There is a "Celebrity Death List" online. Questionable in terms of taste but quite interesting. They try to predict the year's celebrity deaths. Many are very old of course like Patrick MacNee. I doubt Tarby is old enough for inclusion.
I'm hoping I'm not going to be starting a trend of agreeing with Katie Hopkins, but she's right on this one. Grief and mourning should be private things to me, sycophantic "celebrities" posting synthetic tributes on twitter is just narcissistic. Nobody should give a flying **** if you haven't posted some pathetic tribute to a woman they've probably met at most once. Dying shouldn't earn you any more respect than you had in life, but equally I wouldn't want her family to Google her name and turn up loads of forum posts laying into her, no matter how accurate they may be. ...so it looks like I've written this post to say absolutely nothing about the OP. Never mind.
Totally agree DH. It began with Diana and has spread to these ghastly roadside shrines with their petrol station bouquets and teddy bears. I doubt that I would agree with Katie Hopkins on much but I too agree on this one.
We used to run a 'dead pool' at work where you'd chuck a quid in and pick a celeb you thought would be next to snuff it - the Pope, Queen Mother and Mother Theresa were all banned at the time. Bad taste clearly, and we don't do that any more - but I did win almost £25 when Gregory Peck popped his clogs
There was a tribute hour on radio 5 live last night. Had it been Sir David Attenborough, for example, or somebody similar, I'd have listened - maybe even contributed - as Sir David has done for many years. But I'm really sorry, a ginger faux scouse who could never really sing very well and presented naff Saturday night "light entertainment" programmes . No. Just no. RIP Cilla, - but as Jim Bowen of Bullseye fame used to say, "we move on"
She had two more number one hits than me for a start! I wasn't a fan, particularly of those awful ITV shows, but some people liked her, where's the harm? Not sure why she's been rounded on so vociferously.
Cilla came from a very rough area of Liverpool, Scotland Road I believe it's called, where even her boyfriends wouldn't walk her home after dark ! She was a working class girl alright and despite what Carrabuh says, had a naturally thick scouse accent. She was advised to tone it down by all accounts in her early career but later on I don't think she really cared and was reknowned for her 'lorra lorra' catch phrase. If anyone hasn't seen the biopic starring Sheridan Smith, I would advise they do for as well as being an insight into her early life it is also extremely entertaining, Sheridan is fantastic. Don't get me wrong I'm no real fan but it has to be said Cilla could actually sing and her rendition of 'You're my world' is pretty good
