maryportfuncity 10,658 Posted December 21, 2015 Bernard is in radio action over Christmas in a version of Spike Milligan's The Bed Sitting Room So he's obviously still healthy enough for semi-demanding work. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bibliogryphon 9,591 Posted October 30, 2017 I was at London MCM this weekend and saw the end of Bernard's talk. He was witty, alert and even managed an impromptu rendition of Digging a Hole. Not one for 2018. 5 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
msc 18,480 Posted October 30, 2017 1 hour ago, Bibliogryphon said: I was at London MCM this weekend and saw the end of Bernard's talk. He was witty, alert and even managed an impromptu rendition of Digging a Hole. Not one for 2018. Ah good. I know the young ones in the family love Old Jacks Boat (another new-ish Cribbins pre-school show, something like 60 years after his first ones). A few months ago, Dad was over visiting and Old Jack was on Cbeebies. My 'pretends to be far too old to care about celebs' dad stopped mid-sentence to let out a most un-Dad-like excited "Oh, its Cribbins!" Will be a sad one when he goes. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
msc 18,480 Posted December 29, 2017 NOT DEAD Cribbins is 89 today! Also, he's reading the bedtime story on Cbeebies - apparently filmed recently - and looking very good for his age. Heartening to see, I like Bernard Cribbins. 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lord Fellatio Nelson 6,219 Posted December 29, 2017 9 minutes ago, msc said: NOT DEAD Cribbins is 89 today! Also, he's reading the bedtime story on Cbeebies - apparently filmed recently - and looking very good for his age. Heartening to see, I like Bernard Cribbins. Me too, almost in the 'untouchable for DL' mould like Brian Cant. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,068 Posted May 5, 2018 On Pointless Celebrities this evening (recorded last year). Will he go the way of Bill Maynard? Certainly lucid and chatty but wheelchair and fairly gaunt. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,068 Posted December 29, 2018 He's 90 today! From Wombles to Wilfrid, a legend. 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
msc 18,480 Posted December 29, 2018 60+ years as a top level entertainer (and most of that as a kids entertainer, which has a very short lifespan usually). Let's hope the only updates in this thread remain birthdays for a while yet. 7 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Old Crem 3,608 Posted February 19, 2019 https://www.digitalspy.com/tv/a26405236/bernard-cribbins-dads-army-drops-out/ Drops out of Dads Army 'the Lost episodes' project due to 'personal reasons'. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
markb4 902 Posted February 20, 2019 11 hours ago, The Old Crem said: https://www.digitalspy.com/tv/a26405236/bernard-cribbins-dads-army-drops-out/ Drops out of Dads Army 'the Lost episodes' project due to 'personal reasons'. He would have been an interesting Godfrey! 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Paul Bearer 6,110 Posted February 20, 2019 17 hours ago, The Old Crem said: https://www.digitalspy.com/tv/a26405236/bernard-cribbins-dads-army-drops-out/ Drops out of Dads Army 'the Lost episodes' project due to 'personal reasons'. Don't think he's going anywhere yet. (Kiss of death, see Ronnie Biggs thread) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ladyfiona 2,598 Posted April 19, 2020 From Catherine Tate on Twitter when doing a Doctor Who live watch with half the cast of Doctor Who: 6 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lard Bazaar 3,800 Posted April 19, 2020 When a friend was a student nurse, she had a patient who was a neighbour of Bernard Cribbins - the old chap had no other friends or family but Bernard visited him regularly. When the patient died, Bernard sent the nurses a hamper to thank them for their care, but not of chocolates or flowers but of useful things that student nurses of the 1970s needed like tea bags, toiletries and tights. What a jolly good egg. 8 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Deathray 2,941 Posted April 19, 2020 3 minutes ago, Lard Bazaar said: When a friend was a student nurse, she had a patient who was a neighbour of Bernard Cribbins - the old chap had no other friends or family but Bernard visited him regularly. When the patient died, Bernard sent the nurses a hamper to thank them for their care, but not of chocolates or flowers but of useful things that student nurses of the 1970s needed like tea bags, toiletries and tights. What a jolly good egg. There's a sun headline in that if your friend wants the quick cash.... 'Creepy Bernard Cribbin sent hampers of tights to nurses in the 1970s' 1 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
msc 18,480 Posted May 23, 2020 NOT DEAD, DON'T WORRY As none of us watch The One Show on taste reasons, I missed that our Bernard made an increasingly rare TV appearance a few months back to give his reading of a true crime tale. Given his health has allegedly been on the wane, his increasing age and the fact that hes starting to show his age (did the portrait in the attic get damaged?), sharing it here as who knows how much new Bernard Cribbins stuff we've got left... 2 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TQR 14,406 Posted May 23, 2020 Hmm, looks about 15 years older than when I last saw him about 2 years ago. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
msc 18,480 Posted December 29, 2020 NOT DEAD! (Although him trendng on twitter has given folk a few heart attacks, I see...) National treasure (words I never use normally) Bernard Cribbins is 92 today. Here's the BBC tribute to 60+ year of kids entertaining... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
msc 18,480 Posted January 1, 2021 Possibly a good pick, but I'd be very sad if so. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lord Fellatio Nelson 6,219 Posted January 1, 2021 He shouldn't be on here, just shouldn't. Too well loved and to well respected. The bastards! 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Man About The Forum 78 Posted January 1, 2021 He's looking frail but it depends on whether he has a long stretch of frailness towards death or he goes quickly. I don't see him going in 2021 but death's enema waits for nobody. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Imelda 621 Posted January 1, 2021 Seems like a waste of a pick to me beyond him being very old, which seems to be the theme this year. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ali reyad 0 Posted February 5, 2021 juila louis drifous will kill him by not turning off the program for ever Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Joey Russ 7,229 Posted February 5, 2021 1 hour ago, ali reyad said: juila louis drifous will kill him by not turning off the program for ever Think this fails the Turing test if I’m not mistaken 2 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
