Celebrity deaths

Sort of a claim to fame here. What a sad story - I know too well what Will means by having to walk away at times.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8591179/Tragic-Instagram-post-Youngs-brother-picture-pair-children.html?ito=push-notification&ci=26396&si=10306854

Freedom wrote:Sort of a claim to fame here. What a sad story - I know too well what Will means by having to walk away at times.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8591179/Tragic-Instagram-post-Youngs-brother-picture-pair-children.html?ito=push-notification&ci=26396&si=10306854

Very sad indeed. Irrespective of the details of this particular tragic case, I think the policies of the last four or five months of so will have a direct effect on mental health and also physical health. What has struck me, and indeed others, is how particularly unbothered our leaders are - or appear to be - about the negative consequences of the measures taken to allegedly curb what they describe as a 'pandemic'. The negative consequences of 'lock-down', of not going to work, or college or school, not seeing family and so on.

As though no-one has anything else to worry about apart from a virus that in the vast majority of cases will cause no serious ill-effects. How long are people supposed to be obsessed about a virus that will probably not affect them? A few more months? A few years?

Given that the vast majority of people who were very ill or tragically died with coronavirus (as opposed to from it) were either very old and/or had serious underlying conditions then the statistics are quite meaningless. How do we know those people wouldn't have died anyway? It is true that there appears to have been a spike in the death figures for a few months but figures returned to normal weeks ago so why are leaders still behaving as if we are in the midst of a 'pandemic'?

What else is happening that we aren't being told about? (Apart from a rise in mental health illness, domestic violence and death including suicides.)

News just coming in that Dame Diana Rigg has died.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-54106509

One of life's characters. I shouldn't admit to ever watching Celebrity Big Brother but I saw the one where she and her former daughter-in-law Brigitte Nielsen were there together.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-54247152?at_custom2=facebook_page&at_campaign=64&at_custom1=%5Bpost+type%5D&at_medium=custom7&at_custom3=BBC+News&at_custom4=B6F45202-FCB7-11EA-A8CB-77B296E8478F&fbclid=IwAR18Jd21s5Aveqb12sMu6iYKqFlxPOwQ-bWCljcP4R35QexeGLCeFvj5PKM&fbclid=IwAR1wyfrVk1SJc4qYahAIiXg2loTjr6mNFK6TxvQ-f97G4rHqtxGcrAOO_jQ

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-54350248

The song was a favourite with me before it was hijacked by feminists.

Blast from the past! Loved that song.

A talented singer songwriter.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-54353266

Son of a celebrity anyway - very sad.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8793457/Only-Fools-Horses-star-Nicholas-Lyndhursts-son-Archie-dead.html?ito=push-notification&ci=37376&si=422748

An anniversary one - John Lennon would have been 80 today and here's the song he wrote about his son Sean who is 45 today.

Not a celebrity of course but an infamous name. Good riddance.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-54874713

Could we not be positive and have a discussion thread Celebrity Births?

We could also discuss the 'unusual' names some celebrities give their offspring.

On the 15th anniversary of George Best's death, one of the few other footballers I've heard of.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/54810392

A merciful release.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-55269649?fbclid=IwAR1LdzIP_hC8sYBbCuwydPSIcl7g-PZT35tTifeqBu6K3EIJSH4Xy9fVIUU

Eve Branson has died of coronavirus. She was a mere ninety-six years old.

Richard's mum I assume? A good innings.

Freedom wrote:Richard's mum I assume? A good innings.

Yes. Richard's mum, Atlas Mountains hotelier and board member of the International Centre for Missing and Exploited Children. Well, she was, anyway.

Freedom wrote:https://news.sky.com/story/captain-sir-tom-moore-dies-aged-100-after-contracting-coronavirus-and-pneumonia-12205073?fbclid=IwAR01oCGbCjhn_bLzZfYQvRaaWBH7jqpT6k1TcKyj9RBwoOWSZ4YJRD5kcbQ

How very sad.    Such a lovely man with a great sense of humour.  He's the grandfather everyone would want to have.

Today at 6pm the Prime Minister is asking for us all to go out and clap for him at 6pm.......... he deserves that at least from us all.

Rest in peace. Captain Sir Tom Moore, you were an inspiration.

https://news.sky.com/story/bay-city-rollers-singer-les-mckeown-dies-aged-65-12284004

Will anyone admit to have been a Roller maniac?

Some of us may have fond memories of Nick Kamen who has died aged 59.