Sean

They have doing that since his heart surgery in 2011. Plus after the Queen had a cold last month there were loads of articles about what happens when she dies.

I hold my hands up.This was one of my few bad calls.

Latest picture I could find of him from last month.A clear decline has taken place since then.I would have asked for a selfie but would have seemed in too poor taste.

Seeing him today I think he may see 2019.2020 though?No chance.

I wish I was a whore.They earn far more money and get at least a certain degree of job satisfaction.

Clearly an absolute gentleman though despite it all that still shines through.

Barely recognisable.

Saw him today.Clearly treatment has taken a terrible toll.

I got the sense he was embarrassed and shocked I recognised him.

He was absolutely charming and a true gent to me.He was jolly and clearly very happy and content with life and himself. He was clearly incredibly unwell though.

Spoke to him and shook his hand.Was a very modest gent.

He seemed well In himself but was clearly very unwell and his appearance had radically changed.

Bill Turnbull

Happened to bump into and shake the hand of a terminally Ill celebrity tipped for the 2019 Dl.Not convinced they will make it though.Was in a group of people and only I recognised him despite him being a household name.Made me sad to be honest.

The legendary syndicated political columnist Charles Krauthammer has "a few weeks to live" after a recurrence of abdominal cancer first diagnosed in August 2017 that has "spread rapidly".Thought he was famous enough for his own thread.

Now very very obitable.

Neil's death leave Paul Farnes the last survivor.Turns 100 on Monday.

N D Tiwari yesterday

Maybe it is because he is 95 1/2 nearly blind and mentally incapable of running his own affairs without due influence.

Yeah and Leah Is in England not Norway

Bit early bro

Stiles and Wilson are way too ill.Roger Hunt also has Alzheimers.

True.There are 4 older candidates still alive older than Graham and Carrington.Wouk has been on oxygen for at least a year now and Kirk Douglas has looked like death for years.Bush snr has had many health issues of late.McCain and Bracknell are clearly on their way outline Philip isn't about in public these days Stan Lee is clearly frail physically and mentally.Gascoine is by her husbands account in the final brutal stages of dementia.Philips has a long history of I'll health and is very old now.Harper has gone quiet now and James is defying the odds but has a multitude of health issues that make his chances of seeing the year out statistically low.Considering that and the age or frailty of the list I think the committee will do pretty well.Carrington was an outlier of current hits in that he wasn't known to be ill he was simply very old.Even if a couple of the over hundred brigade die this year along with Bracknell and McCain and two of the other names I mentioned plus a few other candidates die the committee will be near the top 5 highest scoring years.I don't think at this point the record will be hit or surpassed this year but there is a decent chance of 12_14 hits by the end of the year.

I reckon the committee should fill his space next year with Douglas Hurd.

Interesting trivia.Was the last minister of Churchill and the last cabinet minister of Heath. Only got a brief news mention despite being Foreign and Defence Secretary and being known for resigning over the Falklands. His daughter was once married to the Uncle of Camilla Parker Bowles.