The 8th Annual Celebrity Death Thread 2023

[Moggy]

I spent most of '96 hiding from the truant officer.

[kazanova_Frankenstein]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/67536465

Terry Venables, former England manager, has died aged 80.

One of the all-time great England managers, IMO. Euro 96 was truly a magical time.

That summer was one of the greatest times of my life.

RIP Terry. You couldn't be trusted with money, but who gives a gooseberry fool, Euro '96 was good enough that I'll forgive anything.

1996

[Vermilion]

I spent most of '96 hiding from the truant officer.

[rinks]

Ah strawberry float, Geordie from Killing Joke has died.

[Godzilla]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-67564925

Sticky Vicky: Legendary Benidorm dancer dies aged 80

An entertainer who built up a cult following in Benidorm has died at the age of 80.

Sticky Vicky had a legendary status among Brits travelling to the Spanish resort on holiday.

Her famous X-rated show ran for more than 30 years and she performed six shows a night for six days of the week at one stage.

The performer's daughter announced she had died early on Friday morning in a post on her official Facebook page.

"I can't believe it, she has gone surrounded by her family, with all our love," she said.

"I thank God for being able to always be by her side, I am left with a broken heart."

Sticky Vicky, whose real name was Victoria María Aragüés Gadea, started performing in Benidorm in the 1980s.

She quickly became one of the resort's best-known entertainers for her X-rated show - which involved her pulling different objects from her vagina, most famously ping pong balls.

It would always end with the lights going down before she produced a lit light bulb.

'Put Benidorm on the map'
Vicky became legendary among British tourists and appeared in the ITV comedy show Benidorm, which often made reference to her.

Fin McGrath, from Nuneaton in Warwickshire described the show as "mind-boggling".

"You can't believe that you're actually watching that in front of your eyes. It's just out of this world," the 23-year-old told BBC Newsbeat.

"When you think about Benidorm, she's the main attraction to go out there."

Nicole Goulding, from Chester-le-Street in Durham, also said she made sure she saw Vicky when she went to the resort.

"I think she's like Mrs Benidorm. She's number one and her memory will not be forgotten," she said.

Vicky performed her final show in 2015 but her daughter María Gadea Aragüés has since taken over and performs under the same name.

There are more than 1,500 comments on her Facebook post, with people paying tribute and one saying her mother "put Benidorm on the map".

Her death leaves behind a massive hole.

[Knoyleo]

Ah strawberry float, Geordie from Killing Joke has died.

gooseberry fool.

[Alvin Flummux]

KISSINGER DEAD

Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, the diplomat with the thick glasses and gravelly voice who dominated foreign policy as the United States extricated itself from Vietnam and broke down barriers with China, died Wednesday, his consulting firm said. He was 100.

https://apnews.com/article/henry-kissin ... 219cee77e8

The Yale University historian Greg Grandin, author of the biography Kissinger’s Shadow, estimates that Kissinger’s actions from 1969 through 1976, a period of eight brief years when Kissinger made Richard Nixon’s and then Gerald Ford’s foreign policy as national security adviser and secretary of state, meant the end of between three and four million people. That includes “crimes of commission,” he explained, as in Cambodia and Chile, and omission, like greenlighting Indonesia’s bloodshed in East Timor; Pakistan’s bloodshed in Bangladesh; and the inauguration of an American tradition of using and then abandoning the Kurds.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/p ... 234804748/

[Moggy]

KISSINGER DEAD

Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, the diplomat with the thick glasses and gravelly voice who dominated foreign policy as the United States extricated itself from Vietnam and broke down barriers with China, died Wednesday, his consulting firm said. He was 100.

https://apnews.com/article/henry-kissin ... 219cee77e8

The Yale University historian Greg Grandin, author of the biography Kissinger’s Shadow, estimates that Kissinger’s actions from 1969 through 1976, a period of eight brief years when Kissinger made Richard Nixon’s and then Gerald Ford’s foreign policy as national security adviser and secretary of state, meant the end of between three and four million people. That includes “crimes of commission,” he explained, as in Cambodia and Chile, and omission, like greenlighting Indonesia’s bloodshed in East Timor; Pakistan’s bloodshed in Bangladesh; and the inauguration of an American tradition of using and then abandoning the Kurds.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/p ... 234804748/

Only the good die young.

[Knoyleo]

[Qikz]

[The Watching Artist]

"We've all seen too many body bags and ball sacks"

[Monkey Man]

Great news.

[Octoroc]

Was he eaten alive by ants? I hope so.

[Qikz]

twitter.com/HardDriveMag/status/1730059706629271962

[rinks]

Dean Sullivan (the much-loved Brookside rogue Jimmy Corkhill).

[Xeno]

'tis a great day. Can they bury Kissinger next to Thatcher so I can save time?

[Qikz]

'tis a great day. Can they bury him next to Thatcher so I can save time?

What did Dean Sullivan do to you?

[Preezy]

RIP Henry, what a cheeky scamp he was

[jimbojango]

Shane MacGowan now too - the reaper has been busy.

[Jingle Ord The Way]

I'm sad about Shane passing. Was a fan of The Pogues back in the day and remember seeing their Christmas gig at the Point in Dublin years ago. He was absolutely pissed!
I guess that will be Fairy Tale of New York for Christmas number 1 then