Gary Rhodes died of bleeding in the brain, family has released it after everyone started making up shit.
https://www.theguardian.com/food/201...box=1574952017
Which only half answers the question, cue even more speculation.
I mean, I don't care how he died but that is a bloody odd thing to announce and then just leave it there.
It says he hit his head and got bleeding of the brain. It happens all the time. What's the mystery?
Where does it say he hit his head?
I saw 'head injury' in the headline and disconnected it from the specific bleeding assuming one caused the other despite not being quoted. My bad.
In which case I'm totally in on a massive insurance settlement incoming.
Jamie Oliver tweeted that he'd had a bad fall, literally straight after it was announced. I don't understand all the confusion.
EDIT: looked it up; was insta; he then edited it.
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Derek Acorah.
I wonder if he'll send anyone some messages from beyond the grave.
Not even a short illness for Derek. A 'very brief illness'. It's coming for us all and it's coming tomorrow.
"An instant illness", coming soon to a celebrity near you.
He was a beast of a drummer.
That's awful. Rush are up there with my all time favourite bands.
That is genuinely shocking. An absolute legend in the musical and drumming worlds.
Rush are criminally underrated.
Should I have heard of Rush?
Heard of them but I don't recall actually hearing any of their music.
I would imagine that most people have heard Tom Sawyer.
The thing with Peart was that not only was he an absolute drum god but he also wrote the majority of the lyrics for the band when he joined as Lee and Lifeson weren't interested in that aspect as much. On top of all his he had a really tragic personal life where he lost both his wife and daughter, travelled around the world on bikes and found new purpose in life with his music. A true legend.
The pizza lad was telling me about his trips the other day as I was waiting for my order. Pretty cool.
I could never get into Rush. I have a lot of time for proper progressive rock wanker bands who embraced the excesses and stupidity of it all. Rush always felt to me like they were falling between not wanting to do that but not being heavy enough not to be that, so it all just sounded a bit po-faced and boring.
Tom Sawyer is quality, but in general I agree that they were a bit dull compared to most of their peers.
BBC News - Terry Jones: Monty Python star dies aged 77
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-51209197
Hopefully any resulting Monty Python sales bounce will keep Cleese off our screens until it's his turn.
The most fitting of tributes I think we can all agree.
Someone buy that man a fridge.
He'd rather you bought his.
RIP Nicholas Parsons. One small positive to come from his passing is this absolutely amazing anecdote that's been doing the rounds:
That's great.
Kirk Douglas.
103, what an innings.
Indeed. I wonder where that puts him in the list of oldest people ever?
Norman Lloyd (played the headmaster in Dead Poets Society) is still going at 105. Not sure if there are any older 'famous' people than that.
Thousands of people get to 100 or more, 103 isn't going to be very high on the list. He must have done the last 20 or so on spite alone which is pretty impressive.
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I read somewhere once that past a hundred the chances of you croaking double by the year. But then something similar presumably applies even earlier.
Oldest living person currently is 117. That's a solid effort.
I see how I could have worded my original point much better.
A cursory Google (which I'm going to believe because it's more fun that way) tells me that one in three people born today will live to over 100. I wonder if there's some upper limit to this sort of thing or will diminishing returns mean we top out at 150 or something.
Human tortoises