49. Asma al-Assad

[Grim Reaper 209]

The Asma al-Assad thread.

[Zsa Zsa's leg 916]

How ill do we think she is? I was under the impression that it's a serious cancer but that it's not terminal. 

[Stogiagio 42]

Strange pick compared to the rest of the list.

[Surprise Demise 94]

 

1 minute ago, Stogiagio said:

Strange pick compared to the rest of the list.

 

I feel like there's usually at least one person who's singled out as a pick due to becoming widely discussed in December due to their illness. Last year this was Draper; and it obviously worked out for the committee.

 

However, she has plenty reasons to over-exaggerate the severity of her cancer: especially when she's trying to seek refuge in the UK. Maybe I'm being pessimistic, but I think we'll learn in a matter of weeks that a lot of what has been said about her illness has been hyperbole and we'll see hide nor hair of her for the rest of the year.

[Windsor 2,265]

16 minutes ago, Surprise Demise said:

 

 

I feel like there's usually at least one person who's singled out as a pick due to becoming widely discussed in December due to their illness. Last year this was Draper; and it obviously worked out for the committee.

 

However, she has plenty reasons to over-exaggerate the severity of her cancer: especially when she's trying to seek refuge in the UK. Maybe I'm being pessimistic, but I think we'll learn in a matter of weeks that a lot of what has been said about her illness has been hyperbole and we'll see hide nor hair of her for the rest of the year.

 

Alternatively it could be a way for the regime to bump her off before she divorces and presumably attempts to bugger off to Britain. 

[Prophet 256]

Does she even have a cancer recurrence or are these just baseless media rumors? I think Radar Online should have shown us how reliable ,,insiders" and family friends are when it comes to the health problems of celebrities. But hey, if she's in Russia now, she might have luck and could get the same doctor who keeps Putin alive the past ten years, despite his Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, meth addiction, end-stage liver failure due to alcoholism, pancreatic cancer and syphilis.

[Brad252 859]

2 minutes ago, Prophet said:

Does she even have a cancer recurrence or are these just baseless media rumors? I think Radar Online should have shown us how reliable ,,insiders" and family friends are when it comes to the health problems of celebrities. But hey, if she's in Russia now, she might have luck and could get the same doctor who keeps Putin alive the past ten years, despite his Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, meth addiction, end-stage liver failure due to alcoholism, pancreatic cancer and syphilis.

Or alternatively, she could have a "tragic" accident involving a window.

[arghton 7,037]

The original announcement came from the presidency.

[gcreptile 11,299]

Was this the controversial no. 50 before Johnnie Walker died?

I don't believe a word out of Russia. I don't even believe that they always lie, because if I believed that, they would just say the truth and make me think it's a lie. So basically, I just ignore everything coming out of Russia. Maybe I'll be wrong though.

[Fox B 40]

I think this one is fine as a Julie Walters/Ronnie Wood type of pick in the sense that if she sees the year out she should definitely be dropped for 2026.