Be Excellent To Each Other

Let's hope we can do better than this year (or, er, not, I guess).
Name ten celebrities you think are going to die in 2011, two of which must be 50 or under on the first of January.

Well, I'll play, by pretty much repeating my stubbornly-living 2010 list:

1. Fats Domino
2. Liz Smith
3. Steve Jobs
4. Dame Vera Lynn
5. Richard Attenborough
6. Ravi Shankar
7. Claude Choules
8. The Duke of Edingborough
Wildcards
9. Kerry Katona
10. Lindsay Lohan

By maddie do you mean McCann? If so, you'll have to have evidence she was alive at the start of the year and died during it. Also, probably not a long shot (apart from the alive at the start of the year bit).

This is true.
I shall amend.

It doesn't have to be a long-shot though, does it? Just that they're young.

Claud Choules is not a celebrity, is he?

Depends which rules you're playing by. Under-50 is often one, but it's more in the spirit of the game to not pick a 'Longshot' that has, say, terminal cancer, regardless of age.

But, equally, it really doesn't matter.

1. Christopher Hitchen
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WILDCARDS
9. Julian Assange
10.

gona, have to come back to fill the others - but wanted to bag a conspiracy theorists dream come true with Mr W Leaks.

Hush!

He's certainly famous. I could change the title to "famous deathlist", because it's quite hard to define Celebrity.

1. Sean Connery
2. Margaret Thatcher
3. Kris Kristofferson
4. Clint Eastwood
5. Carl Reiner
6. George Bush (Sr)
7. Lauren Bacall
8. B B King

Wildcards

9. Pete Doherty
10. Amy Winehouse

1. Thatcher. (age)
2. Assanage (he just dropped dead officer)
3. Sheila Hancock (age)
4. Maggie Smith (cancer)
5. Michael Douglas (cancer)
6. Afshan Azad (honor killing)
7. Jeff Hardy (takes meths jumps off building)
8. Kurt Angle (roid based heart attack)
9 The Rock (roid based heart attack, no really http://www.tmz.com/2010/11/15/the-rock- ... ed-buff/3/ )
10. Lindsay Lohan (killed by stalker, body discovered in his freezer months later)

Assanage is easily young enough to be a wildcard.

Also, at The Rock.

6/10 of mine are under 50

edit: indeed at the rock, he's gone done and ruined himself.

This year I generally went for people I kinda wouldn't have minded dying and scored nothing. Therefore, for the forthcoming year I will go for people who I will be upset about dying in a sickening pursuit of points.

1. Sir Christopher Lee
2. Mr T
3. Ric Flair
4. The Queen
5. Geoffrey Palmer
6. Ozzy Osbourne
7. Sir David Attenborough
8. Tony Benn

Wildcards

9. Jessica Alba
10. Tom Hardy (kickstarting a new Batman villain curse)

ooh that's a point, if she does go it will be about a week before the wedding.

1. Mick Hucknell
2. The Thatcher
3. Joan Collins
4. Henry Cooper
5. Roger Moore
6. Bobby Charlton
7. Bruce Forsythe
8. Prince Phillip
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9. Colin Farrell
10. Ricky Hatton

1. Betty White
2. Patrick Moore (Boo)
3. Hitchens (Boo)
4. Thatch (I suspect she will live forever though)
5. Ken Dodd (Boo)
6. Al Davis (Although there is no medical evidence that he is actually alive)
7. Aretha Franklin
8. Fidel Castro

9. Casey Stoner (was going F1 but bikes seem more dangerous)
10. Gazza

1. Your Mum
2. Your Mum
3. Your Mum
4. Your Mum
5. Your Mum
6. Your Mum
7. Your Mum
8. Your Mum

Wildcards

9. Your Mum
10. Your Mum jokes*

* - Except, of course, that they're far too old to be a wildcard.

A double at least!

Mr Chris's Death List O' Fun '11
1: Margaret Thatcher (it has to happen some time. It's like lottery numbers - I can't change it now)
2: The Queen (ditto)
3: Elizabeth Taylor (ditto)
4: Christopher Hitchens (easy call)
5: Joan Rivers (more hope than expectation)
6: Abdul Al-Magrahi (it has to happen some time, the Socts said so)
7: Ronnie Biggs (please please please)
8: Fidel Castro (One of Assange's ex-lovers will have him extradited)
Young n Reckless Wildcards
9: Katie Holmes (of THETANS)
10: Amy Winehouse (wishful thinking)

Joan Rivers won't die. She'll just gradually degrade over a period of 10,000 years.

I'm going with the same list as last year, but changing the wildcards

DavPaz's Surprisingly old Hitlist
1. Robert Downey Junior
2. Bruce Willis
3. Bruce Forsyth
4. Jeffrey from Rainbow
5. Barack Obama
6. Keanu Reeves
7. George Foreman
8. Tony Balir
These cards be WILD!
Lewis Hamilton
James Corden

I fully expect to win. Fully

People are about eleventy-squillion times more likely to die sat at their desk than Lewis Hamilton is when he's in his racing car.

And when he's not he has bodyguards and shit.

Body guards won't stop spontaneous combustion.

Have you seen that Reebok advert? He runs all over a fucking dangerous environment. He gonna slip, even with those hideous fucking shoes

BUMP!
Okay, well this year I predicted it would be a bad year for sports commentators, and then fabulously failed to pick Bill McLaren, so next year I'm going to predict it'll be a bad year for old politicians (and then watch in bemusement as about eight million of the ones I don't pick keel over instead of the four I have picked).

1. Thatcher
2. George Bush Sr.
3. Helmut Kohl
4. David Owen
5. Patrick Moore
6. BB King
7. Gina Lollobrigida
8. Liz Taylor
Wildcards!
Lindsay Lohan
Russell Brand

I can't be arsed to play this, because my list would be full of wrestlers, and that would make me sad.

1. Thatch
2. Bryan Ferry
3. Camilla Parker-Bowles
4. Dick Cheney
5. Shirley Williams
6. Rev. Ian Paisley
7. Carol Vorderman
8. Norman Tebbit
Wildcards!
9. Geert Wilders
10. Zakk Wylde

1. Thatcher
2. Patrick Moore
3. Ernest Borgnine
4. Christopher Hitchens
5. Dick Cheney
6. Gordon Banks
7. Murray Walker
8. Gary Busey

Wildcards

9. Pete Doherty
10. Cheryl Cole (in a hair extension related accident)

1 Kim jong ill
2 Thatcher
3 Obama
4 The Queen
5 Stevie Wonder
6 Biggins
7 John motson
8 Des Lynam

Wildcards

Craig David
Justin Bieber.

1. Clint Eastwood
2. Peter Falk
3. Jack Nicholson
4. Michael Douglas
5. Jimmy Carter
6. June Brown (Dot Cotton)
7. Dick Van Dyke
8. Hugh Hefner
WILD! Cards?
9. Vanessa Hudgens
10. Victoria Beckham

Shut up.

Double shut up.

Pete Postlethwaite. Shit.

Ah crap

One of my favourite actors to watch.

His performance as Obidiah Hakeswill was one the most memorable things for me of the Sharpe TV series. Age of Stupid is crushingly amazing stuff too.

One of my favourite actors, and a thoroughly nice chap to boot. My Dad and I chatted with him over a couple of pints in the Three Tuns in Bishop's Castle a couple of years ago when my Mum was in the local hospital I didn't know he was only 64 though, my Dad's older - which is surprising to me.

How was he only 64? He looked about 90!

I know! And he's looked 90 for at least 10 years.

Also...

1 - Kirk Douglas
2 - Kim Jong Il
3 - Jerry Lewis
4 - Nelson Mandela
5 - Oscar Niemeyer
6 - Ronnie Biggs
7 - Dick Cheney
8 - Patrick Moore
Cards of wildingness!
9 - Lindsay Lohan
10 - Rupert Grint

Precisely how bloody young are you supposed to look at 64 anyway. It's not young, 64, and unless you've got good genes, most people don't look like Cliff Richard at 64. Even Cliff Richard doesn't look like he should either.

I think the point with Pete Postlethwaite was that he's looked weathered and old for the last 20 years so he doesn't appear to have aged so much as ripened. I don't think he looked particularly ancient for 64, it's just he's looked that way for a long time so it was easy to assume he was older.

Bah! That's a shame. I enjoyed seeing his wang in Among Giants.

Wow, that's a bit of a shame but not a surprise. In May this year I was in Dorset overseeing the removals at my mother-in-law's house and while there, chatting to the removals men they were talking about the people they'd done. Gerry Rafferty came up as someone they had moved to Dorset over Christmas the previous year and the guy commented on what a sorry state he was in.

You know things have been bad when someone's obituary spends more time mentioning their struggles with alcohol than their actual achievements and contributions to history.

No-one likes a quitter.

bbc.co.uk/news/mobile/entertainment-arts-12117749

2010, innit?

Just read about Gerry Rafferty in the paper

Would it be an idea to keep a running list of all the deceased slebs on the front page, for historical purposes.

Isn't this ghoulish enough already?