Dead Celebrities Thread

[DoctorStrangelove]

Maureen Sweeney, 100.

Who she?

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/maureen-sw...173835884.html

[JustKeepSwimming]

Holt to Wuntch:

Care To Sit? I'm Sure You'd Like To Take Some Weight Off Your Cloven Hooves

among many others :-)

Makes I sad :-(

He did make the show, and its great that being black and/or gay in a comedy wasn't overused as the butt of jokes.

I think I'm fast approaching that age where all the famous people I knew growing up start dropping seemingly all at once.

[Dactylion]

Andre Braugher: Brooklyn Nine-Nine's Captain Raymond Holt dies aged 61

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-67700088

Holt to Wuntch:

Care To Sit? I'm Sure You'd Like To Take Some Weight Off Your Cloven Hooves

among many others :-)

Makes I sad :-(

[SimonMac]

Andre Braugher: Brooklyn Nine-Nine's Captain Raymond Holt dies aged 61

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-67700088

[Paddy]

Ryan O'Neal, 82.

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/ryan-o-nea...085329460.html

What's up Doc? .

Good pub chain, will they sell it.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Ryan O'Neal, 82.

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/ryan-o-nea...085329460.html

What's up Doc? .

[vetran]

Not a student of history, then?

Zephaniah famously rejected an OBE in 2003 due to the association of such an honour with the British Empire and its history of slavery.

"I've been fighting against empire all my life, fighting against slavery and colonialism all my life"

I didn't comment on the person other than to sympathise with the unpleasant diagnosis, whilst he was a little challenging IMHO I think he definitely contributed to the equality conversation.

[SueEllen]

Benjamin Zephaniah according to some of his official social media accounts

Who's Who

I used to think nurses
Were women,
I used to think police
Were men,
I used to think poets
Were boring,
Until I became one of them.

[Zigenare]

Its in the BBC so it must be false.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-67646607

Oh its in the wail the mark of veracity. Brain Tumour poor sod.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...diagnosis.html

Not a student of history, then?

Zephaniah famously rejected an OBE in 2003 due to the association of such an honour with the British Empire and its history of slavery.

"I've been fighting against empire all my life, fighting against slavery and colonialism all my life"

[vetran]

Benjamin Zephaniah according to some of his official social media accounts

Its in the BBC so it must be false.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-67646607

Oh its in the wail the mark of veracity. Brain Tumour poor sod.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...diagnosis.html