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The Dead of 2025
Posted: Thu Jan 02, 2025 12:09 pm
by Elliott Mellor
For discussion of 2025 deaths.
Re: The Dead of 2025
Posted: Thu Jan 02, 2025 2:22 pm
by Marc Meakin
Elliott Mellor wrote: ↑Thu Jan 02, 2025 12:09 pm
For discussion of 2025 deaths.
Can we have an updated dead pool too ?
I'm doing one anyway
Dick Van Dyke
Joe Biden
David Jason
Michael Caine
Gene Hackman
Clint Eastwood
Ringo Starr
Ronnie Wood
Mike Tyson
Paul Gadd
Elon Musk....not natural causes btw
Re: The Dead of 2025
Posted: Fri Jan 03, 2025 5:09 pm
by Jon O'Neill
Must we?
Re: The Dead of 2025
Posted: Fri Jan 03, 2025 6:53 pm
by Gavin Chipper
We must.
Re: The Dead of 2025
Posted: Fri Jan 03, 2025 10:58 pm
by Johnny Canuck
Barbra Streisand is on her way out this year. I call it.
Re: The Dead of 2025
Posted: Sat Jan 04, 2025 4:40 am
by Marc Meakin
Johnny Canuck wrote: ↑Fri Jan 03, 2025 10:58 pm
Barbra Streisand is on her way out this year. I call it.
Based on what ?
I've been reading (OK she's reading it to me ) her autobiography , very interesting read.
Re: The Dead of 2025
Posted: Sat Jan 04, 2025 8:55 pm
by Gavin Chipper
From my original 2017 list I still have:
Michael Schumacher
Cher
Mark Serwotka (some union leader guy)
Brian Blessed
Nigel Farage
Re: The Dead of 2025
Posted: Sun Jan 05, 2025 2:37 pm
by Marc Meakin
Re: The Dead of 2025
Posted: Sun Jan 05, 2025 2:38 pm
by Marc Meakin
Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Sat Jan 04, 2025 8:55 pm
From my original 2017 list I still have:
Michael Schumacher
Cher
Mark Serwotka (some union leader guy)
Brian Blessed
Nigel Farage
Ì might chuck Elon Musk on my list.
Re: The Dead of 2025
Posted: Sun Jan 05, 2025 10:18 pm
by Paul Worsley
The Vivienne RIP. Only 32yo.
We saw him in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang playing The Childcatcher only a few days ago. He was very good too.
Re: The Dead of 2025
Posted: Mon Jan 06, 2025 12:36 am
by Tracey Anne Mills
Robert Wagner
William Shatner
Paul Freeman
Ricky Tomlinson
That is my Dead Pool
Re: The Dead of 2025
Posted: Tue Jan 07, 2025 1:24 pm
by Gavin Chipper
Re: The Dead of 2025
Posted: Tue Jan 07, 2025 6:04 pm
by Marc Meakin
Re: The Dead of 2025
Posted: Wed Jan 08, 2025 9:23 am
by Gavin Chipper
You're a bit slow on that one.
Re: The Dead of 2025
Posted: Wed Jan 08, 2025 11:18 am
by Marc Meakin
Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Wed Jan 08, 2025 9:23 am
You're a bit slow on that one.
Yeah I even read the original post
Brain is scrambled from too much Scrabble
Can I redeem myself by saying Aubrey Plazas husband died Tragically, thou unlike The Vivienne it was self inflicted
Re: The Dead of 2025
Posted: Tue Jan 14, 2025 2:33 pm
by Mark Deeks
Tony Slattery has died. I'm glad he was able to get slightly back out there over the last few years, but his was a tragic life of addiction.
Re: The Dead of 2025
Posted: Tue Jan 14, 2025 3:04 pm
by Gavin Chipper
It was shocking how much he aged given he was only 65.
And even that picture was 2020 I think. You wouldn't necessarily think it was the same person.
Re: The Dead of 2025
Posted: Tue Jan 14, 2025 3:59 pm
by Tracey Anne Mills
Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Tue Jan 14, 2025 3:04 pm
It was shocking how much he aged given he was only 65.
And even that picture was 2020 I think. You wouldn't necessarily think it was the same person.
I remember Tony Slattery on The Krypton Factor in the observation rounds in the 1990s at some point.
Re: The Dead of 2025
Posted: Tue Jan 14, 2025 4:58 pm
by Mark Deeks
He had a horrible abusive childhood, struggled with his sexuality, found fame through trying to channel all that trauma into making people laugh, but succumbed to that fame and the pressures it sought, overworked, burned out, snorted the money away and isolated away with wine bottles. It's a sad story and a sad end, poor guy.
Re: The Dead of 2025
Posted: Tue Jan 14, 2025 6:07 pm
by Marc Meakin
Mark Deeks wrote: ↑Tue Jan 14, 2025 4:58 pm
He had a horrible abusive childhood, struggled with his sexuality, found fame through trying to channel all that trauma into making people laugh, but succumbed to that fame and the pressures it sought, overworked, burned out, snorted the money away and isolated away with wine bottles. It's a sad story and a sad end, poor guy.
You watched the 2020 documentary then?
Very good though the poor fella was unrecognisable in it
Re: The Dead of 2025
Posted: Wed Jan 15, 2025 3:29 pm
by Marc Meakin
Re: The Dead of 2025
Posted: Thu Jan 16, 2025 6:59 pm
by Marc Meakin
Re: The Dead of 2025
Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2025 7:34 pm
by Gavin Chipper
Re: The Dead of 2025
Posted: Sat Jan 18, 2025 11:16 am
by Paul Worsley
Dame Joan Plowright 95. RIP
Re: The Dead of 2025
Posted: Mon Jan 20, 2025 5:39 pm
by Marc Meakin
The death of sane policies in America
Re: The Dead of 2025
Posted: Thu Jan 30, 2025 7:03 pm
by Marc Meakin
Marianne Faithful
Re: The Dead of 2025
Posted: Thu Jan 30, 2025 10:01 pm
by Gavin Chipper
Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Thu Jan 30, 2025 7:03 pm
Marianne Faithful
Reading her obituary on the BBC, I realised I had no idea what she was famous for. I assumed she was a fashion designer or something.
Re: The Dead of 2025
Posted: Fri Jan 31, 2025 8:13 am
by Marc Meakin
Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Thu Jan 30, 2025 10:01 pm
Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Thu Jan 30, 2025 7:03 pm
Marianne Faithful
Reading her obituary on the BBC, I realised I had no idea what she was famous for. I assumed she was a fashion designer or something.
She was famous for the 'Mars Bar' story when I was growing up
Re: The Dead of 2025
Posted: Fri Jan 31, 2025 12:54 pm
by Ian Volante
Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Fri Jan 31, 2025 8:13 am
Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Thu Jan 30, 2025 10:01 pm
Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Thu Jan 30, 2025 7:03 pm
Marianne Faithful
Reading her obituary on the BBC, I realised I had no idea what she was famous for. I assumed she was a fashion designer or something.
She was famous for the 'Mars Bar' story when I was growing up
Which wasn't even true.
Re: The Dead of 2025
Posted: Fri Jan 31, 2025 4:08 pm
by Marc Meakin
Ian Volante wrote: ↑Fri Jan 31, 2025 12:54 pm
Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Fri Jan 31, 2025 8:13 am
Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Thu Jan 30, 2025 10:01 pm
Reading her obituary on the BBC, I realised I had no idea what she was famous for. I assumed she was a fashion designer or something.
She was famous for the 'Mars Bar' story when I was growing up
Which wasn't even true.
Well you wasn't there neither but the copper who saw it must have a very furtive imagination.
I would have said marathon bar myself but that would suggest copraphillia
Re: The Dead of 2025
Posted: Sun Feb 02, 2025 10:06 pm
by Gavin Chipper
Re: The Dead of 2025
Posted: Tue Feb 04, 2025 11:39 am
by Marc Meakin
Re: The Dead of 2025
Posted: Wed Feb 05, 2025 9:13 am
by Marc Meakin
The Aga Khan
Re: The Dead of 2025
Posted: Tue Feb 18, 2025 9:26 pm
by Marc Meakin
Re: The Dead of 2025
Posted: Mon Feb 24, 2025 5:55 pm
by Marc Meakin
Roberta Flack
Re: The Dead of 2025
Posted: Wed Feb 26, 2025 2:19 pm
by Gavin Chipper
Re: The Dead of 2025
Posted: Thu Feb 27, 2025 1:29 am
by Gavin Chipper
Re: The Dead of 2025
Posted: Thu Feb 27, 2025 10:27 am
by Paul Worsley
Gene Hackman RIP
Re: The Dead of 2025
Posted: Thu Feb 27, 2025 10:53 am
by Marc Meakin
Re: The Dead of 2025
Posted: Thu Feb 27, 2025 11:06 am
by Gavin Chipper
Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Thu Feb 27, 2025 10:53 am
And his wife too
Don't forget his dog.
Re: The Dead of 2025
Posted: Thu Feb 27, 2025 2:46 pm
by Marc Meakin
Chris Hughes from Eggheads
Re: The Dead of 2025
Posted: Fri Feb 28, 2025 9:59 am
by Paul Worsley
Boris Spassky, former Chess World Champion RIP
Re: The Dead of 2025
Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2025 10:11 am
by Philip A
Eddie Jordan, former F1 team principal and Top Gear presenter, dies aged 76.
https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/arti ... ZsJtPmC2OT
Re: The Dead of 2025
Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2025 12:47 pm
by Ian Volante
Doug Laughton, one of the most astute sporting minds of the latter part of the 20th century.
Re: The Dead of 2025
Posted: Sat Mar 22, 2025 8:00 am
by Gavin Chipper
George Foreman, famous for boxing and grills. Window cleaner and singer George Formby died in 1961.
Re: The Dead of 2025
Posted: Sat Mar 22, 2025 4:13 pm
by Marc Meakin
Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Sat Mar 22, 2025 8:00 am
George Foreman, famous for boxing and grills. Window cleaner and singer George Formby died in 1961.
Well he may have died but his name will live on az he has severally sons also named George Foreman
Re: The Dead of 2025
Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2025 8:19 am
by Paul Worsley
Val Kilmer, 65 RIP
Re: The Dead of 2025
Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2025 8:54 am
by Marc Meakin
Definitely a Mandela Effect situation.
I was convinced he died in 2022 but it was just his character in Top Gun : Maverick
Re: The Dead of 2025
Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2025 8:28 am
by Philip A
Pope Francis dies aged 88.
Re: The Dead of 2025
Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2025 8:31 am
by Marc Meakin
Philip A wrote: ↑Mon Apr 21, 2025 8:28 am
Pope Francis dies aged 88.
Cardinal Sicola has high hopes to be the new Pope although Coca Cola won't be pleased
Re: The Dead of 2025
Posted: Wed May 21, 2025 12:12 am
by Paul Worsley
George Wendt, actor who played character Norm Peterson in Cheers
"We're not exactly what each other wants in a sexual partner, you know? For example, she wishes I looked a little more like Charles Bronson. And, um, I wished she looked a little less like Charles Bronson."
Re: The Dead of 2025
Posted: Sun May 25, 2025 9:39 pm
by Gavin Chipper
Re: The Dead of 2025
Posted: Mon Jun 09, 2025 5:10 pm
by Gavin Chipper
Frederick Forsyth who wrote The Day of the Jackal, which I coincidentally read a few months ago.
Re: The Dead of 2025
Posted: Mon Jun 09, 2025 5:16 pm
by Marc Meakin
One of the first books I read as an adult.
The Odessa File was my favourite of his.
The film was good too.
I will forgive him his politics
Re: The Dead of 2025
Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2025 8:02 pm
by Gavin Chipper
Re: The Dead of 2025
Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2025 9:45 pm
by Gavin Chipper
Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Mon Jun 09, 2025 5:16 pm
One of the first books I read as an adult.
The Odessa File was my favourite of his.
The film was good too.
I will forgive him his politics
Apparently he wrote The Day of the Jackal in 35 days, so for anyone thinking of writing that first novel, it doesn't have to be that much of a commitment!
Re: The Dead of 2025
Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2025 10:32 am
by Marc Meakin
Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Wed Jun 11, 2025 9:45 pm
Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Mon Jun 09, 2025 5:16 pm
One of the first books I read as an adult.
The Odessa File was my favourite of his.
The film was good too.
I will forgive him his politics
Apparently he wrote The Day of the Jackal in 35 days, so for anyone thinking of writing that first novel, it doesn't have to be that much of a commitment!
Mind you it helped that he worked for the security service.
If I wanted to write a novel in 35 days it would have to involve cycling
Re: The Dead of 2025
Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2025 1:21 pm
by Marc Meakin
Brian Wilson of The Beach Boys
Re: The Dead of 2025
Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2025 3:16 pm
by Gavin Chipper
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Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Thu Jun 12, 2025 1:21 pm
Brian Wilson of The Beach Boys
I suppose I hid it with further conversation about Frederick Forsyth.
Re: The Dead of 2025
Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2025 9:06 am
by Paul Worsley
Kim Woodburn 83 RIP.
"The Queen of Clean"
