The 7th Annual Celebrity Death Thread 2022

[Skarjo]

Thinking about brave Mikael Gorbachev and how his perestroika and glasnost inspired our Wacaday fun trip to Russia 1990

Incredible sentence.

[Moggy]

Thinking about brave Mikael Gorbachev and how his perestroika and glasnost inspired our Wacaday fun trip to Russia 1990

Incredible sentence.

Try explaining it to anybody born before 1975 or after 1990.

[Vermilion]

Timmy Mallett has always been beyond any kind of rational explanation.

[Moggy]

Timmy Mallett has always been beyond any kind of rational explanation.

To be fair, in these two videos he explains the Kremlin and apartheid far better than the modern BBC could do.

twitter.com/timgatt/status/1564743709815627787

[kazanova_Frankenstein]

I thought Timmy Mallet had died for a minute then.

That feeling when you think Timmy Mallet has died, but it turns out it's just Mikhail Gorbachev

[more heat than light]

BBC presenter Bill Turnbull has died at 66.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-62714293

[Moggy]

[Choclet-Milk]

Bloody hell, he was 66? He looked brilliant for his age.

[Barnsy!]

BBC presenter Bill Turnbull has died at 66.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-62714293

That's a big one

Had anyone heard of Charlbi Dean? Personally hadn't but BBC article makes it seem like she was going to be big....and 32

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-62735665

[Memento Mori]

Peter Straub died a few days ago, probably best known for co-writing The Talisman and Black House with Stephen King. His book Ghost Story is supposed to be fantastic.

[Moggy]

Peter Straub died a few days ago, probably best known for co-writing The Talisman and Black House with Stephen King. His book Ghost Story is supposed to be fantastic.

I don't know anything about him, but the Talisman and Black House are fantastic books.

GR's favourite band agrees with me.

[Rex Kramer]

God I love that track. Ash

[Memento Mori]

King was asked a few months back if he was going to do a third book with Peter Straub and said he'd liked to but Straub was very ill.

[Dual]

The Queen has died rip xxx

Edit: Now confirmed

[LewisD]

The Queen has died rip xxx

Hey! No place holder posts!

[kazanova_Frankenstein]

No dogpiling the Queen.

[satriales]

Not a celebrity but I just found out Shamus Young died in June. I've had his blog bookmarked since he created procedural city screensaver and loved all of his programming articles, but others here might have read his game reviews.

https://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/

[rinks]

Mrs McClusky.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-62879845

[Van Foster]

RIP Bridget the Midget.

[Knoyleo]

Eddie Butler

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/62919134

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