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Marc Christian, the partner of late acting legend Rock Hudson, has died of a drugs overdose.

Spurs goalkeeper Carlo Cudicini is in hospital with "possibly life-changing" injuries after crashing his motorbike.

...And going back to heroin?

Girija Prasad Koirala has been rushed to hospital after complaining of breathing difficulties and chest pain. He is now in intensive care...

Basketball legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, so famous that even some British people have heard of him, is suffering from leukemia.

Dennis Hopper has revealed he's been suffering from prostate cancer for the last nine years.

American horseracing trainer Bobby Frankel is suffering from an unspecified type of cancer and was too ill to watch three of his horses appear at last weeks Breeders' Cup race. A couple of months ago the same news source said that "he has been dealing with a respiratory illness", helpfully giving us a clue about the nature of his diagnosis and therefore his likely prognosis. I think that he will die quite soon and am pretty confident that he will get a UK obituary.

Golden Girl Rue McClanahan is in hospital suffering from an "acute cardiac illness."

This article in the South African press states that Simon Mann is suffering from cancer. I haven't seen any other stories which suggest this, so it's probably just a misunderstanding. The same article says that Nick Du Toit, the original subject of this thread, has found God.

Pierre Cardin, a dedicated follower of fashion.

Boxing referee Lou Filippo has counted himself out at the age of 83. As well as officiating at many high profile fights in the 80s, he played himself in the Rocky films.

I bet Nick Du Toit is thrilled for him. (edit - that was supposed to be an ironic comment, but I now see he has been pardoned as well)

June Middleton has died.

Nelson Mandela is to withdraw almost entirely from public life, it was announced today, after growing speculation about the 91-year-old's health. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/oct/3...agements-health

Chuck Biscuits lives.

On this day in 1934, silent film star Lou Tellegen stabbed himself to death with a pair of sewing scissors.

Maybe the dreams will stop now. Norman Painting, who played Phil Archer has died. RIP Norman, from an Archers fan.

Test cricket umpire and proud Devonian David Shepherd has declared at the age of 68.

Leading American neo-pagan and occultist Isaac Bonewits is suffering from colon cancer.

Former Manchester United player and a survivor of the Munich air disaster, Albert Scanlon, is critically ill with pneumonia and kidney problems.

Bugger - they were both on my team for next year and I had hoped no one else would pick either of them. *Anorak alert* OoO - I was wondering if the Daily Record be enough for DDP points? And would this BBC page for Dickie Peterson have counted, given that the content is entirely lifted of Wikipedia?

Does anyone else think that Nick Griffin's haircut looks like it has been stolen from a twelve year old boy? I have just seen that Piers Morgan has a programme at the same time on ITV. Not often you have a choice between which odious fat faced piece of sh*t you want to watch. Nick Griffin manages to dupe stupid people who are not necessarily far right supporters by nature. He doesn't mind admitting it either when he thinks nobody but his supporters are watching and, for that reason, I'm not sure he should be allowed on the telly. In fact I'd go further and consider outlawing the BNP altogether. I know that's not very democratic, but I don't see any need to be democratic when dealing with those who preach hate - just as the government obviously believe when they're rounding up the Islamic hate merchants on the other side of the extremist spectrum. I'm surprised that Griffin has agreed to share a platform with a bunch of mainstream, expense-fiddling bandits, but I reckon he's taking a huge risk going on the show tonight. He's going to have such a hard job defending his ridiculous, ill-thought out and nasty policies. Whenever I hear Griffin interviewed, he flounders when faced even with a simple question. I'm backing Jack Straw and Chris Huhne to make him look very silly tonight.

Martin Gardner is 95 today. He's still writing books and publishing puzzles and, sadly for the two teams who picked him on the DDP, he looks fairly unlikely to die before 2010.

Nooooooooooooo. I saw Flowered Up live in Exeter once and they perfectly complimented whatever substances I had been taking that evening. I'm off to find my vinyl single of "Take It" and give it a listen for the first time in well over a decade. RIP Liam

Great Britain's Daniel Keatings won a silver medal last week in the all-round event at the World Gymnastics Championships in London. The man who got the bronze, Russia's Yuri Ryazanov, 22, was killed instantly this morning after his car swerved in to oncoming traffic in Moscow.