msc 18,443 Posted January 1, 2022 Btw, Deathray, since you are passing - that weatherman got over 100 points this time. Somehow! 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
HereIAm 2 Posted January 1, 2022 2 minutes ago, msc said: Btw, Deathray, since you are passing - that weatherman got over 100 points this time. Somehow! 50 from me and 50 from TQR!!! I'm disappointed in the rest of you - all it would have took is another 6 of you in on the joke Maybe we'll get there by the times he's a credible pick.... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TQR 14,391 Posted January 1, 2022 19 minutes ago, msc said: Btw, Deathray, since you are passing - that weatherman got over 100 points this time. Somehow! I knew the people would disappoint. So I built a DDP theme team around him instead. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Old Crem 3,589 Posted January 1, 2022 Is Betty White’s replacement not Barbara Walters? As she would have otherwise been DQ. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,970 Posted January 1, 2022 Monumental work, msc. And I think we can be quite proud of the result. Glad you didn't run away screaming after yesterday's whiteout. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RoverAndOut 4,746 Posted January 1, 2022 4 minutes ago, gcreptile said: Monumental work, msc. And I think we can be quite proud of the result. Glad you didn't run away screaming after yesterday's whiteout. Yep, seconded. Not the New Year's Eve you had planned @msc, but an incredible effort to get stuff done by (or just after) midnight. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
msc 18,443 Posted January 1, 2022 54 minutes ago, The Old Crem said: Is Betty White’s replacement not Barbara Walters? As she would have otherwise been DQ. Yes, although I guess Walters deserved some fortune. At midday yesterday when I started to count up the last day lists, she needed an 150 point swing in her favour to get on the list. She just managed an 160 or so point swing. Prunella Scales tried similar but held off the comeback too long. Imelda Marcos was in the top 20 for so long her last minute crash out of the list entirely took me by surprise. But yes, it was Desmond Tutu's death (as a returnee) which brought the tiebreak in. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Daredevil 1,189 Posted January 2, 2022 Well, it looks like Gary Burgess was hit no. 1 on day no. 1! https://www.itv.com/news/channel/2022-01-02/journalist-gary-burgess-dies-aged-46 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Grim Up North 3,725 Posted January 2, 2022 @msc Could you please send the DDP address the top 20 names on the excel file to save me editing out all the chaff please. Cheers, GUN Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
msc 18,443 Posted January 2, 2022 8 minutes ago, Grim Up North said: @msc Could you please send the DDP address the top 20 names on the excel file to save me editing out all the chaff please. Cheers, GUN Done. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CastAway 488 Posted January 7, 2022 2nd hit with Poitier! 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CastAway 488 Posted February 2, 2022 hit 3, Vitti dead Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
theoldlady 2,300 Posted March 14, 2022 Hit 4, Vic Elford @msc The front page needs updating to show 4 deaths. We are doing a lot better than the Committee so far. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
msc 18,443 Posted March 15, 2022 On 14/03/2022 at 06:50, theoldlady said: Hit 4, Vic Elford @msc The front page needs updating to show 4 deaths. We are doing a lot better than the Committee so far. Yes. Soon. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
msc 18,443 Posted March 15, 2022 BURGESS (NOT SO) MERRY-DEATH 1/50 1st January 2022 ITV regional presenter Gary Burgess celebrated the new years bell by promptly snuffing it to become the first Crowdsourced Deathlist hit of 2022. Burgess had been a popular presenter on BBC Radio Guernsey before joining the ITV staff in Jersey, and becoming a regular columnist for The Jersey Evening Post. He became popular with deathlisters in 2020 when he announced his battle with terminal cancer, which grew worse throughout 2021. However he remained much loved in the Channel Islands, and shortly before his death he was awarded the Silver Seal award for island contributions by the Bailiff of Jersey, Timothy Le Cocq. Gary Burgess was 46 years old and making his debut in 50th place on the list. In fact, he knocked Marsha Hunt off the list on the final day by the "picked on most lists" tiebreaker. Only the 2nd time in 7 years that was ever needed, fact fans. 7 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
msc 18,443 Posted March 15, 2022 THEY CALL ME MR DEATH 2/50 6th January 2022 Sidney Poitier, justly regarded as one of the all time Hollywood greats, has received the final curtain call, aged 94. Born in Florida, he moved to New York aged 16 to avoid southern racism, a subject he would later criticise on screen. A Broadway debut in his early 20s led to his role as a campaigner for civil rights in the arts, which led to him being blacklisted for (alleged) Communist sympathies. This only slightly held back a burgeoning film career, which saw him win a BAFTA in 1958 for his performance alongside Tony Curtis in The Defiant Ones, and he continued on an acclaimed stage career. But he is best known for his blockbuster films of the 1960s. Lilies of the Field is the lesser of four, but it did make Poitier the first black actor to win the Oscar for Best Actor. To avoid being typecast, he immediately signed up for The Bedford Incident. In 1967, he appeared in 3 of the biggest films of the 60s in one year. In Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, he took on middle class casual racism and won the heart of his fiancée's parents. For In The Heat of the Night, he took on small town racism, solved a crime in rural southern America, and famously slapped that racist guy really hard in the face. His most difficult task, however, was To Sir With Love, in which he was stuck having to listen to Lulu singing for hours. Two of those films remain great, and Poitier had shattered the glass ceilings that were in his way. He became a director, and won Honorary Oscars, and grow gracefully into becoming one of the grand elders of acting. Sidney Poitier had been picked six times for the Crowdsourced Deathlist, appearing every year since 2017. 7 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
msc 18,443 Posted March 15, 2022 KILL HER QUICK 3/50 2nd February 2022 Italian actress Monica Vitti has died to give The Crowdsourced Deathlist another success. Vitti was best known for her roles in long time partner Michelangelo Antonioni films such as La Notte, and L’Ecclise, the latter of which she appeared alongside future TCD alumnus Alain Delon. In 2011 it was revealed she had been suffering from Alzheimer's since the 1990s. This was her 4th appearance on the list. 5 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
msc 18,443 Posted March 15, 2022 VIC-KY WICKET 4/50 13th March 2022 Former English racing driver Vic Elford has died after a long battle with cancer. Elford was an accomplished multi-purpose race driver with records in rally and in Formula 1, and he won the 1967 European Rally Championship. In 1968 he won the Monte Carlo Rally and the 24 Hours Daytona in consecutive weeks. He competed in the Le Mans race eight times, and was considered one of its most dogged competitors. Later he competed in NASCAR, saying that if drove, he could race it. However, if he was respected for his skills, it was for his humanity he won even more plaudits, stopping his racing car in the Le Mans race in 1972 to try and save two drivers from a fiery crash. The announcement of ill health in early 2021 gave him a Crowdsourced Deathlist debut, and it is perhaps the last telling fact that Vic Elford lasted over a year in hospice care with lung cancer aged 86. 6 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
theoldlady 2,300 Posted April 4, 2022 June Brown and Tom Parker gives us 6 hits now. @msc (Thanks Esox!) 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Esox masquinongy 19 Posted April 5, 2022 We're actually up to 6 with Tom Parker's passing 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
theoldlady 2,300 Posted April 6, 2022 Tom Smith is the 7th hit for us. @msc 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
msc 18,443 Posted April 9, 2022 ANOTHER WANTED HIT 5/50 30th March 2022 Rather sobering, pop singer Tom Parker has become the latest Crowdsourced Deathlist hit at the age of only 33. Parker was lead singer of The Wanted, a popular boy band at the turn of the last decade who had two quick UK number ones in succession, the titles of which both seem to foretell the pain his legions of fans are currently undergoing: Glad You Came and All Time Low. A string of top ten hits followed before the band broke up in 2014. Post-Wanted, he appeared on Celebrity Masterchef and oddball Channel 4 variety show The Jump, and made the semi-finals of both competitions. However in 2020, he was diagnosed with the dreaded glioblastoma. A comeback with The Wanted was cut short by the cancer. Tom Parker’s fame touched a generation younger than mine, but the sadness of a young man dying resonates with all, as do the tributes from millions of young fans on social media. After his death, an episode of Pointless Celebrities was shown, filmed late last year. In it, a clearly frail Tom Parker teamed up with one of his band mates, Max, to successfully win the £2500 jackpot and donate it to brain cancer charities. If you can judge someone on how they react facing the undiscovered country, then Tom Parker faced his trying to help other people live. 9 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
msc 18,443 Posted April 9, 2022 AFTER THE YEAR DOT 6/50 3rd April 2022 When she was a teenager, June Brown visited a palm reader. The fortune teller told a sceptical June that she would live to a grand old age, but suffer a personal tragedy when she turned 30. June Brown, who has died aged 95, was to prove that old woman correct on both counts. A Suffolk lass, she served in the Wrens during WW2 before training to become an actress at the Old Vic. Considered a talent from early on, she worked with the Royal Shakespeare Company throughout the 1950s, as well as appearing in the West End, touring Rebecca and The Lion in Winter. She was especially credited for her performances as Lady MacBeth. It was while acting on stage she met her husband John Garley. They married in 1950, but their marriage struggled with Garley’s depression, and he killed himself in 1957, when June was 30. Despite her best efforts to revive him, Brown would blame herself for her first husband’s death for the rest of her life. She married again, to actor Robert Arnold, and they had six children before she was widowed for the second time in 2003. She became a TV regular in the 1970s, appearing in the doomsday TV series Survivors, the cult soap Angels, and various Plays for Today. She was a semi-regular in The Duchess of Duke Street, and appeared in many of your favourite Britbox finds: Shades of Darkness, Crown Court and even a short turn in Coronation Street. (And in later life, Gormenghast!) In film, she appeared in Murder by Decree and Psychomania. And yes, she had her obligatory Doctor Who appearance, in the Jon Pertwee serial The Time Warrior. Her talents were openly admired, from Barry Letts to Harold Pinter. However, as she approached her 60s, June Brown found that there were fewer roles on TV for a woman of her age. In her own words, she need a miracle, and that miracle arrived in the form of an ex-con turned actor. Leslie Grantham had worked on stage with Brown and, when he asked if he knew anyone who could play a new short term role on Eastenders as Nasty Nick’s mum, he suggested Brown. She was offered a 3 month contract, with guaranteed money, and while she thought it’d be a short term respite, she said it would help her avoid bankruptcy. That short term role went on for the best part of 30 years. As Dot Cotton, June Brown became more famous and more well off than she’d managed through three decades of theatre acclaim. The character started off far more harsher than her public image nowadays: as the local busybody with a touch of the Bible bashing bigot to her, the original Dot Cotton was a horror. Her mellowing out into being the kindly old agony aunt of the Street became so iconic that going back to earlier episodes, when, for example she condemned Mark Fowler’s HIV status, are often cited as unexpectedly shocking to younger fans. The real life June Brown began to blend into the character more, though. Whilst Dot had started intolerant, June Brown was an out and out ally of her LGBT friends, going on marches to denounce Section 28 and demand better treatment for AIDS sufferers. After her early tragedy, she was unsurprisingly a big supporter of mental health charities, and paid for several peoples addiction therapy, including Pete Doherty of The Libertines! June Brown left Eastenders several times, but the siren call of Dot Cotton proved too irresistible to refuse. It was, as she said, the role that had changed her life for the better. She became popular with even younger fans with appearances alongside Lady Gaga on The Graham Norton Show. And despite increasing frailty in her 90s, she still managed to make the odd TV appearance. Usually as Dot Cotton. Chain smoking June Brown was one of the most popular actresses in the UK, among the industry and TV audiences. Her talents, which once far surpassed her acclaim, finally saw their proper credit in the second half of her life with a TV icon. Aged 80, she was tasked with being the first person on British TV to act out an episode of a soap solo, as a 30 minute monologue. Not only did June Brown smash it, she was nominated for the BAFTA for it. An acting genius (to quote Harold Pinter), who used her fame to help countless others at their lowest points, we are saddened to note the death of the wonderful June Brown, aged 95. 9 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
msc 18,443 Posted April 9, 2022 THE LION SLEEPS TONIGHT 7/50 6th April 2022 Yes, damn that Death Impends for getting to the headline first, but sod it... Popular Scottish rugby legend Tom Smith has died, aged 50, after a long and well documented battle with Stage IV cancer. Smith's professional career started in the 90s at Caledonia Reds and he experienced the league mergers that brought Glasgow Warriors into being. In 2001, he moved to the Northampton Saints, and was a pivotal part of the team which reached 3 Heineken Cup quarterfinals. (The Champions League, for rugby union.) However, it was as captain of the Scottish rugby team that Smith won his highest acclaim. A talismanic figure to fans and an inspirational one to teammates, he was the driving force behind Scotland winning the (then) Five Nations in 1999. He also led his country at two World Cups. In 1999, Smith's Scotland lost 30-18 to New Zealand in a battling performance in the Quarterfinals. In 2003, he was one of the few reliable names in a much weakened Scotland squad, not expected to last in the competition, but he dragged the team by sheer force of will, and scored the pivotal try that took Scotland into the Quarterfinals once more. There, hosts Australia proved a bridge too far and that was Tom Smith's final World Cup appearance. His ability was also noted internationally in that he became the first Scottish rugby player in history to be selected for six consecutive Lions tours. At this time, he was named by the world rugby authorities are being on the World first XV, the best players in the world. On retiring he worked as a coach for Lyon. A shy man who preferred to do his talking on the pitch, Tom Smith was diagnosed with cancer in 2019. He was inducted into the rugby hall of fame last year. 9 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bibliogryphon 9,579 Posted May 9, 2022 George Perez is number 8 here but not one of those was in the top ten most popular picks 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
