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Posted: 07-03-2012 21:35 Post subject:

Clive Dunn is still alive and doing very well. Thought he'd died a few years ago.

Nancy Reagan and Jimmy Carter, still plugging away.

I remember having a massive argument with the wife about Arthur C Clarke, she was convinced he was dead. He died a few days after, so that nailed that argument.

Amazed to find that Cliff Michelmore is still alive!

Posted: 08-03-2012 10:22 Post subject:

I was sure that George Bush Senior had popped his cloggs a few years back, turns out he's still going. It's odd because I'm sure I saw it on the news, but it can't have been. Confused

Posted: 11-03-2012 11:12 Post subject:

Dick Van Dyke, 86, and his new bride – aged 40
Star married 'on the spur of the moment'
Guy Adams Los Angeles
Sunday 11 March 2012

At his stage in life, social pursuits that risk making your heart start beating like a big brass band are supposed to be strictly off-limits. But Dick Van Dyke doesn't care: he's just become a happy newlywed at the age of 86.

The Hollywood star, who in the 1964 film Mary Poppins gave voice to the most famous mockney accent in the history of entertainment, announced yesterday that he has married his make-up artist, Arlene Silver. She is 40. A "spur of the moment" wedding took place at a chapel near his home in Malibu on 29 February, Van Dyke revealed in a videotaped interview with a show-business website. Embracing his new spouse, he declared: "I'm looking forward to a long and happy marriage."

The actor's nuptials fall into a grand Hollywood tradition of so-called "May to December" romances. The wedding was witnessed by a few close friends, along with Ms Silver's family, said a spokesman. Van Dyke's four children did not choose to attend. "I got married on 29 February, kind of on the spur of the moment," he told a videographer from the website RumorFix. "We decided that a leap day would be the best day to do it. Her name was Arlene Silver. She's now Arlene Silver Van Dyke."

Van Dyke was last married in 1948, in a ceremony broadcast live on the television show Bride and Groom. He had four children with his first wife, Margie Willett, but they divorced in the mid-1980s after a long separation.

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News of the marriage has raised eyebrows among commentators, who point out that the new Mrs Van Dyke wasn't even born when her husband's eponymous prime-time TV show – the source of much of his fortune – was launched in the early 1970s.

Several newspapers borrowed the headline "Gor Blimey!" from Van Dyke's catchphrase as Bert the chimney sweep in Mary Poppins – the movie that first propelled him to international stardom.

The publicist Bob Palmer, a longstanding friend of Van Dyke, told the Associated Press: "I've never seen him happier. She adds a lot to his life."

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/news/dick-van-dyke-86-and-his-new-bride--aged-40-7555064.html

Gor Blimey indeed! Cool

Posted: 18-03-2012 16:58 Post subject:

For a while now I've thought Noel Edmonds was dead. Finally he appear on the Mail website totally alive. I must have mistaken him for another TV-show host.

And of course, it was Jeremy Beadle I was thinking about.

A search on the net finally revealed Jeremy Beadle. Found it after wading through 10 pages of news about Kristian Digby, Mark Speight, Natasha Collins and Angie Dowds.

Posted: 18-03-2012 17:09 Post subject:

Noel Edmonds is on telly these days with 'Deal or No Deal'. I guess you probably don't get it on Norwegian TV? You're so lucky.

Posted: 12-11-2012 02:23 Post subject:

At the end of 2002, I would swear up and down I saw a video tribute to Robert Palmer, who had died that year.

A few months later, when people kept mentioning how surprised they were by his death, how young he was, etc. I thought yes it's tragic, but why is everyone talking about it now, he died months ago! Oops. Embarassed

Since then I've tried to puzzle out what exactly I saw in that video tribute, or thought I saw. It's a mystery. I've searched for the video, I've searched lists of dead celebrities for someone who I might have mistaken for Robert Palmer, but no dice. Well, it wouldn't be the first time I'd seen something on television that hadn't happened yet. Confused

Posted: 13-11-2012 20:31 Post subject:

Jeremy Beadle is dead?

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Posted: 14-11-2012 13:34 Post subject:

oh dear

Posted: 14-11-2012 13:35 Post subject:

He'd have been quite young.

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Posted: 25-11-2012 16:51 Post subject: clive not alive

Posted: 07-01-2013 21:37 Post subject:

I'm watching...

The Many Faces of... - Series 2
- 2. Stanley Baxter

Celebrating the extraordinary career of entertainer Stanley Baxter, whose shows captivated huge audiences for twenty years before the cost of his epics priced him off our screens. Tracing his origins to Scotland's variety and review stages, his story is told by admiring fans including Michael Grade, Barry Cryer, Bill Oddie and Gregor Fisher.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01pvb9q/The_Many_Faces_of..._Series_2_Stanley_Baxter/

Available until
8:59PM Sat, 12 Jan 2013

Now I'd assumed that he was dead, but apparently not! According to Wiki, he was born in May 1926, so he's now pushing 87.

A great entertainer!