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27 Dec 14
22:54
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The only ever time i was saddened by a death that was not family was of Robin Williams, a genius.
Robin Williams
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Shirley Temple
Peaches Geldof
Sir Bob Hoskins
Rik Mayall
Lauren Bacall
Richard Attenborough
Joan Rivers
Lynda Bellingham
I never get sad over people that have had a life, its the people/kids that die so young that gets to me. The above have had a decent life and entertained us.
Robin Williams
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Shirley Temple
Peaches Geldof
Sir Bob Hoskins
Rik Mayall
Lauren Bacall
Richard Attenborough
Joan Rivers
Lynda Bellingham
I never get sad over people that have had a life, its the people/kids that die so young that gets to me. The above have had a decent life and entertained us.
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f uck me that's news to me, I never knew bob hoskins died, never knew he was a sir either, that nulls it a bit for me, people who accept titles to elevate themselves above others in society deserve to be frowned upon
but WTF makes a charity muggers drugged up daughter a 'star' exactly eh? what did she do apart from follow in her mothers tragic footsteps and leave behind a couple of sprogs without a mum |
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I may have added the sir bit
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just watching joan rivers now on itv, very very funny , never realised she was this good
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she was brutal and very dark for a female.
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compared to the so called comedians on that john bishop xmas show, this lady is a comic genius, ist time ive seen her proper, so sharp
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i rarely hand out praise lightly as most famous people are overrate gobshytes, but agree Robin Williams, for a yank, was a class act, did any of you hear that great big fat dope alan brazil saying he was selfish for topping himself and thanking god it wasn't robbie williams FFS, I despair at how people like him get cushy jobs
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yep, heard that sh1t.
Robin William was a freak of talent. These bullsh1t comedians that the bbc project art not even toilet cleaners.  |
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I'm glad Joan Rivers died instead of Robbie Williams. And I fookin' hate Robbie Williams!
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this audience with joan rivers is brilliant
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joan was a funny lady, and their about 10
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10 yrs ago this 1st shown ? Lynda Bellingham just been on as well rip
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Many of you wouldn't have heard of but BBC Radio Ulster's Gerry Anderson's death brought a lump to my throat. In our darkest times he brought a smile to both sides of the conflict. He lived in (London)Derry but he called it Stroke City. He was a great man that will be sorely missed.
Ditto to some of the comments above. Rik Mayall deserves some credit for a new age of comedy I grew up with. |
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Tony Benn for me. And I am right wing as well. A titan of all the politicians. When someone leaves us all the knowledge goes with them though i could be confident in his case that he had done as much as he could to impart his knowledge. I, for one, was very sad on his passing
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It's all very sad when the stars begin to lose their twinkle one by one, the universe will eventually be made up of nothing but the dark and cold corpses.
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Eli Wallach, died in June aged 98. I don't know whether he was a great actor or not but always liked him in things.
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peaches geldof a star?
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white dwarf perhaps ?
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Just seen Jimmy Ruffin died last month
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Pumphol I think Ibrahima might be a racist as he's only put white people in his list, there must have been loads of famous black people who died last year, don't let his name fool you.
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Peaches Geldof ???? but for the news coverage , I would not have known what she did .
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it was a copy and paste job
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Roy Castle
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you missed a few
Terry Biddlecombe Phil Everly Eusebio Alexander Bastedo Bobby Collins Sir Christopher Chataway Graham Stevenson (Yorkshire and England cricketer) didn't know about him :-( and that's just January |
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any cats in the list?
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Richard Cattenborough
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Sir Bob Pusskins
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Alexander Bastedo with a cat. Bless her
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Phil Sharpe the Yorkshire cricketer of the 1960s, one of the best slip fielders ever
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Indeed 'jon, I remember him well and saw him several times. What a team we had back then.
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fantastic film of an Ashes Test in 1964, which includes Phil.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uWREaoX0aM |
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...and the summer that Sir Fred took his 300th wkt. Shame he only played 70 Tests (due to the southern turds)
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Aye, my brother in laws brother played for a season for Yorkshire in 1959 and opened the bowling with Freddie Trueman before injury cut short a promising career. Christopher Harland -Wood was his name.
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Fred destroying Australia and West Indies
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he would have rubbed shoulders with a few decent players, bob appleyard, len hutton of course
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Saw FST in a bar off Fleet Street many years back -- must have been down for one of the papers.
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My mum worked with Len Hutton's brother at Crofts in Bradford. Got his autograph. Len, not his brother.
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Phillip Hughes.
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Norman Cornish, who had a couple of portraits on Antiques Roadshow yesterday.
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I hope you all joined the Facebook campaign in honour of Linda Bellingham, who wanted to make it to Christmas, by hanging an Oxo cube on your xmas tree.
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