Rolling Obituary Thread: 2018

and another TV hero of the '60s, Chuck McCann

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/chuck-mccann-dead-comic-actor-kids-tv-host-was-83-1024097

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfZzz_QABws

I don't know if I've told this story here before but my mother and sister, at one point, thought I was Dale Winton's boyfriend and phoned me up to ask me about it. What had happened was that my mother was getting her hair done and was flicking through the latest issue of Hello, or whatever, and there was a paparazzi style feature on Dale Winton's latest love interest, with a snap of him sitting outside a cafe in Primrose Hill with a pale, shaven headed man in a long coat, not at all his type you might think. My mother was so convinced it was me, sharing a cappuccino with Dale, she bought a copy of the magazine and showed my sister and then they phoned me to ask me if I had anything to tell them. Also Primrose Hill is in North London and anywhere in North London is near to where I live, as far as my mother is concerned. Anyway, having convinced them I wasn't Dale Winton's boyfriend, I went down to a newsagent to see if I could find a copy of this incriminating magazine and, sure enough, the guy did look very like me and was even dressed like me. Nonetheless I have never been Dale Winton's boyfriend.

i’m sorry for your loss tom

possibly inappropriate lol!

I lol'ed too. Laughter through the tears.

aw, he seemed a nice type :(

I think you may have found one or two things to disagree with him on politically, Calz. But out of respect for Tom's grief here's probably not the place to go into them.

I didn't really plan to tbh. Quite an unnecessary post Tim, really ffs!

I meant for me to go into them rather than you. But please accept my heartfelt apologies anyway.

soz it thought it was a passive-aggressive dig, Tim!

hey it's been a rough day for us all

Finding out H Asperger cooperated with the T2 program has been like an RIP for my partner today, she's even taken down his quote from her wall.

T4 program, even, different terminators.

I've just been made aware of this article Dale Winton wrote about Trump during the 2016 and it really is something. https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/dale-winton-donald-trump-is-he-hero-or-villain/"> https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/dale-winton-donald-trump-is-he-hero-or-villain/

lol! what a dick!

oh dale! ;_;

he is now dead to me

As a tribute to the great man I'm going to shop-lift some expensive brand maple syrup in Asda later.

Lol! I genuinely thought Tom was crying earlier. I think I have a bit off an Aspergic humour bypass at times!

can't believe Dale Winton liked an orange bloke with funny hair

Do you mind, I'm not orange.

sorry i don't follow Hello!

can't believe Dale Winton liked an orange bloke with funny hair

wouldn't have thought ian paisley was his type tbh

bruno sammartino

a sad loss for the city of pittsburgh

i'm glad someone saw that through the obscure Brit figures that are clogging this thread now

i'm posting more Chuck McCann

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5g4YW-6HsA

Yes, there's never any obscure Yank figures on this thread. ^^^^

ours are better

At dying?

Sometime in early 2000 I stayed overnight in a cheap hotel in Central London. It had been a pretty grim day for me and I was feeling miserable. I sat down on the bed and switched on the TV, and it happened to be some Dale Winton (possibly Lottery related) programme. Not my kind of thing but for some reason it cheered me up a bit.

^^^on the tombstone

That obit from some newspaper above had a Euro millions advert in the middle of it...

you've gotta be in it to win it!

just reading Dale's wikipedia earlier. His father died on the day of his bar mitzvah and his mother died from suicide after suffering depression when he was 21 :(

his mother was an actress and i think the last film she was in was eric sykes' 'rhubarb'

this was good: https://www.theringer.com/tv/2018/4/17/17248358/harry-anderson-obituary-night-court-magic

here's a harry anderson magic special from 1986.
https://youtu.be/JlthbJTv39U

Avicii. 28 years old.

what?!?

Link.

jeez, poor guy

wtf

Oh no.

Fuck. to get pancreatitis from drinking too much in your mid-20s seems insane to me. Really sad

I've not seen it, but Netflix had a new documentary about him out a couple of weeks ago? I saw the press release at the time, and it said something about how those close to him sometimes feared he'd be a member of the "club of 27" (dying at 27 like Joplin, Cobain etc).

So then the doc has a happy ending.

jeez louise eric 😳

This will add an undeserved poignancy to 'I Took A Pill In Ibiza'

I follow some Swedish news Twitter accounts because I'm studying the language, and there are comments coming out from the Swedish prime minister and the crown prince and princess and people like that - this is like a full-on national tragedy, it seems.

rip aviici

I'm like 7 months older than he was, it's almost unfathomable to me that in the same time I've been alive, someone else managed to become an incredibly successful performing artist, retire, and (apparently) drink themselves to death. I don't have that much energy.