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Only one person left from British light entertainment's finest hour.

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6 minutes ago, msc said:

One of the ten teams scoring with Lionel Blair is @Rotten Ali, who is back in the DDP after an absence. Which is nice.

RA is a dead pooling legend that even Mary doffs his cap to.

The man is meticulous!

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I believe there's a Half Man Half Biscuit thread in need of updating

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5 minutes ago, Lord Fellatio Nelson said:

I wouldn't say that Steele was the all round entertainer that Blair was or anywhere close to having the kind of celebrity status that Blair had with the public.

The other one of the era that springs would be Jim Dale -he’s still around presumably?

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Tom O'Connor was the first presenter of Name That Tune, and he died in July. Jools Holland may want to watch his back.

Genuinely surprised that Lionel Blair was never honoured. Lots of pics of him on the news obituaries of him meeting the Queen on various occasions.

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8 minutes ago, MadMac said:

The other one of the era that springs would be Jim Dale -he’s still around presumably?

Yep, he is 86.

IIRC, he has lived in the US for years now.

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4 minutes ago, Ulitzer95 said:

Tom O'Connor was the first presenter of Name That Tune, and he died in July. Jools Holland may want to watch his back.

Genuinely surprised that Lionel Blair was never honoured. Lots of pics of him on the news obituaries of him meeting the Queen on various occasions.

Perhaps he always declined.

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He was the first contestant from the Real Marigold Hotel series to die.

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23 minutes ago, Lord Fellatio Nelson said:

RA is a dead pooling legend that even Mary doffs his cap to.

The man is meticulous!

 

 

Hell yeah, a living legend, or summat!

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8 minutes ago, The Old Crem said:

He was the first contestant from the Real Marigold Hotel series to die.

 

Yes, somehow Miriam Margoyles is still with us, despite looking half-dead in every interview...

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35 minutes ago, Bentrovato said:

ISIHAC are now scrambling for something big to fill his place

 

 

There's always Biggins.

I feel strangely saddened by Lionel's demise, don't know why.      

  

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I never knew Joan Collins used to be his girlfriend? According to an old article  I just read  she dated him just before she left the UK for Hollywood. 

I knew he was in her circle of british showbiz friends  along with Cliff Richard, Gloria Hunniford, Christopher Biggins, Shirley Bassey, Cilla Black, Barbara Windsor etc  but not that they were exs. 

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It looks like that buttfucker Kenny actually got one right fo a change.

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1 hour ago, Gooseberry Crumble said:

I never knew Joan Collins used to be his girlfriend? According to an old article  I just read  she dated him just before she left the UK for Hollywood. 

I knew he was in her circle of british showbiz friends  along with Cliff Richard, Gloria Hunniford, Christopher Biggins, Shirley Bassey, Cilla Black, Barbara Windsor etc  but not that they were exs. 

That's a pretty Right wing group of people 

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Always surprised he didn't actually murder Noel Edmonds on that Gotcha!

 

Anyway, Grim Reaper awards him a further lifetime achievement Gotcha.

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41 minutes ago, Deathrace said:

That's a pretty Right wing group of people 

Cliff probably voted Labour back when Blair wa slender as they quite friendly.

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1 hour ago, The Old Crem said:

Cliff probably voted Labour back when Blair wa slender as they quite friendly.

I'm pretty sure Cilla voted for Labour under Blair once or twice  but not  Gordon Brown or  Ed Milliband. 

She was friendly with Cherie Blair.

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On 07/01/2021 at 16:25, YoungWillz said:

On the Beeb News Channel, glorying in receiving his second vaccine dose...

 

13 hours ago, The Old Crem said:

Dead

RIP..

 

Anti vaxxer wet dream.

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Unlike the good-natured joshing of Des O'Connor by Morecambe & Wise ( eg Deaf O'Connor, etc), the jokes at Blair's expense by Humphrey Littelton were personally very upsetting to Blair. When Littlelton died in 2008, Blair began using this statement whenever he was asked about Littelton. "I was told to only speak good of the dead. Littelton is dead. Good."

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