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The 2018 Celebrity Death Cull Thread

Let the games begin.

Published by bigmal at 5:55pm on Sun 31st December 2017. Viewed 7,415 times.

John Young, astronaut, went to the moon twice.

Published by Silent Rob at 5:23am on Sun 7th January 2018.

Ray Thomas Moody Blues' flautist

Published by nuttyprof at 7:24am on Mon 8th January 2018.

Tony Hart

Published by Silent Rob at 3:12pm on Mon 8th January 2018.

LOL

Published by B-bam at 5:27pm on Mon 8th January 2018.

Dolores O'Riordan from the Cranberries.

Published by Silent Rob at 5:57pm on Mon 15th January 2018.

Peter Wyngarde, played baddies in everything from Flash Gordon to The Avengers. Played number two in the Prisoner and was in Dr Who in 1984.

Published by Silent Rob at 7:39am on Thu 18th January 2018.

Paul Bocuse top french 3 star Micheline chef.

Published by bigmal at 3:29pm on Sat 20th January 2018.

Simon Shelton, played Tinky Winky in Teletubbies.

The Teletubbies appeared in Doctor Who in 2007, albeit The Master watching them on TV.

Published by Silent Rob at 11:39am on Tue 23rd January 2018.

Ken Dodd' died

Published by bigmal at 5:12pm on Tue 23rd January 2018.

No he didn't. But Bella Emberg sadly did.

*Edited, as blimmin' predictive text had given her a different name!

Published by MissRegaling at 10:49pm on Tue 23rd January 2018.
This reply has been edited, last edit at 10:51pm on Tue 23rd January 2018.

yours meant to say "did he ".

Published by bigmal at 3:47am on Wed 24th January 2018.

Ursula Le Guin

Published by Silent Rob at 5:18am on Wed 24th January 2018.

Whispers ......someone say did he

Published by bigmal at 12:32pm on Wed 24th January 2018.
This reply has been edited, last edit at 12:32pm on Wed 24th January 2018.

Hugh Masekela

Published by bad-timing at 7:55pm on Wed 24th January 2018.

Mark E Smith :-(

Published by bad-timing at 7:56pm on Wed 24th January 2018.

John Mahoney, thingy from Frasier.

Published by Silent Rob at 4:49am on Tue 6th February 2018.
This reply has been edited, last edit at 4:50am on Tue 6th February 2018.

John Perry Barlow

Published by andy_landy at 2:01pm on Sat 10th February 2018.

rosie-the-riveter

Naomi Parker Fraley, famous as the face of Rosie the Riveter.

Published by Wrongfellow at 1:09am on Wed 14th February 2018.

Klaasje van der Wal, bass player of Shocking Blue.

Published by Silent Rob at 5:06am on Thu 15th February 2018.

Judy Blame

Published by space_echo at 2:01pm on Wed 21st February 2018.

Billy Graham

Published by space_echo at 2:02pm on Wed 21st February 2018.

Billy Graham

Published by bigmal at 7:11pm on Thu 22nd February 2018.

Emma Chambers, the dense one in the Vicar of Dibley. Terribly young at 53.

Published by Silent Rob at 5:05pm on Sat 24th February 2018.

Emma Chambers

Published by bigmal at 6:50pm on Sun 25th February 2018.

Tony Hart.

Published by Wrongfellow at 11:52pm on Sun 25th February 2018.

Lol!

Published by Silent Rob at 4:52am on Mon 26th February 2018.

Bastard never put my work in the gallery.

Published by Silent Rob at 4:53am on Mon 26th February 2018.

Peter Miles, bloody fantastic actor. Appeared in Blake's 7, Survivors, Z Cars and has been in Doctor Who three times, including in Gensis of the Daleks.

Published by Silent Rob at 4:52am on Wed 28th February 2018.

Sir Roger Bannister.

Published by space_echo at 1:10pm on Sun 4th March 2018.

Trevor Baylis, inventor chap.

Published by Silent Rob at 3:51pm on Mon 5th March 2018.

Trevor Baylis invented the clockwork radio.

Published by bigmal at 8:25pm on Wed 7th March 2018.

the nme

Published by andy_landy at 10:35pm on Wed 7th March 2018.

Ken Dodd died did he?

Appeared in Dr Who in 1987, rather inexplicably.

Published by Silent Rob at 4:52am on Mon 12th March 2018.

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The Diddy Men will be next

Published by Priority 23 at 12:11pm on Mon 12th March 2018.

Kee Dodds died

Did he
No Doddy

Published by bigmal at 2:21pm on Mon 12th March 2018.

Stephen Hawking

Published by Silent Rob at 4:40am on Wed 14th March 2018.

Stephen Hawking... Mind you all they'll have to do is re-boot him.

Published by bigmal at 8:11am on Wed 14th March 2018.

jim bowen

Published by andy_landy at 1:24pm on Wed 14th March 2018.

Jim Bowen.

Published by bigmal at 3:58pm on Wed 14th March 2018.

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"what, you mean that wheel chair guy".....?

Published by Priority 23 at 9:22am on Thu 15th March 2018.

Katie Boyle

Agony aunt

Dear Katie I canny shut that B-Bam up etc etc

Published by bigmal at 5:49pm on Wed 21st March 2018.

Charles Lazarus, founder of Toys-R-No-Longer-Us.

Published by Wrongfellow at 4:50am on Fri 23rd March 2018.

Bill Maynard

Published by bigmal at 5:37pm on Fri 30th March 2018.

Oskar Gröning The bookkeeper of Auschwitz.

Decades later, when he heard people denying the Holocaust had ever happened, he was moved to break his silence. He was one of very few former concentration camp guards to do so.

"I saw the gas chambers. I saw the crematoria," he told the BBC in the 2005 documentary Auschwitz: the Nazis and the "Final Solution".

Published by bigmal at 12:01pm on Sun 1st April 2018.

Steven Bochco. "Let's be careful out there".

Published by space_echo at 10:15am on Mon 2nd April 2018.

Winnie Mandela

Published by MissRegaling at 3:55pm on Mon 2nd April 2018.

Ray Wilkins.

Published by bigmal at 6:40am on Thu 5th April 2018.

Eric Bisto

Published by B-bam at 2:06am on Fri 6th April 2018.

Eric Bristow

Published by bigmal at 1:40pm on Fri 6th April 2018.

Barbara Bush.

Remember when we thought that GW Bush was as bad as presidents got?

Published by Silent Rob at 5:33am on Wed 18th April 2018.

Barbara Bush

Published by bigmal at 1:22pm on Wed 18th April 2018.

Dale Winton

Published by MissRegaling at 9:52pm on Wed 18th April 2018.

fuck me Dale Winton...

Published by bigmal at 1:17am on Thu 19th April 2018.

I don't know how we missed this one

Lee Ermey

"I will suck out your eye balls and skull fuck you"....

Published by bigmal at 5:41pm on Fri 20th April 2018.

VerneTroyer

Published by MissRegaling at 10:10pm on Sat 21st April 2018.

Michael Martin

Published by bigmal at 9:21pm on Mon 30th April 2018.

Diana Dors

Published by bigmal at 5:47pm on Fri 4th May 2018.

^ she is dead, but she died in 1984.

Published by Silent Rob at 5:51am on Sat 5th May 2018.

Aye............. on May the 4th

Published by bigmal at 12:34pm on Sat 5th May 2018.

May the forth be with you.

Published by Silent Rob at 3:45pm on Sun 6th May 2018.

A bit late for that fannybaws

Published by bigmal at 1:37am on Tue 8th May 2018.

Tessa Jowell

Published by bigmal at 12:32pm on Sun 13th May 2018.

Glen Branca.

Published by Silent Rob at 4:55am on Tue 15th May 2018.

Margot Kidder.

Published by Silent Rob at 4:55am on Tue 15th May 2018.

Tom Wolfe.

Published by Silent Rob at 5:18am on Wed 16th May 2018.

Alan Bean, Apollo astronaut. Now there are only four people who walked on the moon still alive.

Published by Silent Rob at 9:04am on Sun 27th May 2018.

As if that ever happened?????

Published by bigmal at 12:59pm on Mon 28th May 2018.

Was waiting for you Mal!

Published by Silent Rob at 5:15am on Wed 30th May 2018.

Jonathan Lupton, singer of Jonathan Fire*Eater.

Published by Silent Rob at 5:27am on Wed 30th May 2018.

Josh Martin, guitarist from Anal Cunt, had died in an "escalator accident". Now THERE'S a sentence.

Published by Silent Rob at 5:30am on Wed 30th May 2018.

Peter Stringfellow

Published by bigmal at 7:25pm on Thu 7th June 2018.

Oh no..... Anthony Bourdain

Apparent suicide aged 61.... A hero of mine

Published by bigmal at 12:47pm on Fri 8th June 2018.

Leslie Grantham. Appeared in Doctor Who in 1984. Might have been in other things too, but who cares about that.

Published by Silent Rob at 1:16pm on Fri 15th June 2018.

Dirty Den A.K.A Lesley Crowler

Published by bigmal at 5:46pm on Fri 15th June 2018.

Matt ‘guitar’ Murphy

Very annoying playing style

Published by bigmal at 10:08am on Tue 19th June 2018.

Koko the gorilla

Published by bigmal at 9:04pm on Fri 22nd June 2018.

Joe Jackson.

Published by Silent Rob at 6:01am on Thu 28th June 2018.

really? blimey.

Published by sam i at 2:31pm on Fri 29th June 2018.

Peter Firmin, creator of Bagpuss.

See threads passim for details of my deep magical connection to Bagpuss.

Published by Wrongfellow at 6:03pm on Sun 1st July 2018.

^^^ details

Published by bigmal at 6:21pm on Tue 3rd July 2018.

Richard swift from the Black Keys and Alan Longmuir from the Bay City Rollers.

Published by Silent Rob at 5:43pm on Thu 5th July 2018.

I remember wearing shirts with tartan shoulders.....shudddddders

Published by bigmal at 4:55pm on Fri 6th July 2018.

steve ditko, co-creator of spiderman and doctor strange

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/steve-ditko-dead-spider-...

Published by andy_landy at 4:13pm on Sat 7th July 2018.

Clive King, wrote Stig of the Dump.

Published by Silent Rob at 5:42am on Sat 14th July 2018.

Nancy Sinatra

trivia - the song "These boots were meant for walking" was used by the FBI/ATF to traumatise members of the Branch Davidians in Waco Texas.

Published by bigmal at 7:33pm on Sat 14th July 2018.

Geoffrey Wellum, Battle of Britain pilot. Very good autobiography (and film) first light.

Published by Silent Rob at 5:56am on Fri 20th July 2018.

Published by Wrongfellow at 4:53pm on Thu 26th July 2018.

Adrian Cronauer Gooooooooooodmorning Vietnam DJ

Published by bigmal at 12:18am on Sat 28th July 2018.

Barry Chuckle, half of the Chuckle Brothers.

Published by Silent Rob at 2:33pm on Sun 5th August 2018.

Barry Chuckle

Published by bigmal at 2:48pm on Sun 5th August 2018.

RIP Demmy James?

Published by nuttyprof at 10:56am on Wed 15th August 2018.

Aretha Franklin

Published by bigmal at 10:43pm on Thu 16th August 2018.

Indeed nuttyprof RIP Demmy. He was one of the first good guys I met in Cambridge over 20 years ago.

Published by bigmal at 3:47am on Fri 17th August 2018.

I was hoping someone was going to tell me it wasn't true!

Published by nuttyprof at 5:25am on Fri 17th August 2018.

PM me if you want to chat

Published by bigmal at 1:13pm on Fri 17th August 2018.

Kofi Annan

Published by nuttyprof at 7:07am on Sun 19th August 2018.

Do you mean this guy? http://www.wereallneighbours.co.uk/profiles/?sv=default&id=5562

I'm not sure what to do about profiles of dead people. I don't think anyone else on the Internet is, either.

Also: Bastard never put my work in the gallery.

Published by Wrongfellow at 1:41pm on Mon 20th August 2018.

Yep that's Demmy. Josie, also mentioned in his bio, also sadly no longer with us.

Published by MissRegaling at 6:32pm on Mon 20th August 2018.

Demmy funeral 7 Sept Crematorium 15:45

Published by bigmal at 4:08pm on Fri 24th August 2018.

Jacqueline Pearce, regular in Blake's 7, appeared in Dr Who and loads more.

Published by Silent Rob at 5:50am on Tue 4th September 2018.

Burt Reynolds.

Published by Wrongfellow at 9:24pm on Thu 6th September 2018.

Burt Reynolds

Published by bigmal at 12:45am on Fri 7th September 2018.

Liz Fraser, appeared in a million films wth Tony Hancock and Carry
On films and similar.

Not the singer of the Cocteau Twins, who is still alive.

Published by Silent Rob at 5:32am on Fri 7th September 2018.
This reply has been edited, last edit at 5:34am on Fri 7th September 2018.

Chas Hodges of Chas'n'Dave.

Published by MissRegaling at 1:34pm on Sat 22nd September 2018.

Chas Hodges one half of Chas and Dave.

Published by bigmal at 2:30pm on Sat 22nd September 2018.

Published by Wrongfellow at 2:42pm on Sat 22nd September 2018.

Geoffrey from Rainbow

Published by bigmal at 4:32pm on Mon 1st October 2018.

Carlos Ezquerra creator of Judge Dredd

Published by bigmal at 7:30pm on Mon 1st October 2018.

Dot Cotton... RIP

Published by bigmal at 11:46pm on Wed 10th October 2018.

Tony Joe White RIP

Published by nuttyprof at 8:04am on Mon 29th October 2018.

Hardy Fox. No one is supposed to know the identities of the band, but apparently he was the co founder and chief writer in The Residents.

Published by Silent Rob at 5:38am on Wed 31st October 2018.

Douglas Rain, voiced HAL the computer in 2001 a space odessey.

Published by Silent Rob at 5:40am on Mon 12th November 2018.

Stan Lee

Published by MissRegaling at 11:21pm on Mon 12th November 2018.

Stan Lee

Published by bigmal at 1:24pm on Tue 13th November 2018.

Richard Baker news reader guy.

Published by bigmal at 1:08pm on Sat 17th November 2018.

Nic Roeg, film director

Published by bad-timing at 9:27pm on Sun 25th November 2018.

President George Bush Snr

Actually a very good guy in many ways.

Published by bigmal at 12:19am on Tue 4th December 2018.

Pete Shelly Buzzcocks only 63

Published by bigmal at 10:25pm on Thu 6th December 2018.

Donald Moffat, played station commander in The Thing
Here's his death scene: https://youtu.be/f3sH8FIvLkU

Published by Silent Rob at 5:39am on Fri 21st December 2018.

Bill Sellars, 80s BBC producer. produced All Creatures Great and Small, Triangle and directed a bit of Dr Who in the early days.

Published by Silent Rob at 5:40am on Fri 21st December 2018.

Paddy Ashdown.

Published by bigmal at 10:30am on Sun 23rd December 2018.

Geoff Emerick top bloke and the greatest ever sound engineer.

Published by bigmal at 4:50pm on Sat 29th December 2018.

June Whitfield

Published by MissRegaling at 8:50pm on Sat 29th December 2018.

June Whitfield

Published by bigmal at 10:09pm on Sat 29th December 2018.

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