Betty Driver Memorial Soapstar Superstar Thread

[JR976evil 905]

9 hours ago, Steve said:

With the sad passing away of Barbara Windsor aka Peggy Mitchell these other former Eastenders characters must also be worth good consideration for DL  - Elizabeth Kelly (Nellie Ellis), Leonard Fenton (Dr Legg), June Brown (Dot Cotton), Bill Treacher (Arthur Fowler), Harry Landis (Felix the Barber), Mona Hammond (Blossom Jackson), Tony Caunter (Roy Evans and of course Pam St Clement (Pat Butcher/Evans). 

Elizabeth Kelly will be 100 next year. Harry Landis guest appeared on Friday Night Dinner a couple of times a few years back and seemed fairly sprightly, a few years can make all the difference though...

[Not Deathers 11]

Johnny Briggs and Eileen Derbyshire might be good shouts. Suspiciously absent from 60th documentaries (well maybe not that suspicious as lot of folk were missing) 

 

Two of the longest serving living actors to have actually left the show and hardly a sign. Also originally was talk of Emily droppingin for the 60th but nothing. 

 

 

[Not Deathers 11]

Also a more long term note. Jack P Shepherd I 32 which means all being well he'll be 72 for the 100th anniversary, quite a realistic possibility of him celebrating both the 40th anniversary and the 120th should the show *touch wood* last that long. 

[Sean 6,310]

9 minutes ago, JR976evil said:

Elizabeth Kelly will be 100 next year. Harry Landis guest appeared on Friday Night Dinner a couple of times a few years back and seemed fairly sprightly, a few years can make all the difference though...

Landis was comedy gold in Friday Night Dinner .One of the few times I have genuinely laughed until I was red in the fae and my sides hurt.

[Sean 6,310]

Danieela Westbrook on Itv news paying tribute to Babs.Looks terrible.Easily looks 60 and her nose looks worse than ever and has moved across her face dramatically

[Not Deathers 11]

Just now, Sean said:

Danieela Westbrook on Itv news paying tribute to Babs.Looks terrible.Easily looks 60 and her nose looks worse than ever and has moved across her face dramatically

 

Yeah but I'm pretty sure bodged plastic surgery isn't terminal in itself. 

[Sean 6,310]

[JR976evil 905]

Just now, Sean said:

Shoulda just said no...

[Not Deathers 11]

3 minutes ago, Sean said:

 

She looks bad but she doesn't look ill at all. 

[Sean 6,310]

2 minutes ago, Not Deathers said:

 

Yeah but I'm pretty sure bodged plastic surgery isn't terminal in itself. 

True but looks more like cocaine than plastic surgery.She has form.Don`t think she has any plastic surgery recently.She has had money troubles for years.Plus if she had definitely ask for your money back.looks like more of her nose has collapsed internally causing it to look like she has walked into a lamp post

[msc 18,436]

iirc Johnny Briggs decided to retire but was still quite active with personal appearances and replying to fan mail. @Ulitzer95 can surely confirm if the latter is still the case on the up to date fanmail forum I forget the name of...

[Not Deathers 11]

3 minutes ago, msc said:

iirc Johnny Briggs decided to retire but was still quite active with personal appearances and replying to fan mail. @Ulitzer95 can surely confirm if the latter is still the case on the up to date fanmail forum I forget the name of...

 

Is this fanmail.biz.

 

If so the personal named address for Johnny Briggs inbox at the talent agency has been reported as RTS but there's a general address for his talent agency?. 

[msc 18,436]

Just now, Not Deathers said:

 

Is this fanmail.biz.

 

If so the personal named address for Johnny Briggs has been reported as RTS but there's a general address for his talent agency?. 

 

That's the one I used to look up but its gone to shit. There's a new one with up to date info, Ulitzer's quoted information from it in the recent past.

[Not Deathers 11]

10 minutes ago, msc said:

 

That's the one I used to look up but its gone to shit. There's a new one with up to date info, Ulitzer's quoted information from it in the recent past.

 

His Startiger was updated in late July with a bought autograph, forums and actual addresses all seem to be behind a membership wall I can't be bothered to penetrate

 

[Slackhurst Broadcasting 374]

57 minutes ago, Sean said:

Yeow! Looks as if Karl Malden donated his nose for a transplant.

 

I remember being in a taxi in 2000 and the radio operator talking to somebody: "When they said 'septum' I knew what they meant, cause that's where I had my operation..."

[Ulitzer95 12,576]

1 hour ago, msc said:

 

That's the one I used to look up but its gone to shit. There's a new one with up to date info, Ulitzer's quoted information from it in the recent past.

As @Not Deathers correctly assumed, it’s StarTiger I’m a member of. I’m staying at a mate’s tonight so will have a look tomorrow when I’m back at my PC.

[Ulitzer95 12,576]

On 11/12/2020 at 23:16, msc said:

iirc Johnny Briggs decided to retire but was still quite active with personal appearances and replying to fan mail. @Ulitzer95 can surely confirm if the latter is still the case on the up to date fanmail forum I forget the name of...

Just checked. According to StarTiger, the last time he was responding to fan mail on there was in 2007!

[gcreptile 10,963]

On 03/07/2020 at 22:04, gcreptile said:

The curse of Home and Away continues as Dee Smart reveals her cancer diagnosis:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-8485725/Home-Away-star-Dee-Smart-discusses-cancer-battle-TV-interview-THREE-decades-soap.html

The curse of Home and Away continues as Mick Innes dies of a lung disease at only 67:

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/home-and-away-actor-mick-innes-dies-140040993.html

[Don'tDroptheSoap 1]

With it being obvious that many here are interested in discussion of soap operas, I took the liberty of setting up a specialist forum for more in depth discussion. Give me something to do with me being unable to hang around here as much. 

 

https://t.co/RuzXMKoyFj?amp=1

 

Obviously pointless if nobody posts on it, but worth a shot.

[YoungWillz 21,024]

Agent for Kay Purcell, who played Cynthia Daggert in Emmerdale, reports her dead:

Looks like it was terminal liver cancer. Big role in Tracy Beaker too.

 

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0700731/

[The Old Crem 3,581]

1 hour ago, YoungWillz said:

Agent for Kay Purcell, who played Cynthia Daggert in Emmerdale, reports her dead:

Looks like it was terminal liver cancer. Big role in Tracy Beaker too.

 

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0700731/

And Waterloo Road. Sad news RIP.

[Predictor 1,018]

On 24/12/2020 at 14:02, YoungWillz said:

Agent for Kay Purcell, who played Cynthia Daggert in Emmerdale, reports her dead:

Looks like it was terminal liver cancer. Big role in Tracy Beaker too.

 

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0700731/

RIP to her. She was originally in my Hare's team, but I (for a reason that I can't recall) replaced her, and a few others, four days later.

[Imelda 620]

On 13/12/2020 at 16:04, Ulitzer95 said:

Just checked. According to StarTiger, the last time he was responding to fan mail on there was in 2007!

 

Lives in Portishead as do my folks. Spotted in the local Waitrose recently so seems fine, the antics of his daughter and granddaughter notwithstanding...

[Thatcher 2,386]

Mark Eden dead age 92. Confirmed as dying early this morning and so perhaps the first possible DDP hit?

 

Obituaries: The Sun, BBC, Daily Mirror

[YoungWillz 21,024]

1 minute ago, Thatcher said:

Mark Eden dead age 92.

First "major" death of 2021 and first to be added to Toby Hadoke's In Memoriam 2021!