley wont but you know what I mean!

Possibly only of interest to me and Young Willz (though if he doesn't get a full BBC obit, I'll be having words) but have heard on the ground that the great man John Lambie is seriously ill.

Well in experience, kids are things that arrive on the horizon just as you have your money sorted for the status quo... but, 20 doesn't seem that young, tbh. Old enough for a 4 year wedding anniversary!

Oh great, make me read the fucking Express! Right. Still on medication to keep the pancreatic cancer at bay (they saved him by removing his pancreas and shitloads of other stuff, but the risk of relapse is pretty much constant). Last year, he had a massive stroke. He's heavily diabetic. His balance is permanently fecked from the stroke. Probably not in immediate danger, but he likely wont "make old bones", as folk like to say on here. 66 now, so the clock is ticking...

Since you've posted the thumbnail, here's a pic of a Telegraph obit from 2007... As she is apparently dead, according to Labour folk, I'm going with Crap Research at the Echo for 10...

When I saw it, it appeared to have a photo of Fiona Jones, the late Labour MP, instead of Ms Butler - unless they were twins, of course.

I don't know: Sandi Toksvig might be more chummy to the contestants, but she's just not got the good old atmosphere of a public court martial like the old WGS series did...

Oh, if you must... Old(ish) folk who seem Deathlisty (but haven't been on it): 1917 –Diana Athill 1919 –James Lovelock, 1920 – Michael Anderson (Dam Busters)), Liam Cosgrave, John Paul Stevens, 1921 – Grand Duke Jean of Luxembourg, Carol Channing,Monty Hall 1922 – Lyndon LaRouche, George Blake, 1923 –Roy Dotrice, Glynis Johns, Franco Zeffirelli, Gen. Chuck Yeager, Judith Kerr, Freeman Dyson, Edwin Bramall, Sumner Redstone, 1924 –Eve Marie Saint, William Russell, Christopher Tolkein, Kenneth Kaunda, Tony Britton, Gloria Vanderbilt 1925–David Graham, Barbara Bush, June Whitfield, George A Cooper, Jacques Delors, Bernard Hepton, Mikis Theodorakis, Richard Baker 1926 –, David Attenborough, Mel Brooks, Gudrun Ure, Valery D’Estang, Roger Corman, Stanley Baxter, Glyn Houston, Norman Jewison, Alan Greenspan, Leonard Fenton, Charlotte Rae 1927 – Sidney Poitier, Hubert de Givenchy, Harry Belafonte, Rosalyn Carter, Albert Uderzo, Fenella Fielding, Geoffrey Palmer, June Brown, Ken Dodd, Freddie Jones, Barron Hilton, Jerry Stiller 1928 – Walter Mondale, Desmond Morris, Jim Lovell, Tom Lehrer, Burt Bacharach,, Hans Blix, Ennio Morricone, Noam Chomsky, Mark Eden, Frank Borman, Bernard Cribbins, Tommy Docherty, James Watson, Peter Wyngarde, Peter Firmin, Jean-Marie le Pen, Berry gordy, Monty Norman, 1929 – Patricia Routledge, Len Deighton, Sir Roger Bannister, Max von Sydow, Joseph Jackson, Bob Newhart, Barbara Walters, Bob Hawke, Imelda Marcos,, Stirling Moss, Winnie Ewing, Christopher Plummer, Mohammed Al-Fayed, Betty Boothroyd, Stuart Hall, Peter Higgs, John Nettleton, Rip Torn, Joan Plowright, John Woodvine, Vera Miles, Lennart Johansson, PJ Hammond 1930 – Tippi Hedren, Buzz Aldrin, Gene Hackman, Robert Wagner, Rolf Harris, Clint Eastwood, Ross Perot, Bernie Ecclestone, Warren Buffett, Sister Wendy Beckett, Douglas Hurd, Shirley Williams, Windsor Davies, George Soros, Eileen Derbyshire, Andre previn, Sandra Day O’Connor, 1931 – Robert Duvall, James Earl Jones, Don King, Mikhail Gorbachev, Rupert Murdoch, William Shatner, Norman Tebbit, Jackie Mason, Kenneth Cope, Mario Zagallo, Regis Philbin, Ian Holm, John le Carre, William Goldman, Lionel Blair,Ken Bates, Raul Castro, Michael Lonsdale, Virginia McKenna, Billy Bingham, Brian Glanville, Claire Bloom 1932 –Piper Laurie, Williams, Dennis Skinner ,Bill Roache, Donald Rumsfeld ,Petula Clark, Little Richard, Roy Hattersley,Nigel Lawson, Des O’Connor, Bernard Ingham, 1933– Kim Novak, Yoko Ono, Duchess of Kent, Michael Caine, Ruth Ginsburg, Philip Roth, Willie Nelson, Sian Philips, Joan Collins, Joan Bakewell, Cormac McCarthy, Julie Newmar, Roman Polanski, David McCallum, Michael Hesseltine, Michael Aspel, David Bellamy, Dickie Bird, Derek Martin, Dame Elizabeth Butler-Sloss, Biddy Baxter, Quincy Jones, Dickie Davies, Ron Saunders 1934: Tom Baker, Barry Humphries, Ralph Nader, Annette Crosbie, Shirley MacLaine, Charles Manson, Alan Bennett, Richard Chamberlain, Russ Tamblyn, Eileen Atkins, Jean Marsh, Jonathan Miller, Sophia Loren, Brigitte Bardot, Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Giorgio Armani, George Chakiris, Albert II, Slyvia Sims, Timothy West, Wendy Craig, Jane Goodall, Gloria Steinem, Pat Boone, John Standing, 1935: Julian Glover, Derren Nesbitt, Erich von Daniken, Donald Sutherland, Ron Paul, Jerry Lee Lewis, Julie Andrews, Johnny Mathis, Woody Allen, Jack Charlton, William Freidkin, Topol, Michael Jayston, James Bolam, Johnny Briggs, duke of kent, Barry Cryer, Mahmoud Abbas, Melvyn Hayes, Bamber Gascoigne, Jim Dale, Mary Berry, Michael Eavis, Dalai Lama, 1936 – Alan Alda, Clive Swift, Dean Stockwell, Sepp Blatter, Ursula Andress, FW de Klerk, Engelbert Humperdinck, Albert Finney, Ken Loach, Kris Kirstofferson, Richard Wilson, Robert Redford, John McCain, Dick Cavett, Joe Don Baker, James Burke, Winnie Mandela, Diana Rigg, Bill Wyman, Brian Blessed, Tommy Steele, Uwe Seeler, Glenda Jackson, Pope Francis.

I know what you mean, but LOL at the idea of a 94 year old dude being a shock death anyhow.

If you believe in modern stats coincidences, Honor blackman/Liz Dawn/Leah Bracknell/Betty White/Jill Gascoine will all be dead by January 1st 2019. Cmme very good at sniffing out "soon to be dead" actresses.

According to Wiki, first Bond film not to be based on a Fleming. Cool. Aye, the house was where he shagged other folks wives or something like that.

Also, depends what her doctors told her about the baby's likely survival odds.

I was thinking of the video game. Wasting whole bunch of red shirts with the RCP90. Nice stress relief back in the day. I know there's modern and better examples but I'm bloody out of touch!

He plays at being President as though it's a secret level on GoldenEye.

William G Stewart was shortlisted for 2017 too. Teddy Taylor was on the long list for 2016 but only off one or two lists tops so circa 20 points. But yeah, them's the breaks.

Yeah, I went to edit him too only to see he wasn't on the list. I suppose with thousands of names mentioned on here regularly, and only 50 spots, it's a surprise that doesn't happen more often, tbh.

Was convinced Bettencourt was on the list. As she got axed due to the 25 names from the previous year rule, that'll explain it. Knew one of them would go - sods law. Bettencourt, WGS, Teddy Taylor - what is it with my migraines and a flood of celeb deaths in their wake...

I mean, no offence intended, of course, but I now imagine that even if there was a truly wonderful occasion, TheOldLady would be there to dampen it down. Like, someone's given birth to a new baby child, and there she is, warning about child mortality rates! Or it's a sunny day in the UK, and there's the skin cancer warning!

Sorry to hear about your grandad (RIP), hope your dad and his sister both better soon, good you got to see the Foos again (I missed out on my favourite bands when they were active) and sorry to hear that brother in law (?) you hate hasn't yet been eaten by a crocodile yet. I think thats everything in order, there. Also, cable car? London? What's the point of that!

Not a surprise as I think I mentioned on here a year or two ago he'd looked really frail on something. Beaten by a Maxton. Alas, a money grabbing Maxton. Jimmy would have turned in his grave!

100 (Schmeling in my head) plus 96 (lamotta's "stage age") was closer. But, you know, Maths...

Booth. Sean's not updated us on his whereabouts for a few weeks.

Remember my (only) rule of Deathlist. Never 11 without the 12. There'll be one more hit this year at the very least.